The cocoa and chocolate production chain involves US$60 billion annually and three million farmers around the world, in an area exceeding nine million hectares. The use of wild germplasm will enable to generate new disease- and pest-resistant cultivars and ability to adapt to changing environments. Here ...
Semiarid regions are characterised by water scarcity, a limiting factor on plant growth and development. The Sertão Canal was built in the semiarid region of Brazil, more specifically in the state of Alagoas, with the aim of making year-round irrigation possible. However, for the best water management, ...
O conceito de rio continuo prediz que mudanças graduais na geomorfologia e hidrologia de um rio podem causar mudanças
longitudinais na estrutura de comunidades aquáticas. Nesse contexto, avaliamos como variáveis ambientais (condutividade
elétrica, pH, transparência e velocidade da água), fatores...
We tested the effects of ruralization and urbanization on the functional diversity indices and the composition of functional traits of Neotropical stream fish communities. The study was carried out in 24 streams of the Pirapó, Piquiri, Paraná III and Iguassu river basins. Land use in the watershed was ...
Auchenipteridae is divided into subfamilies Centromochlinae and Auchenipterinae. Parauchenipterus is included in the latter and is subject of taxonomic discussions concerning its validation or synonymization with Trachelyopterus. Herein, three species from two hydrographic basins were cytogenetically ana...
Tatia comprises twenty-five valid species, distributed in the main inland watersheds of South America, including the Orinoco, Essequibo, and coastal rivers of Suriname, Amazon, upper rio Paraná and São Francisco basins. A new species is described from tributaries of upper rio Manuel Alves on uplands of...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the space-time dynamics of the soil use and
occupation of the Rio Roncador river basin between 1985 and 2010. The scenes were classified by two methods
(partially unsupervised - K-Means and supervised - Maximum likelihood), the Thematic Mapper sensor
products o...
Resumo Apesar dos esforços de despoluição desde os anos 1990, não houve percepção, por parte da opinião pública, de que houve evolução do deteriorado quadro social da região da bacia da Baía de Guanabara (RJ). A importância dos indicadores sociais emerge em um momento em que se faz necessár...
Os problemas socioecológicos são complexos e multidimensionais, envolvendo pelo menos a dimensão ambiental, social, econômica, política e institucional. Os problemas relacionados ao uso múltiplo dos recursos hídricos, a revitalização de bacias hidrográficas e a rec...
