Extensão rural em Agroecologia como ferramenta para construção do conhecimento agroecológico no Amazonas baseada no diálogo de saberes.

As atividades de extensão realizadas no curso superior de tecnologia em agroecologia do IFAM tem o objetivo gerar um aprendizado em via de mão dupla, por meio do diálogo de saberes entre populações tradicionais do Amazonas e acadêmicos do curso de tecnologia em agroecologia do Instituto Federal do Amazonas. Para Isso, foram realizadas oficinas de reaproveitamento de alimentos na comunidade Lago do limão, município do Iranduba; e oficina de Plantas Alimentícias Não Convencionais na comunidade São João do Araçá, no município de Itacoatiara. Foram demonstradas as possibilidades de reaproveitar para alimentação, resíduos orgânicos e espécies alimentícias não convencionais. As duas atividades tiveram participação efetiva dos comunitários e permitiram aos acadêmicos a convivência com a realidade amazônica e a interação com os agricultores familiares e suas dificuldades e perspectivas de vida, contribuindo assim, para a formação com visão sistêmica, conforme preconiza a agroecologia.

Soil organic carbon, carbon stock and their relationships to physical attributes under forest soils in Central Amazonia.

The soil carbon under Amazonian forests has an important roles in global changing, making information on the soil content and depths of these stocks are considerable interest in efforts to quantify soil carbon emissions to the atmosphere.This study quantified the content and soil organic carbon stock under primary forest up to 2 m depth, at different topographic positions, at Cuieiras Biological Reserve, Manaus/ ZF2, km 34, in the Central Amazon, evaluating the soil attributes that may influence the permanence of soil carbon. Soil samples were collected along a transect of 850 m on topographic gradient Oxisol (plateau), Ultisol (slope) and Spodosol (valley). The stocks of soil carbon were obtained by multiplying the carbon content, soil bulk density and trickiness of soil layers. The watershed was delimited by using STRM and IKONOS images and the carbon contend obtained in the transects was extrapolated as a way to evaluate the potential for carbon stocks in an area of 2678.68 ha. The total SOC was greater in Oxisol followed by Spodosol and Ultisol. It was found direct correlations between the SOC and soil physical attributes. Among the clay soils (Oxisol and Ultisol), the largest stocks of carbon were observed in Oxisol at both the transect (90 to 175.5 Mg C ha-1) as the level of watershed (100.2 to 195.2 Mg C ha-1). The carbon stocks under sandy soil (Spodosol) was greater to clay soils along the transect (160-241 Mg C ha-1) and near them in the Watershed (96.90 to 146.01 Mg C ha-1).

Hematological parameters of three freshwater stingray species (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae) in the middle Rio Negro, Amazonas state.

This paper aimed to study and compare the hematology of newborns, young, subadults, adult males, adult females and pregnant females of Potamotrygon wallacei (cururu stingray), Potamotrygon motoro and Paratrygon aiereba. Newborn cururu stingrays had lower red blood parameters than those of other development stages. Thrombograms and leukograms showed a conservative pattern between development stage, sexual dimorphism and pregnancy. In P. motoro and P. aiereba, variables relating to red blood parameters, biochemistry and leukograms showed little variation between the species' biological characteristics, thus showing that these variables are not good criteria for differentiating them within the same species. In conclusion, the development stage is an important factor for differentiating hematological properties in the cururu stingray, while this has not been observed in P. motoro and P. aiereba stingrays.

A importância socioeconômica e cultural do feirão da Sepror, no abastecimento de frutas tropicais na cidade de Manaus-AM.

2016