En la actualidad, somos testigos de una intensificación global de desastres relacionados con el agua: inundaciones, erosión y sequías conviven con cambios en la circulación global del agua, el aumento del nivel del mar y modificaciones en los…
En este texto comenzamos a explorar, teniendo en cuenta los debates recientes sobre el reconocimiento constitucional de los derechos de la naturaleza, madre tierra, o paccha mama en términos de los pueblos quechuas y aymaras andinos, una…
The invasive tendency of Psychodopygus intermedius in the home environment, observed initially by Forattini et al. (1976), has now been confirmed by the demonstration of its high endophilic ability and by the use of human residences for shelter.…
This report shows the phlebotomine vectorial role in the endemic cutaneous leishmaniasis situated in the middle and north-eastern region of the São Paulo, Brazil. Analysis of information encloses a sandfly man-biting fauna of four different patches…
Human cases of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) have been recorded in Serra da Cantareira, in the Greater São Paulo Metropolitan Region, where two conservation units are situated, the Parque Estadual da Cantareira and the Parque Estadual…
Human cases of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) have been recorded in Serra da Cantareira, in the Greater São Paulo Metropolitan Region, where two conservation units are situated, the Parque Estadual da Cantareira and the Parque Estadual…
Post-mortem studies were conducted on twenty equids (16 horses and four mules) of the Paraíba Valley, during a period of twelve years (1988 to 2000) in order to establish the ecological descriptors of the different species of small strongylids…
A territory, a city, a neighbourhood are all ecosystems; a mixture of chemico-physical and organic elements related to each other. That which defines an ecological system is the set of rules and characteristics which condition its relationships, and…
This paper analyzes the emergence of different styles of farming, resulting from an incomplete process of modernization in the rural zone of Canguçu, located in the east of state of Rio Grande do Sul. It also to intend expose the directions and…
The aim of this study was to characterize the forest structure with H. flexuosa in Rondônia State, as a first step in developing sustainable harvest and conservation guidelines for the species. Crown attributes, total height (m) and diameter at…