Fig 1.
Research infrastructure and biodiversity data usage in Brazil.
(A) Distribution of Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP) metropolitan networks (December 2014). (B) Distribution of speciesLink’s data providers (per institution) and amount of records shared (December 2014). (C) speciesLink data usage (sessions) across Brazil (2014). Image credit: Eduardo G. Baena.
Fig 2.
The evolution of Brazilian flora primary data available online and species described by Brazilian specialists.
(A) Growth of the Virtual Herbarium from May 2003 to Feb 2015, showing the monthly average of online and georeferenced records; the orange line shows the evolution of the number of datasets. (B) Number of angiosperms species described by Brazilian (orange line) and foreign (grey line) scientists from 1990 to 2013.