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Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) Population Trends and Dynamics in Texas

open access: yes, 1995
This study analyzes range expansion, population trends, reproductive success, band recoveries, and sightings of color-marked Neotropic Cormorants (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) in Texas. After a drastic population decline in coastal breeding colonies in the
Telfair, Raymond C., II
core  

Management and incipient domestication of Chamaedorea tepejilote in agroforestry systems in Mexico

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Native wild plants are key elements in addressing global biodiversity loss and supporting sustainable food systems. We investigated how rural communities in Mexico manage Chamaedorea tepejilote, a wild palm with edible male inflorescences, by combining ethnobotanical, genetic, morphological and ecological approaches.
Viviana Andrade   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond forests: Harnessing conservation gardening for open biomes in Brazil

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Urban gardening offers an innovative conservation strategy by integrating native ornamental species into urban landscapes. We evaluated the ornamental potential of the Brazilian flora by comparing the representation of species from forests versus open biomes (focusing on campo rupestre grasslands) and introduced and validated the Index of Ornamental ...
Flávia Santos Faria   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contribuição ao conhecimento da melhor terapêutica curativa do tifo exantemático no Brasil (doenca de Piza, Meyer e Gomes)

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1953
O autor diz ter tentado a terapêutica do Tifo exantemático neotrópico entre nós, por várias maneiras, durante cêrca de 18 anos, sem que tivesse obtido resultado apreciável.
Octavio de Magalhães
doaj   +1 more source

How many bromeliads are there? History and future perspectives of species scientific discovery in the pineapple family

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
It remains unclear how many plant species are not yet recorded by science. We illustrated the process by which species of the pineapple family in tropical America have been newly described to science to date, and we estimated how many species may still await scientific discovery in this group.
Georg Zizka   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

NEOTROPICAL MYRSINACEAE XVIII

open access: yes, 1985
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
openaire   +3 more sources

Out of Africa : Fossils shed light on the origin of the hoatzin, an iconic Neotropic bird

open access: yes, 2011
International audienceWe describe the earliest fossils of the enigmatic avian taxon Opisthocomiformes (hoatzins) from the Oligo-Miocene (22-24 mya) of Brazil.
Herculano Alvarenga   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Optimal irradiation parameters for the development of the sterile insect technique in the seedcorn maggot Delia platura (Diptera: Anthomyiidae)

open access: yesPest Management Science, EarlyView.
X‐ray irradiation of Delia platura pupae showed that 20 Gy induces high sterility while maintaining male quality and competitiveness, establishing optimal parameters for sterile insect technique implementation in North America. Abstract BACKGROUND The seedcorn maggot, Delia platura Meigen (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), is a sporadic but economically ...
Anne‐Marie Fortier   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contribuição ao estudo das Pasteurellas: pasteurella intermediária n. sp

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1944
Os autores decreveram uma nova bactéria - Pasteurella intermedia n. ap., obtida pela inoculação em cobaio de 2 cc. de sangue total de um indivíduo morto de bronco-pneumonia e suspeito de ter a forma grave de Tifo exantemático neotrópico.
Octavio de Magalhães, Adyr Rocha
doaj   +1 more source

Improved Cerrado Wetland Mapping Through Seasonal Moisture Metrics, Terrain Information and Semantic Segmentation

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Brazil's Cerrado valley wetlands—swamp savanna and gallery forest—are highly important for the biome's water cycle and carbon storage and are susceptible to degradation from the impacts of land use expansion and the climate crisis. In support of their detailed monitoring and assessment, we developed and tested a transferable mapping approach that ...
Felix Beer   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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