Composição e variação nictimeral do ictioplâncton no estuário do rio Amazonas, Amapá, Brasil

A Costa Norte Brasileira é uma das regiões mais produtivas do Brasil, tendo o rio Amazonas como a principal fonte de nutrientes, o que explica o grande potencial de produção primária na região. O objetivo principal deste trabalho foi determinar a composição e variação nictimeral do ictioplâncton no estuário do rio Amazonas - Porto de Santana – Amapá - Brasil. As amostras de água subsuperficiais foram coletadas para aferir seguintes parâmetros: condutividade elétrica, pH, salinidade, turbidez, oxigênio dissolvido e temperatura .As amostragens foram realizadas em dois ciclos de 24 horas em uma estação fixa, em lua quarto crescente (Quadratura) e em lua cheia (sizígia). A coleta das amostras foi realizada com uma rede de plâncton, tipo Bongo com 0,60 m de abertura de boca, 1,50 m de comprimento e abertura de malha de 500 μm. Para determinar o volume de água filtrado foi acoplado à entrada da rede um fluxômetro mecânico, a amostra foi coletada acondicionada em potes e fixada com formol a 4%. Transportada para o Laboratório de Ecologia Aquática e Aqüicultura Tropical – LECAT, da Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia – UFRA onde o ictioplâncton foi quantificado e identificado em nível de família. Foram quantificadas 2.776 larvas, destas, 842 foram amostradas na coleta realizada na maré de quadratura (lua crescente) e 1.924 larvas na maré de sizígia (Cheia). As larvas de peixes identificadas nas marés pertencem a sete famílias (Engraulidae, Gobiidae, Sciaenidae, Tetraodontidae, Eleotridae, Clupeidae Pristigasteridae). As famílias Clupeidae e Gobiidae ocorreram somente na maré de quadratura, enquanto que as famílias Pristigasteridae e Tetraodontidae ocorreram somente na maré de sizígia. Durante a maré de quadratura (Lua Crescente) a família mais abundante foi Engraulidae seguida por Sciaenidae e Pristigasteridae. Nas estações, a densidade variou de 137 larvas/ 100 m3 às 15h30min até 2.859 larvas/ 100 m3 na coleta das 12h30min. Para a época das amostragens há um padrão temporal de distribuição das larvas de peixe influenciado pelo período de coleta (noturno e diurno), sendo que os maiores valores ocorrem durante o dia. O elevado número de larvas registrado revelou que a área do estuário do rio Amazonas é utilizada como área de reprodução e berçário. Não há diferenças significativas na composição do ictioplâncton com a mudança da fase lunar.

Morfologia e biometria do aparelho reprodutor feminino da capivara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Atividade de morcegos em cinco hábitats de uma paisagem fragmentada de Floresta Atlântica do sul do Brasil

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Fishery of the Uçá Crab Ucides Cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763) in a Mangrove Area in Cananéia, State of São Paulo, Brazil: Fishery Performance, Exploitation Patterns and Factors Affecting the Catches

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Efeito do treinamento resistido na densidade mineral óssea e no conteúdo de GLUT4 em ratos diabéticos (tipo 2) osteopênicos

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On the effects of each term of the geopotential perturbation along the time I: Quasi-circular orbits

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Caranguejeiros e caranguejos: a captura do caranguejo-uçá, Ucides cordatus (LINNAEUS, 1763) (Crustacea, Ucididae), no município de Canaéia (SP)

