Most researchers use laboratory or collection techniques that are standardized and there is always much debate about which standards to adopt. However, new and better techniques are continually found. It is practically impossible, and indeed not very useful, to try and restrict regarding what kind of reagents or traps a researcher might use, or any other means of studying their organisms of interest.
In 2004, as part of an initiative by the Ministry of Science and Technology, two Amazon-based research institutions Belem’s Goeldi Museum (MPEG) and the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) in Manaus put together the Program for Research on Biodiversity (PPBio) whose mission was to develop a strategy to:
The PPBio/CENBAM Biotecas are online collections of images and other types of media such as videos, sound recordings and references, with information from various groups of organisms. They are useful not only for the study and conservation of biodiversity, but also to provide information on the groups concerned to the general public.
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