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Desastres relacionados à seca e saúde coletiva – uma revisão da literatura científica

Resumo No Brasil, a história das secas é marcada por seguidas tragédias sociais e sanitárias, com estimativas de 3 milhões de óbitos entre o início do século XIX e o final do século XX e o registro de quase 32 mil eventos e mais de 96 milhões de afetados entre 1991 e 2010. Apesar de no Brasil a...

Gestão das ações do setor saúde em situações de seca e estiagem

Resumo A água é essencial para o desenvolvimento socioeconômico de um território e, também, para sobrevivência do ser humano. A escassez hídrica causa impactos diretos e indiretos sobre o ambiente, a economia e a saúde humana, podendo alterar o perfil de morbidade e mortalidade das doenças, alé...

Medindo o invisível: análise dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável em populações expostas à seca

Resumo O Brasil, juntamente com todos os países membros das Nações Unidas, está num processo de adoção de um conjunto de Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável, incluindo metas e indicadores. Este artigo considera as implicações desses objetivos e metas propostos, para a região do semiárido ...

Effects of different water management options and fertilizer supply on photosynthesis, fluorescence parameters and water use efficiency of Prunella vulgaris seedlings

Biol. Res; 49 (), 2016
BACKGROUND: Prunella vulgaris L. is a medical plant cultivated in sloping, sun-shaded areas in China. Recently, owing to air-environmental stress, especially drought stress strongly inhibits plant growth and development, the appropriate fertilizer supply can alleviate these effects. However, these is lit...

Isolation and characterization of drought-responsive genes from peanut roots by suppression subtractive hybridization

Electron. j. biotechnol; 17 (6), 2014
Background Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important economic and oilseed crop. Long-term rainless conditions and seasonal droughts can limit peanut yields and were conducive to preharvest aflatoxin contamination. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which peanut responds and adapts to water limit...

Analysis of gene expression in Kalanchoe daigremontiana leaves during plantlet formation under drought stress

Electron. j. biotechnol; 16 (6), 2013
Background: Kalanchoe daigremontiana is an attractive model system for the study of the molecular mechanisms of somatic embryogenesis and organogenesis competence due to its formation of plantlets with adventitious roots on the leaf margins that are derived from somatic embryos. The suppression subtracti...

DNA sequence variation of drought-response candidate genes in Austrocedrus chilensis

Electron. j. biotechnol; 16 (2), 2013
Background: Austrocedrus chilensis (D. Don) Pic. Ser. et Bizzarri commonly known as Patagonian cypress is a member of the Cupressaceae family, characterized by a high adaptive potential for growing in marginal areas and good timber quality. The species grows over a wide area and under a wide range of rai...

Fish farm and water quality management

Acta sci., Biol. sci; 35 (1), 2013
Fish farms’ water quality management is analyzed with regard to the management employed and the different trophic states are compared within the system during the dry and rainy seasons. Six sites were marked two in the water supply (P1 and P2), and four within the fish farm (P3 to P6). Whereas sites P1...

Fine-root production in two secondary forest sites with distinct ages in Eastern Amazon

Acta amaz; 42 (1), 2012
The objective of this work was to assess the fine-root (≤ 2 mm diameter) production dynamics of two forest regrowths at different ages. Fine-root production was monitored by the ingrowth core method in one 18-year-old site (2 ha) and one 10-year-old site (0.5 ha), both localized in the Apeú region, No...