Importância de unidades de conservação: o caso da Floresta Estadual Navarro de Andrade (Rio Claro - SP)

One of the ways of Geography is the study of the relationship between man and space, so that the question of the preservation of the environment and yours attributes is increasingly standing out in society. The State Forest Edmundo Navarro de Andrade is a conservation of sustainable use, so with this category aims to reconcile nature conservation with sustainable use of a portion of its resources, and a place that has many direct and indirect benefits to the interconnected environment . Therefore, the object of study is the State Forest Edmundo Navarro de Andrade, highlighting its Public Use Area. This work has as main objective to measure the importance of the State Forest Edmundo Navarro de Andrade, in the view of visitors, and present some key aspects of the unit in relation to its attractions. Thus, we seek the appreciation of the history of the city of Rio Claro and qualities of the State Forest Edmundo Navarro de Andrade

Conscientizar para o bem-estar animal: posse responsável

The community awareness on responsible ownership associated with public policies is key to the promotion of animal welfare. Most cities have a large population of dogs and cats wandering causing serious health problems and abuse. This project aimed to guide and inform the population aimed at animal welfare with the simple and direct approach to issues related to responsible ownership, management, nature conservation and zoonoses. The methodology developed to approach the project in two modules: the I and II, along public and private Elementary and High Schools in Araçatuba. Module I (Mod.I) is basedon the use of puppet theater and musicals, considering the target audience children 3-10 years and the second module (Mod 2) consists of presentations of lectures by undergraduate and graduate course of Veterinary Medicine FMVA UNESP campus Araçatuba, being the target audience of High School teenagers. Data collection proceeded by questionnaires, with questions regarding the care and practices to pets. The results revealed that there is a lack of information about animal welfare practice.

THE CONTROL OF VERTEBRATE PROBLEM ANIMALS IN THE PROVINCE OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

The policy of the Cape Provincial Department of Nature Conservation is based on the concept of "wise management" of wildlife resources. Where crop damage is real, control measures are essential. These, however, must be adapted to the species concerned and applied only where the damage is taking place. Blanket measures which also kill many useful species must be avoided. For this reason, the control of problem animals should be vested in the agency concerned with wildlife conservation.

Changes in biodiversity and vegetation composition in the central Swiss Alps during the transition from pristine forest to first farming

Aim: We investigate the response of vegetation composition and plant diversity to increasing land clearance, burning and agriculture at the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition (c. 6400–5000 bc) when first farming was introduced. Location: The Valais, a dry alpine valley in Switzerland. Methods: We combine high-resolution pollen, microscopic charcoal and sedimentological data to reconstruct past vegetation, fire and land use. Pollen evenness, rarefaction-based and accumulation-based palynological richness analyses were used to reconstruct past trends in plant diversity. Results: Our results show that from c. 5500 cal. yr bc, slash-and-burn activities created a more open landscape for agriculture, at the expense of Pinus and Betula forests. Land clearance by slash-and-burn promoted diverse grassland ecosystems, while on the long term it reduced woodland and forest diversity, affecting important tree species such as Ulmus and Tilia. Main conclusions: Understanding the resilience of Alpine ecosystems to past disturbance variability is relevant for future nature conservation plans. Our study suggests that forecasted land abandonment in the Alps will lead to pre-Neolithic conditions, with significant biodiversity losses in abandoned grassland ecosystems. Thus, management measures for biodiversity, such as ecological compensation areas, are needed in agricultural landscapes with a millennial history of human impact, such as the non-boreal European lowlands. Our study supports the hypothesis that species coexistence is maximized at an intermediate level of disturbances. For instance, species richness decreased when fire exceeded the quasi-natural variability observed during the Mesolithic times. Under a more natural disturbance regime, rather closed Pinus sylvestris and mixed oak forests would prevail.

