Contexto deposicional da sequência Balbuena III (Maastrichtiano/ Daniano) da formação Yacoraite na sub-bacia metán-alemania, na região de Salta, Argentina

Pós-graduação em Geologia Regional - IGCE

Geocronologia de formas deposicionais e evolução da planície interleques do Rio Negro, quartenário da Bacia do Pantanal

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

Diagnóstico hidroambiental para incremento da qualidade ambiental no município de Votorantim, SP

Pós-graduação em Ciências Ambientais - Sorocaba

Alterações ultrassonográficas renais e vesicais de ovinos confinados e suplementados com cloreto de amônio

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

Removal of clay by stingless bees: load size and moisture selection

Some organisms disperse energy, associated with the transportation of resource, which is not necessarily food. Stingless bees of Central Amazonia (Melipona flavolineata and M. lateralis) collect clay in banks along streams for nest building. The moisture of the clay varies along the bank, and bees collect clay from specific location, indicating that there is some sort of preference regarding their selection. This study aims at identifying: if larger bees carry more clay; if there is a preference for moisture of substrates; and if bees are less efficient accumulating and transporting clay when it is wet. In order to do so, I measured the size of the bees and of the pellets of clay found in the corbicula. I set up a field experiment to test substrate preferences. The amount of clay transported, increased exponentially in accordance to the size of the bee, and the preferred substrate was the driest clay. The amount and the efficiency of removal of clay were not affected by the moisture of the substrate. Despite the wet clay being denser, it does not reduce the efficiency of exploitation of the resource, but suggests that bees spend more energy to carry the same quantity of wet clay, which may be the underlying mechanism explaining their preference for removing drier clay.

Análise estratigráfica em depósitos lacustres maastrichtianos da Formação Yacoraite (Bacia de Salta - Argentina): definição e rastreabilidade de sequências de alta resolução

Pós-graduação em Geologia Regional - IGCE

Geotecnologias aplicadas à análise do assoreamento de reservatórios de hidrelétricas em cenário de escassez de dados de séries históricas

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Mecânica - FEG

Evolução geomorfológica e palaeoambiental dos terraços da margem esquerda do alto rio Paraná

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Caracterização geomorfológica do sistema deposicional do Rio Miranda (borda sul do Pantanal mato-grossense, MS) com base em dados orbitais

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Denudação química e implicações na composição das águas superficiais da Bacia do Rio Jaú (SP)

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Balanço entre intemperismo químico e remoção do solo na bacia do Ribeirão Monjolo Grande, Ipeúna (SP), determinado por geoquímica fluvial

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

Contribuição à análise de proveniência sedimentar pelo método Traços de Fissão em zircão e influências estruturais para a formação do Planalto Residual de Marília

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

Avaliação de métodos de proteção para taludes em estrada não-pavimentada

This work presents the results of the efficiency of three protection methods of roads slopes, against the development of erosion processes.The methods anlyzed were: (1) grass planting "San Carlos" (Axonopus compressus), (2) litter, composed of remains of branches and leaves of eucalyptus E. Grandis, and (3) Compacted soil cover with a local soil with properties more resistant to erosion processes.The experiment consisted of assembly of four rectangular cells with 6 meters, three for protection systems in study and one was kept unprotected to evaluate the efficiency of the methods in study.The determination of the amount of eroded sediment was based on the sum of the solids in suspension and stored sediments in the geotextile bags.The results showed that, compared to the unprotected cell, the litter obtained a reduction of soil loss of 90%, while the grass enveloped and reduced 80% and 65% respectively.

Magnetometric exploration in intrusive basic with evidence of gold in northern region of the Camaquã Sedimentary Basin (RS)

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Avaliação da erosão hídrica por meio da Equação Universal de Perda de Solo Modificada (MEUPS) na bacia hidrográfica do Ribeirão Jacutinga, Rio Claro (SP)

Water erosion is one of the main processes responsible for soil degradation, resulting in loss of parcels of land suitable for agriculture, to the loss of agricultural inputs and the resulting drift of pesticides and excess sediment to rivers, causing phenomena such as the siltation and eutrophication of water bodies. Such a scenario makes it necessary to perform work of a technical and scientific to provide subsidies to land-use planning, in order to protect natural resources biotic and abiotic. To develop this work is necessary to find a unit of analysis capable of integrating the different elements of the landscape, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere and lithosphere. Therefore we adopt for this work the watershed as main unit studies. From this question, this project will focus on the assessment of surface water erosion through MEUPS (Equation Modified Universal Soil Loss) predictive model. With the aid of maps, remote sensing products, and the use of geotechnology, this study aims to evaluate for the for Natural Erosion Potential the basin of the Jacutinga river, located in Rio Claro - SP