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Inter-annual variability on the water quality in the Lower São Francisco River (NE-Brazil)
... Abstract: Aim: This study characterized the water quality in the lower São Francisco River (NE-Brazil).This research represents the first work to be carried out in the lower sector of the São Francisco ...
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OCCURRENCE AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF Melipona quinquefasciata IN NE BRAZIL (HYMENOPTERA, APIDAE)
... in NE Brazil, but there is uncertainty about their actual distribution in terms of the phytocoenosis (sensu stricto) they ...of Brazil, from the South of Espírito Santo to Rio Grande do Sul, ...
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Seismogenic faulting in the Meruoca granite, NE Brazil, consistent with a local weak fracture zone
... A sequence of earthquakes occurred in 2008 in the Meruoca granitic pluton, located in the northwestern part of the Borborema Province, NE Brazil. A seismological study defined the seismic activity occurring ...
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Mercury in the sea turtle Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1958) from Ceará coast, NE Brazil
... The coast of Ceará in NE Brazil is a known feeding, growing and migration corridor of 5 species of sea turtles. The green turtle, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1958), is the most frequent and abundant species ...
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Limnology of the largest multi-use artificial reservoir in NE Brazil: The Castanhão Reservoir, Ceará State
... in NE Brazil, the Castanhão Reservoir in Ceará State, during 5 years of an extended drought when the reservoir’s volume decreased from 88% to about ...
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Total-Hg and organic-Hg in Cephalopholis fulva (Linnaeus, 1758) from inshore and offshore waters of NE Brazil
... Specimens of C. fulva were caught in inshore wa- ters in the Ceará continental shelf, NE Brazil and adja- cent offshore oceanic waters (Figure 1). Both stations are located in front of the central portion ...
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LIMITED EFFECTIVENESS OF EL NIÑOS IN CAUSING DROUGHTS IN NE BRAZIL AND THE PROMINENT ROLE OF ATLANTIC PARAMETERS
... the NE Brazil coast, Kane (1999) showed that for some El Niño events shown in Table 2, the droughts did not occur because the Atlantic conditions were favourable for excess rains in NE ...for ...
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TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE SERGIPANO BELT, NE BRAZIL
... ABSTRACT The Sergipano Belt is a ESE-WNW trending, sub-greenschist to amphibolite grade meta- volcano-sedimentary wedge between the southern part of the Borborema Province, known as the Pernambuco- Alagoas Massif, and ...
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CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION IN THE PARAÍBA BASIN AND NATAL PLATFORM REGION, NE BRAZIL
... ABSTRACT. Several studies have tried to address the evolution of the Atlantic conjugate margins, including Brazil and West Africa. However, past research advances has been hindered by a lack of data for the ...
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Chemical and mineralogical characterization of elbaites from the Alto Quixaba pegmatite, Seridó province, NE Brazil
... The studied pegmatite occurs in the Borborema pegmatitic province, part of the Neoproterozoic Seridó tectonostratigraphic terrane, in the Borbore- ma structural province (Almeida et al. 1981). The Seridó terrane is ...
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Anthropogenic sources and distribution of phosphorus in sediments from the Jaguaribe River estuary, NE, Brazil
... KOCH, MS., BENZ, RE., RUDNICK, DT., 2001. Solid-phase phosphorus pools in highly organic carbonate sediments of Northeastern Florida Bay. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, vol. 52, p. 279-291. ...
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Carbonate Buildups in the Pernambuco Basin, NE Brazil
... The distal offshore region of the Pernambuco Basin developed over a large region of hyper-extended continental crust (Magalhães et al. 2014), which formed the Pernambuco Plateau (Fainstein and Milliman 1979, Gomes 2000, ...
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AntipArAsitic plAnts used by the KAntAruré-bAtidA indigenous community (ne-brAzil): ethnobotAny And locAl Knowledge-erosion risKs
... Vandebroek et al. (2004), Alves and Povh (2013), and Reyes-García et al. (2013) have recorded interferences capable of reducing the transmission and exercise of tradi- tional practices. These interferences are linked to ...
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A survey of the Scyphozoa and Cubozoa (Cnidaria, Medusozoa) from the Ceará coast (NE Brazil)
... Medusozoan cnidarians are important ecologically and economically (e.g. Mills 2001). The medusozoan fauna is fairly well known in Brazilian waters (see list in Migotto et al. 2002). Concerning non-hydrozoan medusozoans, ...
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Marine sponges of Pernambuco State, NE Brazil
... particularly high in sites 8 and 9 (Mamucabinha and CEPENE docks, both in Tamandaré), and wave action is important in the tive shallow-water sites: Mamucabinha and CEPENE docks in Tamand[r] ...
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The Jeremoabo transpressional transfer fault, Recoˆncavo – Tucano Rift, NE Brazil
... The Jeremoabo fault, located in the Early Cretaceous Recoˆncavo – Tucano Rift, northeastern Brazil, represents an example of transfer fault. A field-based structural analysis along 20 km of exposures revealed an E ...
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The use of medicinal plants by an indigenous Pataxó community in NE Brazil
... ABSTRACT: We identified and classified 48 medicinal plants used by the Pataxó Indians in south Bahia, Brazil. The location is an ecologically threatened area designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The aim ...
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Calcareous algae from Upper Albian - Cenomanian strata of the Potiguar basin (NE Brazil)
... In addition, in South America, with the exception of the Potiguar basin, there are very few data available on palaeo- phycological occurrences. Also, some records are erroneous: for instance, the Dasycladales illustrated ...
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Geomorphological patterns in the estuary of the Assu river, NE - Brazil
... A litorstatigrafia está distribuida em três superseqüências: Rifte (Cretáceo Inferior); Pós-rifte (Aptiano); e Drifte (Albiano até o recente). A evolução cenozóica é marcada pela reativação dos sistemas de falhas de ...
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Rev. Bras. Geof. vol.19 número2
... in NE Brazil (Kane, 1992, ...in NE Brazil, and the expected effects (droughts) were considerably distorted by intervention from Atlantic ...
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