“Sucupira branca” is a plant found in the Brazilian Cerrado and is adapted to low fertility soils, and its fruit extract has anti-inflammatory, healing, antiulcerogenic, antimicrobial, cercaricidal, leishmanicidal and antioxidant activities. Furthermore, it provides protection against oxidative stres...
Poppiana dentata (Randall, 1840) is widely distributed throughout riverine habitats in Trinidad. However, there is a scarcity of information on the biology of this species. This study provides the first baseline examination that describes growth aspects for P. dentata. Juvenile crabs were obtained from b...
El objetivo de la investigación fue identificar la riqueza de especies de árboles en etapas de sucesión ecoló-gica de áreas perturbadas del ecosistema bosque tropical montano nuboso (btmn) del altiplano occidental de Guatemala. Con el propósito de generar un registro de referencia para promover acc...
Comparisons between the implications of commercial and recreational fisheries for estuarine conservation have been a topic of debate. A review on the available data from Guaratuba Bay, Southern Brazil, identifies six threats for conservation, other than those concerning the fishing effort on target resou...
Mining activities have significantly affected the Neotropical freshwater ichthyofauna, the most diverse in the world. However, no study has systematized knowledge on the subject. In this review, we assembled information on the main impacts of mining of crude oil, gold, iron, copper, and bauxite on aquati...
High rates of deforestation, either in the past or the present, affect many of the ecological processes in streams. Integrating deforestation history and the current landscape structure enhances the evaluation of ecological effects of land-use change. This is especially true when contemporary landscape c...
The IUCN Red List (RL) provides high-quality conservation assessments for individual species, yet the rate and scale of environmental deterioration globally challenges the conservation community to develop expedited methods for risk assessment. Here we compare threat assessments for 3,001 species of Neot...
La fenología estudia los cambios estacionales en los ciclos de vida de los organismos. Una utilidad de la fenología, es que permite establecer periodos en que se pueden colectar semillas para programas de restauración ecológica. Por lo que, de abril de 2017 a mayo de 2019, en el volcán Tacaná, San ...
Prunus/crecimiento & desarrollo,
Bosques,
Flores/crecimiento & desarrollo,
Frutas/crecimiento & desarrollo,
Semillas/crecimiento & desarrollo,
Volcanes,
Árboles/crecimiento & desarrollo,
Especies en Peligro de Extinción,
Guatemala,
Fenómenos Fisiológicos de las Plantas,
Conservación de los Recursos Naturales/métodos,
Reproducción,
Estaciones del Año,
Clima Tropical
The expansion of agriculture in the southeast Amazon-Savanah transitional area has greatly decreased forest cover and influenced stream structure and functioning. We assessed the effects of forest cover loss on the integrity of streams by assessing stream physical conditions and the taxonomic and functio...
Objetivo: Conhecer o que vem sendo descrito sobre a saúde, sustentabilidade e meio ambiente. Métodos: Revisão integrativa realizada de março a abril de 2019. Os termos: saúde, sustentabilidade e meio ambiente. Os filtros: ser editado nos últimos 5 anos; estar relacionado com a conservaçã...
