MelastomaTRAITs 1.0: A database of functional traits in Melastomataceae, a large pantropical angiosperm family.

The recent availability of open-access repositories of functional traits has revolutionized trait-based approaches in ecology and evolution. Nevertheless, the underrepresentation of tropical regions and lineages remains a pervasive bias in plant functional trait databases, which constrains large-scale assessments of plant ecology, evolution, and biogeography. Here, we present MelastomaTRAITs 1.0, a comprehensive and updatable database of functional traits for the pantropical Melastomataceae, the ninth-largest angiosperm family with 177 genera and more than 5800 species. Melastomataceae encompass species with a wide diversity of growth forms (herbs, shrubs, trees, epiphytes, and woody climbers), habitats (including tropical forests, savannas, grasslands, and wetlands from sea level to montane areas above the treeline), ecological strategies (from pioneer, edge-adapted and invasive species to shade-tolerant understory species), geographic distribution (from microendemic to continental-wide distribution), reproductive, pollination, and seed dispersal systems. MelastomaTRAITs builds on 581 references, such as taxonomic monographs, ecological research, and unpublished data, and includes four whole-plant traits, six leaf traits, 11 flower traits, 18 fruit traits, and 27 seed traits for 2520 species distributed in 144 genera across all 21 tribes. Most data come from the Neotropics where the family is most species-rich. Miconieae (the largest tribe) contains the highest number of trait records (49.6%) and species (41.1%) records. The trait types with the most information in the database were whole-plant traits, flowers, and leaf traits. With the breadth of functional traits recorded, our database helps to fill a gap in information for tropical plants and will significantly improve our capacity for large-scale trait-based syntheses across levels of organization, plant-animal interactions, regeneration ecology, and thereby support conservation and restoration programs. There are no copyright restrictions on the dataset; please cite this data paper when reusing the data.

A violência obstétrica praticada contra mulheres negras no SUS / Obstetric violence against black women in SUS / Violencia obstétrica contra las mujeres negras en el SUS

Este artigo examina a violência obstétrica contra mulheres negras no Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), partindo de experiências de estágio e extensão universitária em Psicologia, em maternidades públicas, de distintos níveis de complexidade, coadunadas a pesquisas de Iniciação Científica Pibic/CNPq. Em nossa cultura, as mulheres sempre foram corpos para reprodução e, há poucos séculos, passaram a ser subjugadas ao saber médico - sobretudo, da obstetrícia e ginecologia. A expropriação das mulheres, de seus corpos, de seus protagonismos reprodutivos, ratificada pelos homens da elite branca - cientistas - impactaram na assistência a elas prestada. O SUS, marcado por princípios como universalidade, equidade e integralidade, reproduz opressões, discriminações, violências e violações sobre os corpos femininos, especialmente sobre aqueles cujos tons se distanciam do modelo dominante. Para evidenciar a reprodução de racismo e machismos estruturais no SUS, tomamos a violência obstétrica como analisador.

This article examines obstetric violence against black women in SUS, starting from internship and university extension experiences in Psychology, in public maternity hospitals of different levels of complexity, coadunted to PIBIC/CNPq Scientific Initiation research. In our culture, women have always been bodies for reproduction and for centuries they have been subjugated to medical knowledge - especially obstetrics and gynecology. The expropriation of women from their bodies, their reproductive protagonisms, ratified by the men of the white elite - scientists - has impacted the assistance provided to them. The Unified Health System, marked by principles such as universality, equity and integrality, reproduces oppressions, discrimination, violence and violations over women's bodies, especially over those whose shades are far from the dominant model. In order to evidence the reproduction of racism and structural machisms in SUS, we take obstetric violence as an analyzer.

Este artículo examina la violencia obstétrica contra las mujeres negras en el SUS, a partir de experiencias de pasantía y extensión universitaria en Psicología, en maternidades públicas de diferentes niveles de complejidad, coadyuvadas a la investigación de la Iniciación Científica del PIBIC/CNPq. En nuestra cultura, las mujeres siempre han sido cuerpos para la reproducción y durante siglos han estado sometidas a los conocimientos médicos - especialmente de obstetricia y ginecología. La expropiación de las mujeres de sus cuerpos, de sus protagonismos reproductivos, ratificada por los hombres de la élite blanca - científicos - repercutió en la asistencia que se les prestó. El Sistema Único de Salud, marcado por principios como la universalidad, la equidad y la integralidad, reproduce la opresión, la discriminación, la violencia y las violaciones sobre el cuerpo de las mujeres, especialmente sobre aquellas cuyos matices están lejos del modelo dominante. Para resaltar la reproducción del racismo y el machismo estructural en el SUS, tomamos la violencia obstétrica como un analizador.