Influence of experimental soil disturbances on the diversity of plants in agricultural grasslands

Aims and Methods Disturbance is supposed to play an important role for biodiversity and ecosystem stability as described by the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH), which predicts highest species richness at intermediate levels of disturbances. In this study, we tested the effects of artificial soil disturbances on diversity of annual and perennial vascular plants and bryophytes in a field experiment in 86 agricultural grasslands differing in land use in two regions of Germany. On each grassland, we implemented four treatments: three treatments differing in application time of soil disturbances and one control. One year after experimental disturbance, we recorded vegetation and measured biomass productivity and bare ground. We analysed the disturbance response taking effects of region and land-use-accompanied disturbance regimes into account.Important Findings Region and land-use type strongly determined plant species richness. Experimental disturbances had small positive effects on the species richness of annuals, but none on perennials or bryophytes. Bare ground was positively related to species richness of bryophytes. However, exceeding the creation of 12% bare ground further disturbance had a detrimental effect on bryophyte species richness, which corresponds to the IDH. As biomass productivity was unaffected by disturbance our results indicate that the disturbance effect on species richness of annuals was not due to decreased overall productivity, but rather due to short-term lowered inter- and intraspecific competition at the newly created microsites.Generally, our results highlight the importance of soil disturbances for species richness of annual plants and bryophytes in agricultural grasslands. However, most grasslands were disturbed naturally or by land-use practices and our additional experimental soil disturbances only had a small short-term effect. Overall, total plant diversity in grasslands seemed to be more limited by the availability of propagules rather than by suitable microsites for germination. Thus, nature conservation efforts to increase grassland diversity should focus on overcoming propagule limitation, for instance by additional sowing of seeds, while the creation of additional open patches by disturbance might only be appropriate where natural disturbances are scarce.

Análisis del proceso de creación de los Parques Nacionales en Argentina

Este artículo tiene por objetivo analizar y caracterizar el proceso histórico de creación de los parques nacionales en Argentina, desde sus inicios hasta la actualidad, por parte de la autoridad de aplicación, la Administración de Parques Nacionales, tomando como marco conceptual las principales corrientes teóricas en conservación que se fueron sucediendo a lo largo del tiempo. Junto a las fechas de creación de los parques nacionales, su posición geográfica y las ecorregiones donde se localizan, permitieron establecer tres períodos que estuvieron signados por la implementación de políticas públicas en la materia, enmarcadas dentro de los lineamientos generales de dichas corrientes teóricas. Asimismo, se esboza un breve estado de la situación de la preservación en las ecorregiones de nuestro país y, finalmente, se exponen las conclusiones.

Análisis del proceso de creación de los Parques Nacionales en Argentina

Este artículo tiene por objetivo analizar y caracterizar el proceso histórico de creación de los parques nacionales en Argentina, desde sus inicios hasta la actualidad, por parte de la autoridad de aplicación, la Administración de Parques Nacionales, tomando como marco conceptual las principales corrientes teóricas en conservación que se fueron sucediendo a lo largo del tiempo. Junto a las fechas de creación de los parques nacionales, su posición geográfica y las ecorregiones donde se localizan, permitieron establecer tres períodos que estuvieron signados por la implementación de políticas públicas en la materia, enmarcadas dentro de los lineamientos generales de dichas corrientes teóricas. Asimismo, se esboza un breve estado de la situación de la preservación en las ecorregiones de nuestro país y, finalmente, se exponen las conclusiones.

Análisis del proceso de creación de los Parques Nacionales en Argentina

Este artículo tiene por objetivo analizar y caracterizar el proceso histórico de creación de los parques nacionales en Argentina, desde sus inicios hasta la actualidad, por parte de la autoridad de aplicación, la Administración de Parques Nacionales, tomando como marco conceptual las principales corrientes teóricas en conservación que se fueron sucediendo a lo largo del tiempo. Junto a las fechas de creación de los parques nacionales, su posición geográfica y las ecorregiones donde se localizan, permitieron establecer tres períodos que estuvieron signados por la implementación de políticas públicas en la materia, enmarcadas dentro de los lineamientos generales de dichas corrientes teóricas. Asimismo, se esboza un breve estado de la situación de la preservación en las ecorregiones de nuestro país y, finalmente, se exponen las conclusiones.

Análisis del proceso de creación de los Parques Nacionales en Argentina

Este artículo tiene por objetivo analizar y caracterizar el proceso histórico de creación de los parques nacionales en Argentina, desde sus inicios hasta la actualidad, por parte de la autoridad de aplicación, la Administración de Parques Nacionales, tomando como marco conceptual las principales corrientes teóricas en conservación que se fueron sucediendo a lo largo del tiempo. Junto a las fechas de creación de los parques nacionales, su posición geográfica y las ecorregiones donde se localizan, permitieron establecer tres períodos que estuvieron signados por la implementación de políticas públicas en la materia, enmarcadas dentro de los lineamientos generales de dichas corrientes teóricas. Asimismo, se esboza un breve estado de la situación de la preservación en las ecorregiones de nuestro país y, finalmente, se exponen las conclusiones.