Using taxonomic treatments to assess an author's career: the impactful Jocélia Grazia.

Here we present a descriptive analysis of the bibliographic production of the world-renowned heteropterist Dr. Jocélia Grazia and comments on her taxonomic reach based on extracted taxonomic treatments. We analyzed a total of 219 published documents, including scientific papers, scientific notes, and book chapters. Additionally, we applied the Plazi workflow to extract taxonomic treatments, images, tables, treatment citations and materials citations, and references from 75 different documents in accordance with the FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse) principles and made them available on the Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR), hosted on Zenodo, and on TreatmentBank. We found that Dr. Grazia published 200 new names, including species (183) and genera (17), and 1,444 taxonomic treatments in total. From these, 104 and 581, respectively, were extracted after applying the Plazi Workflow. A total of 544 figures, 50 tables, 2,242 references, 2,107 materials citations, and 1,101 treatment citations were also extracted. In order to make her publications properly citable and accessible, we assigned DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) for all publications that lacked this persistent identifier, including those that were not processed (88 in total), therefore enhancing the open-access share of her publications.

Diversity and abundance of the benthic macrofauna in lotic environments from the central region of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil / Diversidade e abundância da macrofauna bentônica em ambientes lóticos da região central do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

The benthic fauna plays an important role in the trophic web and the nutrient flow of limnetic environments. This work aimed to study the diversity and abundance of the benthic invertebrates in four watercourses in the central region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Sampling was done seasonally at each site, with a long-handled net at the margins (banks) and streambed, from November 2001 through September 2002. Margalef richness, Shannon diversity and Pielou evenness indices were applied to the data analysis. A total of 58 families and three other major taxa (Hirudinea, Oligochaeta and Copepoda) of invertebrates were identified. The highest values of diversity and abundance were recorded at the margins of the rivers, in the same pattern found in other tropical and subtropical regions. This is the first inventory of benthic invertebrates from central region of Rio Grande do Sul, which will be important for future studies of the diversity and conservation of this fauna, because human alterations of the environment have already begun.

A fauna bentônica tem um importante papel nos ambientes límnicos, fazendo parte da cadeia trófica e participando do fluxo de nutrientes. O objetivo deste trabalho foi estudar a diversidade e a abundância dos invertebrados bentônicos em quatro cursos de água da região central do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Amostragens foram realizadas sazonalmente com uma rede de mão (puçá) nas margens e nos leitos dos arroios em cada local de coleta, entre Novembro de 2001 e Setembro de 2002. Para analisar os dados foram aplicados os índices de riqueza de Margalef, diversidade de Shannon e uniformidade de Pielou. Um total de 58 famílias e três outros grandes taxa (Hirudinea, Oligochaeta e Copepoda) de invertebrados foram identificados. Os maiores valores de diversidade e abundância foram encontrados nas margens dos arroios, seguindo um padrão verificado para regiões tropicais e subtropicais. Este é o primeiro inventário de invertebrados bentônicos da região central do Estado Rio Grande do Sul, e servirá de base para futuros estudos sobre a diversidade e a conservação dessa fauna frente às alterações antrópicas no ambiente.