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Chironomus larvae (Chironomidae: Diptera) as water quality indicators along an environmental gradient in a neotropical urban stream

Revista Ambiente & Água, 2015
Anthropogenic interference in urban lotic systems is a factor affecting the biota of waterbodies. Aquatic macro invertebrates are an important food source for fish and are valuable indicators of water quality.
Nadja Gomes Machado, Danielle Christine Stenner Nassarden, Francyele dos Santos, Isabelle Christina Gonçalves Boaventura, Gregory Perrier, Fernanda Silveira Carvalho de Souza, Eucarlos de Lima Martins, Marcelo Sacardi Biudes   +7 more
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Conservation Biology; a crisis science/
Biologia da Conservação: ciência da crise

Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 2002
The science of conservation biology has been developed as an answer to the extinction crisis the world is currently facing. Conservation Biology is a synthesis of many different subjects, like Ecology, Population Biology, Anthropology, Taxonomy, all of ...
Efraim Rodrigues
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Helminth fauna of Passer domesticus (Passeriformes: Passeridae) in the southern extreme of Brazil

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2020
The objective of this study was to report helminth parasite species of Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) (sparrow) and to analyze infection rates in relation to total length, body mass and sexual gender of hosts.
Luciana Siqueira-Silveira dos Santos, Carolina Silveira-Mascarenhas, Paulo Roberto Silveira-dos Santos, Nara Amélia da Rosa-Farias   +3 more
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Crypsis by background matching and disruptive coloration as drivers of substrate occupation in sympatric Amazonian bark praying mantises

Scientific Reports, 2023
Background matching and disruptive coloration are common camouflage strategies in nature, but few studies have accurately measured their protective value in living organisms.
João Vitor de Alcantara Viana, Rafael Campos Duarte, Camila Vieira, Pablo Augusto Poleto Antiqueira, Andressa Bach, Gabriel de Mello, Lorhaine Silva, Camila Rabelo Oliveira Leal, Gustavo Quevedo Romero   +8 more
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Feeding habits define habitat use by bats in an agricultural landscape of the Atlantic Forest

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2020
Agricultural expansion and fragmentation of native habitats is considered to be the major cause of declining biodiversity worldwide, negatively impacting the provision and maintenance of nature’s contributions to people.
Rafael Souza Laurindo, Renan França Souza, Guilherme Oliveira Lemos, Naim Silva Teodoro, Leonardo Marin Bonilha, Fabiana Lucio Oliveira   +5 more
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Indigenous and Traditional Management Creates and Maintains the Diversity of Ecosystems of South American Tropical Savannas

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
The tropical South American savannas have been occupied and manipulated by humans since the late Pleistocene. Ecologists consider that soils, hydrology, and seasonal precipitation influence the structure and composition of plants and the fire-proneness ...
Maria Julia Ferreira, Carolina Levis, Leonardo Chaves, Leonardo Chaves, Charles Roland Clement, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Gustavo Taboada Soldati   +6 more
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Fatores a serem observados na criação de Áreas Protegidas: o caso do Parque Nacional do Descobrimento (Prado/BA)

Sociedade & Natureza, 2020
A criação de áreas protegidas é um dos mecanismos encontrados para garantir a proteção da biodiversidade frente às constantes e crescentes ameaças.
Euripedes Junior Pontes, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Prudente Almeida Pereira Neto   +2 more
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Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional responses of plant communities in different life-stages to forest cover loss

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2023
Habitat loss is among one of the main causes of biodiversity decline worldwide. Therefore, assessing different dimensions of diversity such taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional is important for more effective conservation strategies.
L. Rocha-Santos, D. Faria, E. Mariano-Neto, E.R. Andrade, J.A. Bomfim, D.C. Talora, M.S. Pessoa, E. Cazetta   +7 more
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Effect of vineyard characteristics on the functional diversity of insectivorous birds as indicator of potential biocontrol services

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Insectivorous birds have a large potential to provide biocontrol services in vineyards, thus contributing to the sustainability of this agroecosystem. Bird communities are influenced by vineyard management practices and surrounding landscape, which may ...
Rui Lourenço, Pedro F. Pereira, Amália Oliveira, Joana Ribeiro-Silva, Diogo Figueiredo, João E. Rabaça, António Mira, J. Tiago Marques   +7 more
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The return of the Iberian lynx to Portugal: local voices

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2018
Background Ethnographic research can help to establish dialog between conservationists and local people in reintroduction areas. Considering that predator reintroductions may cause local resistance, we assessed attitudes of different key actor profiles ...
Margarida Lopes-Fernandes, Clara Espírito-Santo, Amélia Frazão-Moreira   +2 more
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