[PDF] Top 20 MATERIAL AND METHODS Area of study: The Pontal do Paranapanema is situated in the

... occurs in epidemic outbreaks and in sporadic cases with small annual variation in the Pontal of Paranapanema, ...There is little research on the ... See full document

... represents the first report of host-parasite associations between flies of the family Streblidae and their host bats in the Colombian Caribbean ...collected in a ... See full document

... individuals of other small omnivores and/ or insectivores invaded the recently formed lentic area, which provided abundant resources (Albrecht, ...amounts of food were consumed, no ... See full document

... systems, the Pantanal floodplain is composed of seasonally flooded habitats and other permanently dry ones, as a result of the subtle variations in topography (Prance ... See full document

... turbine and spillway discharges, atmosphere pressure, and precipitation that could influence entry ...it is less effective for understanding factors affecting fishway ...approach is to employ ... See full document

... feeding is used for reproduction, metabolism, and growth, or is accumulated in the form of energy reserves (Jobling, ...1994). In general, immature individuals exhibited ... See full document

... habitat area, following the classic species-area relationship (Ricklefs & Lovette, 1999; Benedick et ...example is provided by Uehara-Prado et ...ment area and species ... See full document

... us in Cruz Alta it was surpassed in abun- dance by various other species, being only the eighth most ...enough, the most abun- dant Neotropical species was ...12.4% in the ... See full document

... In the South of Brazil, the distribution of the grassland productivity throughout the year is typically seasonal due to the occurrence of low ... See full document

... estimate and a photographic census were carried out to investigate the possible decline in the abundance of the bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821), in ... See full document

... advantage of point counts relative to the list method remains for estimating relative ...spatial and temporal standardiza- tion means that their biases are more readily quantifi- able and ... See full document

... days of field work we accumulated approximately 1,700 hours and 1,500 km of non- systematic transect counts of ...birds. The photographic documentation could be divided into three ... See full document

... environments and topographic conditions. Near the ocean, in the southeastern portion of the scene, there is a relatively large altitudinal change from the ocean ... See full document

... species and frequency distribution of dispersal syndromes are comparable to or even more favorable for the recovery of the Atlantic forest in the ...recovery in ... See full document

... Urbanization and agriculture growth are some of the major causes of natural ecosystems depletion and biodiversity ...through the prioritization of areas for forest ... See full document

... ABSTRACT: In industrial forest plantations, the spatial distribution of management units for harvest scheduling influences the timber production cost and the non- renewable ... See full document

... Modeling of the ecological niche of vegetal species is useful for understanding the species-environment relationship, for prediction of responses to climate changes and ... See full document

... 2). The thresholds chosen were different for each region and year. In this work it was not possible to adopt a single threshold that generates, regardless of the year, a crop mask with ... See full document

... Bd. The positive correlation between the Kt/(Kt + Gb) ratio and micropores confirms the positive effect of Kt on the smaller aggregates and stability, consistent with ... See full document

... In the northern hemisphere, bird counts have been fundamental in gathering data to understand population ...to the seasonality of the northern hemisphere, counts take place ... See full document