[PDF] Top 20 Beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) associated with pig carcasses exposed in a Caatinga area, Northeastern Brazil

... time associated with carcasses in the Neotropical ...seasonality, with only 13.4% and 34.2% of the specimens collected, respectively, in the dry ...these beetles on ... See full document

... Current studies show the importance of savanna vegetation for the conservation of Brazilian biodiversity, due to the high level of endemism of the species having the lowest number and the less extent protected from all ... See full document

... reptiles in a Caatinga area in the state of Piauí, northeastern ...the Caatinga biome or had restricted distribution to northeastern Brazil (n = 7; ...Although ... See full document

... mainly in terms of movement, we have applied the following indices to assess the foraging intensity of ...(TS, in seconds), distance travelled (DT, in cm; linear distance between the initial location ... See full document

... response in insect abundance, such as Isoptera, which present a great amount of alate ...pattern in the tropics, responding primarily to temperature and rainfall (Nutting ...alteration in soil ... See full document

... fall in the species abundance curves for open field and shrub ...mostabundant in the three habitats: Columbina picui (Temminck, 1813), Mimus saturninus (Lichtenstein, 1823), Zonotrichia capensis (Statius ... See full document

... Ponerinae) in the semi-arid Caatinga of northeastern ...months in a Caatinga area of northeastern Brazil, an ecosystem characterized by strong climatic changes ... See full document

... increase in food resources in the caatinga during the rainy season appears to be a key factor triggering the reproduc- tive activities of ...reproduction in scor- pions are directly affected ... See full document

... (82.6%) in Cariri Paraibano were hermaphroditic, a similar situation to that observed in other tropical ecosystems (see Machado and Lopes, 2004; Parra-Tabla and Bullock, ...observed in another ... See full document

... conducted in a natural area of Cerrado (518,98319 S; 048,29723 W), situated seven kilo- meters south of the urban perimeter of the city of Uberlândia, State of Minas Gerais, ...first in the dry ... See full document

... da Caatinga: uma fl oresta seca brasileira com alto valor ...A Caatinga é um bioma endêmico e ameaçado de fl oresta seca distribuída ao longo do Nordeste do ...ciliar, Caatinga em regeneração e ... See full document

... resources. In most settings there is also a potential for achieving more with the available resources, by reducing waste and by changing the mix of activities being ... See full document

... RJ, Brazil). Galls are changes in the pattern of growth and development of plant tissues or organs in response to the action of an inducing organism, usually an ...found in 24 plant species ... See full document

... conducted in each of the two sea- sons (see ...2013. In the winter, collecting took place from July to September, 2010 and ...Eight carcasses of domestic pig (Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758), pre- ... See full document

... prevalent in RSS, an area under substantial water stress, than in ...NSN. In RSS, giardiasis was more frequent among inhabitants who drink rainwater stored in ... See full document

... implicated in worldwide livestock losses, causing reproductive problems such as abortion and infertility in several species, including goats (Dubey et ...on Northeastern Brazil (Instituto…, ... See full document

... birds in an Atlantic Forest fragment in Rio Grande do Norte state, in ...Brazil. In the laboratory, mites were collected through visual examination of freshly killed ...of Brazil ... See full document

... ables), with four independent variables: rainfall, maximum and minimum temperatures, and relative humidity of the ...performed with species en- countered in at least five monthly ... See full document

... 2013). In addition, some species may present different seasonal patterns in the same geographic area, due to climatic variations (GUIMARÃES et ...2012). In the present study, the month ... See full document

... toxicity. In the hospitals studied, the serum level of itraconazole was not monitored, so data concerning drugs interactions were not obtained and consequently limited the evalu- ation of this issue; no ... See full document