Caça exploratória de aves no Brasil: uma análise cienciométrica.

Abstract

Bird hunting is a common habit in Brazil, which has become a cultural activity and is growing economically both nationally and internationally. One of the reasons for this is the great biodiversity that the country presents. And with this, the unbridled hunting of both birds and other animals has been worrying Brazilian environmentalists for putting several species on the line of extinction. As a way to evaluate this worrying activity, the scientometric indexes are ideal to follow the effort in scientific publications on the subject and can be used as a way to better know the relevance of research. The objective of this research was to demonstrate quantitatively and qualitatively the reality in which research in the field of ornithological hunting is found in recent years in Brazil. A survey of articles from the last five years was carried out in the Capes, Springer Link Scientometrics, and Scielo databases and in the Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia, because they are databases with a wide range of scientific publications and the journal because it deals with ornithological research. it was therefore concluded that the results were that there was a slight increase in publications on exploratory hunting, published in journals with qualis of national relevance and in institutions with scores considered excellent by qualis Capes, with the majority of the works having an approach focused on the species conservation.