A construção do Eldorado Amazônico no governo Vargas: a representação através da imagem (1940-1945)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Estudos estruturais com fosfolipases A2 isoladas de venenos de serpentes dos gêneros Bothrops e Crotalus

Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Genética) - IBB

Efeito da diversidade de habitats sobre o desenvolvimento populacional do camarão-da-amazônia

Pós-graduação em Aquicultura - FCAV

Rotary peeling yield of Schizolobium amazonicum (Leguminosae - Caesalpinioideae)

The tropical tree Schizolobium amazonicum is native from the Amazonian forest, naturally occurring in Brazil, Peru and Colombia. This work aimed to study the veneer yield made from this species. For this purpose, 50 logs from S. amazonicum were rotary peeled in a plywood industry installed in Brazilian Amazon region. The results indicated that S. amazonicum had a peeling yield similar or even higher than those usually obtained for species traditionally used for this purpose in Brazil, like those of Pinus and Eucalyptus. It was also observed that the dendrometric parameters of the log can be used to estimate the peeling yield in this species.

Chemical composition and fatty acid contents in farmed freshwater prawns

The objective of this work was to evaluate the chemical composition and fatty acid contents of Amazonian and giant river prawns. After four-month farming, with the same diet for both species, palmitic and stearic acids were the main saturated fatty acids. Oleic acid was the main monounsatured fatty acid, and the eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids were the most abundant polyunsaturated acids. Amazonian prawn has higher levels of protein and polyunsaturated fatty acids than those of the giant river prawn, which shows its potential for aquaculture.

Reproductive performance of Santa Ines ewes during dry and rainy seasons in eastern Amazon

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Structural bases for a complete myotoxic mechanism: Crystal structures of two non-catalytic phospholipases A(2)-like from Bothrops brazili venom

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

Seasonal genetic partitioning in the neotropical malaria vector, Anopheles darlingi

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

Amazon forest biomass density maps: tackling the uncertainty in carbon emission estimates

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

Decay of interspecific avian flock networks along a disturbance gradient in Amazonia

Our understanding of how anthropogenic habitat change shapes species interactions is in its infancy. This is in large part because analytical approaches such as network theory have only recently been applied to characterize complex community dynamics. Network models are a powerful tool for quantifying how ecological interactions are affected by habitat modification because they provide metrics that quantify community structure and function. Here, we examine how large-scale habitat alteration has affected ecological interactions among mixed-species flocking birds in Amazonian rainforest. These flocks provide a model system for investigating how habitat heterogeneity influences non-trophic interactions and the subsequent social structure of forest-dependent mixed-species bird flocks. We analyse 21 flock interaction networks throughout a mosaic of primary forest, fragments of varying sizes and secondary forest (SF) at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project in central Amazonian Brazil. Habitat type had a strong effect on network structure at the levels of both species and flock. Frequency of associations among species, as summarized by weighted degree, declined with increasing levels of forest fragmentation and SF. At the flock level, clustering coefficients and overall attendance positively correlated with mean vegetation height, indicating a strong effect of habitat structure on flock cohesion and stability. Prior research has shown that trophic interactions are often resilient to large-scale changes in habitat structure because species are ecologically redundant. By contrast, our results suggest that behavioural interactions and the structure of non-trophic networks are highly sensitive to environmental change. Thus, a more nuanced, system-by-system approach may be needed when thinking about the resiliency of ecological networks.

Species delimitation, patterns of diversification and historical biogeography of the Neotropical frog genus Adenomera (Anura, Leptodactylidae)

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

A new genus and two new species of Opilioacaridae (Acari: Parasitiformes) from Amazonia, Brazil with a key to world genera

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

Caracterização de solos sob diferentes usos na região sul do Amazonas

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

Estudo da distribuição e do potencial de metilação do mercúrio em solos e sedimentos de áreas a serem inundadas para aproveitamento hidrelétrico: Vinicius Marques Gomes. -

Pós-graduação em Química - IQ

Genetic diversity and population structure of the New World screwworm fly from the Amazon region of Brazil

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