A captura do caranguejo-uçá (U. cordatus) constitui uma das principais fontes de alimento e renda para muitas comunidades litorâneas, sendo considerada uma das atividades extrativistas estuarinas mais antigas no Brasil. O Município de Cananéia (SP) faz parte da Área de Proteção Ambiental de Cananéia-Iguape-Peruíbe (APA/CIP), possuindo 72 km² de manguezais, que a partir de 1990 passaram a receber uma maior pressão de explotação dessa espécie pela introdução da “redinha”, um petrecho de pesca proibido por lei nas regiões sudeste-sul brasileiras (Portaria IBAMA nº 52/2003). O presente estudo visa avaliar a produção do recurso caranguejo-uçá em Cananéia (SP), identificando seu padrão explotatório recente, com vistas à sustentabilidade futura das capturas. Na avaliação foram utilizadas planilhas de dados disponibilizadas pelo Instituto de Pesca (APTA/SAA-SP), referentes aos anos de 2009 e 2010, além do acompanhamento de uma das rotinas de coleta, com realização de biometria dos caranguejos capturados. Os dados evidenciam que o uso da “redinha” apresenta falha de recolhimento de 3,6%, num total de 86,4% de produtividade, que permanecem nos manguezais, podendo (ou não) ser recolhidas por outro catador. Os dados das planilhas do IP/APTA/SAA-SP foram avaliados segundo o modelo linear generalizado (GLM), com base em seis variáveis (unidade produtiva, mês de captura, ano, fase lunar, setor produtivo e período reprodutivo da espécie), das quais o conhecimento empírico dos catadores, ano da pescaria e o setor produtivo, foram as variáveis que mais influenciaram as mudanças observadas na captura por unidade de esforço (CPUE) da espécie. Além disso, foram verificadas produtividades diferenciadas na extração de caranguejos entre os cinco setores estabelecidos, que caracterizam o Estuário de Cananéia nos dois anos analisados. A experiência na condução... (Resumo completo clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)

Influência do Luar nas Atividades de Emergência e Retorno ao Abrigo do Morcego Hematófago Desmodus rotundus (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) no Sudeste do Brasil: subtitulo

The common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus has as main food source blood of medium and large sizes mammals, but sporadically is observed feeding on birds, causing occasionally excessive bleeding and economic losses. Due to this D. rotundus is one of the most studied species of bats in the Americas. Once known that the lunar clarity might influence the nocturnal activities of the common vampire bats, the present study was carried out to know the behavior and schedules of emergencies and returns of bats to the shelter, its social behavior at the shelter´s entrance, especially of the dominant male, and the size and composition of the colony in different moon phases. The colony was composed by 105 individuals (65 females and 40 males) harboring in a hollow-tree of Farm Edgardia in Botucatu Municipality, State of São Paulo. Through the eight filming sessions, two for each moon phase, it was possible to observe that the distribution of emergences and returns to the shelter thought the night followed a specific pattern for each moon phase. The greatest number of emerging bats occurred in periods in which the moon was not born yet and the largest number of returns just before moon has been reached its maximum level in the sky. Therefore, the time period that bats are staying outside the shelter seems to be directly influenced by lunar light. This factor can influence the social activity of the colony and, in particular, the dominant male, who remains still on tree’s trunk, near the entrance of the shelter with greater frequency during periods of low moon light

Padrão de atividade da jaguatirica (Leopardus pardalis), cutia (Dasyprocta leporina) e paca (Cuniculus paca) no sul da Amazônia brasileira

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Planet formation in a triple stellar system: implications of the third star's orbital inclination

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Pareto Frontier for the time-energy cost vector to an Earth-Moon transfer orbit using the patched-conic approximation

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Laser terapêutico no reparo ósseo de ratos submetidos à ausência de carga

Low-intensity laser has been used as a physical agent in various fields of medical sciences such as bone and tissue repair. Meanwhile little is known about its effects in adverse conditions such as abolition of load and osteopenic. With the assumption that the laser Ga-Al-As accelerates the process of bone consolidation, goal of this study was to evaluate bone mineral density (BMD) in incomplete transverse osteotomies of tibia in adult rats, treated with low power laser therapy in three different groups: G1 (n = 10), reference 15 days; G2 (n=10), suspended by the tail and, accordingly, treated with laser for 12 days; G3 (n = 10), suspended by the tail by 36 days and that after 21 days, there was laser treatment for 12 days. The right tibia treated with laser and left served as control. The laser was used to Ga-Al-As, DMC - Flash Lase® III, with wavelength 830nm, 100 mW, 4J, 140 J / cm ², 40s of application in 12 sessions. It was used densitometer-Lunar DPX®, with computer program for "small animals", and the analysis of BMD was made in the bone throughout the region and the osteotomy. The results showed no efficacy of laser therapy in the process of bone repair, both in animals of group 1, as in group 2 and 3. It follows that either the low-power laser was not an effective performance or the effects of laser therapy is not only manifested at the site of irradiation as well as the systemic level.

