Dry Seasons
Performance of supplemented heifers on Marandu grass pastures in the wet-to-dry transition and dry seasons
... the dry seasons, between March and September 2004, under intermittent grazing, and to correlate those characteristics with the performance of crossbred heifers receiving mineral supplements ad libitum or ...
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Sperm parameters and biochemical components of goat seminal plasma in the rainy and dry seasons in the Brazilian Northeast: the season’s influence on the cooling of semen
... significant decrease in the percentage of motile cells and vigor throughout the cooling time in both seasons. The cooling process can cause irreversible damage to sperm due to heat shock, which can be minimized by ...
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Structure of macroinvertebrate communities in riffles of a Neotropical karst stream in the wet and dry seasons
... The study area was a section of the Salobrinha Stream, municipality of Bodoquena in Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil (56° 45’ 50.3” W and 20° 40’ 00.3” S). The stream originates at an altitude of circa 600 m, near the ...
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Zooplankton community dynamics in relation to the seasonal cycle and nutrient inputs in an urban tropical estuary in Brazil
... Micro- and mesozooplankton were studied in the Sergipe estuary, northeastern Brazil, in order to assess the tempo- ral variability in abundance and biodiversity under stressed conditions (urban pollution). Zooplankton ...
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Controlling factors of benthic macroinvertebrates distribution in a small tropical pond, lateral to the Paranapanema River (São Paulo, Brazil).
... and dry seasons due to “atypical” rainfall in July, the seasonality efects on benthic fauna were more expressive than spatial ones, mainly because of this community response to some environmental factors, ...
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Diet seasonality and food overlap of the fish assemblage in a pantanal pond
... and dry season, and fish was the dominant item for 31% of the species in both ...the dry season (detritivores, insectivores, lepidophages, omnivores and ...
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Daily activity and microhabitat use of sympatric lizards from Serra do Cipó, southeastern Brazil
... the dry season, activity of this species lasted for nine hours beginning at 09:00h and ceasing at ...and dry seasons (D max = ...the dry (F ...
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Relative chlorophyll contents in the evaluation of the nutritional status of nitrogen from xaraes palisade grass and determination of critical nitrogen sufficiency index
... NSI responded to fertilization till it reached the plateau in 0.85 and 0.99 respectively during the rainy and dry seasons, with cNSI of xaraes grass at 0.85 (Table 1; Figure 5). Consequently, xaraes ...
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Araújo, VFP. a,b , Bandeira, AG.c
... Soil macroarthropods were collected in dense caatinga vegetation in May 2007 and November 2008, during the rainy and dry seasons, respectively. For the samples, two parallel transects of 100 m, 30 m apart, ...
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ZOOPLANKTON BIOMASS OF RESERVOIRS IN DIFFERENT TROPHIC CONDITIONS IN THE STATE OF SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
... This paper reports on a study involving an estimate of the biomass of rotifers, cladocerans, and cyclopoid and calanoid copepods found in reservoirs in different trophic conditions, comparing and relating numerical ...
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Preface ''Precipitation: Measurement, Climatology, Remote Sensing, and Modeling (EGU 2010)''
... The second and third papers comprise climatological stud- ies on precipitation. A climatic study was performed by Costa (2011) in which the yearly changes in precipitation from 1940 to 1999, on local and regional scales, ...
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Seasonal variation in allelopathic potential of the leaves of
... and dry seasons do not diff er in the overall phytotoxic potential of their extracts, but the diff erences detected in subfractions of these extracts may refl ect subtle seasonal changes in their chemical ...
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Driving forces of the diel distribution of phytoplankton functional groups in a shallow tropical lake (Lake Monte Alegre, Southeast Brazil)
... The present study aimed to analyze diel and verti- cal dynamics of phytoplankton in Lake Monte Alegre in two seasons: cool-dry and warm-rainy. Considering the reservoir mixing patterns and available ...
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FISH ASSEMBLAGE STRUCTURE IN A FIRST ORDER STREAM, SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL: LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION, SEASONALITY, AND MICROHABITAT DIVERSITY
... This study was carried out on a first order stream in the Morro do Diabo State Park, southeastern Brazil. Three equidistant stream stretches - upper, middle, and lower - were chosen for underwater observations and fish ...
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Key words: traditional Minas cheese, ripening, total and fecal coliforms, coagulase-positive staphy-
... During the ripening process, a reduction in the amount of E. coli was also detected. The high numbers of coliforms and E. coli found at the beginning of ripening are indicative of poor sanitation conditions during ...
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Insect-Plant Interactions: New Pathways to a Better Comprehension of Ecological Communities in Neotropical Savannas
... a dry and hot environment in the major part of the year, and saving moisture or protecting against direct sunlight exposure make the shelters produced by forest-engineers a disputed ...
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Temporal stability of soil moisture under effect of three spacings in a eucalyptus stand
... ABSTRACT. Soil moisture temporal variability is an important concept in understanding forest management. The objective of this study was to analyse the effect of planting density on soil profile moisture in a clonal ...
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Feeding ecology of Pterodoras granulosus (Siluriformes, Doradidae) in the Lajeado Reservoir, Tocantins, Brazil
... the dry season, the sharp drop in tributary discharge in the basin favors the formation of large backwaters and the growth of filamentous algae, which were largely consumed by small ...
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Relationships between Long-Term Demography and Weather in a Sub-Arctic Population of Common Eider.
... four seasons, monthly averages of local weather data (temperature, precipitation, atmospheric pressure and wind speed) were averaged for each season (winter: December-March; spring: April-May; summer: ...
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Activity patterns of nine phyllostomid bat species in a fragment of the Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil
... the dry season and along all the rainy ...the dry season: 1) these bats are in small populations in the area and were not captured due to their low number; 2) there is a dynamic among fragments in the ...
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