Environmental factors influencing foraging activity in the social wasp Polybia paulista (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Epiponini)

Foraging behavior in social wasps is important in the development of the colony and reflects an important ecological interaction between the colony and the environment. Although the social traits of the colony play a role in the foraging activities, the conditions that establish the space and time limits are mainly physical. Here, we evaluate colonies of Polybia paulista throughout one year in order to verify the foraging activities and the items collected, as well as the importance of temperature, relative humidity, and solar radiation on motivating foraging. Collection of liquids was always higher than that of solids; preys were collected all year long, and nests showed two annual episodic expansions. The linear mixed effects (LME) model used to analyze which weather factors influence the foraging showed temperature as the most influencing factor on the collection of materials. © 2011 Naila Cristina de Souza Canevazzi and Fernando Barbosa Noll.

Social protection for the poor in Latin America

Includes bibliography

Efeito do L-triptofano na mediação do estresse de transporte e social do matrinxã (Brycon amazonicus)

Pós-graduação em Aquicultura - FCAV

Controle social do crescimento do camarão-da-amazônia Macrobrachium amazonicum

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Guatemala: contexto social de la familia guatemalteca

Incluye Bibliografía

A gestão da comunicação e da informação nas empresas contemporâneas sob a ótica da responsabilidade social

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Adaptação de bovinos ao confinamento: avaliação do temperamento e dos comportamentos social e alimentar

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Caracterização fenotípica e genética e do comportamento de reintegração social de perdizes (Rhynchotus rufescens) criadas em cativeiro

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Os pobres e os termos de bem viver: novas formas de controle social no império do Brasil

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

Repositório digital como ambiente de inclusão digital e social para usuários idosos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Efeitos de uma intervenção comportamental com treino de habilidades sociais para universitários com fobia social

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Valores, crenças e comportamentos nas ações e atitudes dos indivíduos de caráter ambiental no município de Lavras -MG

The concept of environment involves social, political and economic aspects, in addition to natural elements. The acknowledgement that the environmental issue is complex highlights the importance of understanding the dynamics of relations that guide the individuals in their interactions with the environment. In this sense, studies have shown the relation between values, beliefs and behaviors. The theory on values developed by Schwartz (1992) identifies the complexity of the relations between values and behavior, organizing the field of human motivation into ten motivational types. Studies conducted by Pato (2004) on environmental beliefs are capable of indicating how the individuals relate to the environment, and its predisposition in acting or not in an ecological manner, allowing an understanding of ecological behavior and its forms of manifestation. Therefore, the objective of this study consisted of analyzing the value perception over environmental beliefs and ecological behavior of the individuals inserted into the environmental theme of the municipality of Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The research was conducted using a sample of 82 participants, comprised in its majority of male (62.2%), married (54.9%) individuals, and those with age from 31 to 40 years (35.4%). A survey of four segments was conducted: Ecological Behavior Scale (EBS), Environmental Beliefs Scale (EBeS), Schwatz Value Profile (SVP-40) and sociodemographic variables. The participants assumed, first, a value orientation directed to the universalism motivational type, which involves an important set of values for understanding the behaviors in relation to the environment. Furthermore, the results showed that the behaviors related to urban cleaning and economy of water and energy are more easily assimilated, while behaviors oriented to activism/consumerism and recycling were not yet incorporated in a satisfactory manner. On the other hand, the fact of belonging to an institution of which mission is to care for the environment seems to induce the participants to show a greater predisposition to pro-environmental behaviors. The environmental issue, urgent and moved by not always confluent debates, points to the need for reorganizing daily life, which necessarily involves change in values and behaviors. Thus, this study is relevant given that the interaction between the constructs can contribute with the research and the proposition of strategies that promote a reduction of behaviors damaging to the environment, as well as the strengthening of those that contribute for its preservation, sensitizing the actors involved to reorder their roles for benefiting the environment.

Estado, políticas públicas e previdência social no Brasil: uma análise a partir da aposentadoria por tempo de contribuição

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Comportamento social e reprodutivo de Hyla albomarginata Spix, 1824 (Anura: hylidae) na Mata Atlântica

Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia) - IBRC

A interferência da luminosidade na agressividade e na hierarquia social de ciclídeos

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)