On the relationship between squid and the environment: artisanal jigging for Loligo plei at Sao Sebastiao Island (24 degrees S), southeastern Brazil

The squid Loligo plei concentrates in the southeastern Brazil Bight, where it has traditionally supported small-scale fisheries around Sao Sebastiao Island (SSI). Sea surface temperature (SST), chlorophyll-a (Chl a), windspeed, wave height, rainfall, and lunar phase are related to fishing records and to the results of a survey of local fishers to investigate how they believe environmental variables might affect catches of L. plei. Daily fishery-dependent data over the years 2005-2009 were obtained from a fishing cooperative and were matched with satellite and meteorological forecast data. Generalized linear models were used to explore the significance of environmental variables in relation to variability in catch and catch per unit effort (cpue). Squid are fished with jigs in water shallower than 20 m, generally where SST is warmer and Chl a and windspeed are lower. Cpue and monthly catches decreased from 2005 to 2008, followed by a slight increase in 2009. The correlations between fishery and environmental data relate well to fishers` oceanological knowledge, underscoring the potential of incorporating such knowledge into evaluations of the fishery.

A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SEASONAL VARIATION OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS IN THE NORTHERN REGION OF THE TODOS OS SANTOS BAY (BAHIA, BRAZIL)

The results obtained in the August and December 2003, August 2004 and January 2005 oceanographic campaigns in the northern region of the Todos os Santos Bay (lat. 12 degrees 44.5`S; long. 038 degrees 35.00`W) between the Madre de Deus and Mare islands are analyzed. Instruments of continuous and discrete samplings were used to measure hydrographic properties currents and tides. The water mass of the northern region of the bay is forced by semidiurnal and mesotides of form number 0.08 and the lunar component M(2) height was estimated at 91cm. The time series of the surface currents indicated movements in the N/S direction, forced by the tide with maximum magnitudes of 0.73 m.s(-1) on the December 2003 campaign. However, in August 2004 the currents were dominated by the wind stress forcing, with a maximum speed of 1.85 m.s(-1) and SE direction. Near the bottom, the influence of the tide is not as evident, with a decrease in intensity due to internal and bottom friction, with a maximum velocity of 0.17 m.s(-1). The thermal and haline structures were weakly horizontally, as well as vertically stratified, with extreme values varying in the intervals 23 degrees C (August, 2004) to 28 degrees C (December, 2003) and 31.0 psu (August, 2003) to 36.0 psu (December, 2003), respectively. Some conclusions may be drawn from these results: i) The signs of the dilution of the fresh water discharges of the Caipe, Mataripe and Sao Paulo rivers in the region under the influence of the RLAM were observed only during the winter periods, but in the summer the region was flooded by waters of oceanic origin and the salinities above 36.0 indicated TW mass intrusion; ii) The N-S circulation near the RLAM is strongly dominated by the tide, and the importance of the M(2) component was unequivocal, however, the E-W component presented some tidal modulation away from abrupt bottom topographical changes, and iii) The residual series, calculated as the difference between the original and modeled, is about 1/4 of the original and confirmed its semidiurnal character.

A cyclic bipolar wind in the interacting binary V 393 Scorpii

V393 Scorpii is a double periodic variable characterized by a relatively stable non-orbital photometric cycle of 253 d. Mennickent et al. argue for the presence of a massive optically thick disc around the more massive B-type component and describe the evolutionary stage of the system. In this paper, we analyse the behaviour of the main spectroscopic optical lines during the long non-orbital photometric cycle. We study the radial velocity of the donor determining its orbital elements and find a small but significant orbital eccentricity (e = 0.04). The donor spectral features are modelled and removed from the spectrum at every observing epoch using the light-curve model given by Mennickent et al. We find that the line emission is larger during eclipses and mostly comes from a bipolar wind. We also find that the long cycle is explained in terms of a modulation of the wind strength; the wind has a larger line and continuum emissivity at the high state. We report the discovery of highly variable chromospheric emission in the donor, as revealed by the Doppler maps of the emission lines Mg II 4481 and C I 6588. We discuss notable and some novel spectroscopic features like discrete absorption components, especially visible at blue depressed O I 7773 absorption wings during the second half-cycle, Balmer double emission with V/R curves showing 'Z-type' and 'S-type' excursions around secondary and main eclipses, respectively, and H beta emission wings extending up to +/- 2000 km s(-1). We also discuss possible causes for these phenomena and for their modulations with the long cycle.