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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Atlantic Forest"”.

  1. Anthropogenic impacts on Cerrado conservation and biodiversity and carbon restoration of Atlantic Forest

    Coelho, Alex Josélio PiresUniversidade Federal de Viçosa2021

    … on biodiversity conservation of Cerrado and Atlantic Forest restoration, two Brazilian hotspots for biodiversity conservation in the world, remains poorly studied. Therefore, this thesis has five main objectives, distributed in five chapters: (i) to evaluate whether giant earthworm extraction …

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  2. Fine Characterization of Leafing Phenology in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest by Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing

    Bell, James B2024

    <p>Tropical forests provide important ecosystem functions in the global biosphere, but they remain among the most poorly understood elements of land surface models, especially with regard to their seasonal dynamics. For instance, in seasonally dry forests, the pattern of the annual green-up in …

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  3. Intensification of agriculture and livestock based on low carbon technologies in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest

    Silveira, Júlia Graziela daUniversidade Federal de Viçosa2022

    The Amazon and the Atlantic Forest are Brazilian biomes that have undergone intense land use and cover changes, marked by the loss of native forest and the expansion of agriculture and livestock. These are areas with potential use for intensification based on low-carbon technologies, but this …

    brazil-ufv Repository record

  4. Native forest tree conservation in tropical agroforests: Case study of cacao farms in the Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia, Brazil

    McGinty, Meghan Micheline2011

    Agroforests are model systems for ecological conservation in tropical agricultural landscapes because they integrate biodiversity conservation and rural livelihoods. Whether agroforests are long-term solutions for conserving biodiversity in agricultural landscapes may depend sapling regeneration of …

    columbia-diss Repository record

  5. Análise da composição e da distribuição geográfica da avifauna das restingas do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

    Reis, Henrique Bastos RajãoUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro1998

    … wide south-American distribution (85,31 %), Atlantic Forest endemics (14%) and study area endemics (0,69%). The dominance of widely distributed elements, those found at more than two morphoclimatic domains, shows that the studied avifauna is composed by generalists species, which use a great …

    brazil-uerj Repository record

  6. Environmental and landscape determinants of population genetic structure and diversity of the great fruit-eating bat, Artibeus lituratus, in Atlantic forest remnants in South America

    McCulloch, Eve SutherlandBiological Sciences2022

    … structure in highly fragmented Alto Paraná Atlantic forest in eastern Paraguay to that in mostly contiguous forest in neighboring Misiones, Argentina. Results indicated weak genetic differentiation, and no significant correlation between genetic and geographic distance in fragmented or …

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  7. Padrões atuais de distribuição de aves florestais na região sul do Estado do Espírito Santo, Brasil

    Bauer, ClaudiaUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro1999

    … of current distribution patterns of resident forest birds in southern Espírito Santo state. Inasmuch, a qualitative inventory of the avifauna was conducted in diverse forest fragments within the study area. Results were compared with distributional data for the study area, adjacent regions, …

    brazil-uerj Repository record

  8. Automatic land-cover-classification derived from high-resolution Ikonos satellite image in the urban atlantic forest in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil by means of an objects-oriented approach

    Guanaes Rego, Luiz Felipe

    … city of Rio de Janeiro carried out a Land-cover forest classification with visual interpretation using SPOT data. This work produced a compatible thematic map in the scale 1:50,000. The scale of these maps permit to have a global vision of the land change cover but unfortunately do not correspond …

    freiburg-diss Repository record

  9. Revisão taxonômica de Dipsas Laurentis, 1768 (Serpentes, Colubridae) de ocorrência na Mata Atlântica

    Porto, MarcovanUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro1993

    The taxonomic revision of Dipsas from the Atlantic forest Is given based on morphological and hemipennial data as well as on geographical distribution. The involved species are: Dipsas albifrons (Sauvage, 1884), D. catesby (Sentzen, 1796), D. incerta (Jan, 1863), D. petersi Hoge & Romano, 1975, D. …

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  10. Comparative Phylogeography of Glassfrogs (Vitreorama) Endemic to the Brazilian Altantic Rainforest

    Spanos, Zoe2016

    <p>The Brazilian Atlantic Forest harbors one of the most diverse faunas of the world, including 2-3% of all known vertebrate species. Understanding the role of both climate and landscape in shaping current biodiversity patterns has been the focus of many recent phylogeographic studies. Here I …

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  11. Recursos alimentares de primatas da Mata Atlântica e um olhar sobre os maiores primatas deste bioma: mudanças climáticas, principais recursos de plantas e habitat

    Vasquez, Vagner LacerdaUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte2025

    … to habitat loss and climate change. Historical deforestation and fragmentation, combined with the high primate richness and vulnerability to climate change, characterize the Atlantic Forest as essential for their conservation. This thesis comprises three chapters. In the first one, we reviewed the …

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  12. Past and future responses of soil water to climate change in tropical and subtropical rainforest systems in South America

    Márquez Arévalo, Santiago MariaUniversidade Federal de Viçosa2023

    The Tropical Longleaf Forests Biome in South America (Biome 1 according to the WWF classification), composed mainly by the Amazon Rainforest and the Atlantic Forest, covers a representative portion of the planet's biodiversity. In the last decades (2001-2021) significant alterations in the use of …

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  13. Seasonal variation, spatial distribution and decision–making system to control of the Leucoptera coffeella in coffee arabica fields

    Walerius, Adriana HelenaUniversidade Federal de Viçosa2022

    … its dynamics in coffee crops located in the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado biomes. We aim to determine the spatial distribution of Leucoptera coffeella in coffee crops in the Cerrado through geostatistical analyses and propose a decision-making control system based on management zones. L. …

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  14. Population structure of the lizard Ecpleopus gaudichaudii coincides with a biogeographic barrier - the Doce River

    Garretson, Alexander J2023

    … a lizard species endemic to the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. For that, I assembled ddRadseq sequences from 48 individuals across much of the range of the <em>E. gaudichaudii </em>and analyzed its population structure. I created an intraspecific phylogeny for this group utilizing …

    cuny Repository record

  15. Parque Natural Municipal de Cabedelo: atividades humanas e impactos ambientais

    Lima, Wendel Pereira de.Geociências2016

    … sandbank, reminiscent of ecosystem area of Atlantic Forest, which must be preserved and protected, harmonizing activities human with the conservation of ecological functions. Because of these aspects is that the Cabedelo Municipal Natural Park is considered a Municipal Unit of Integral …

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  16. Ciclo de muda de passeriformes do sub-bosque de um trecho de mata de encosta na Serra dos Órgãos, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

    Mallet-Rodriques, FranciscoUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro1998

    … from July 1995 to June 1997 in a section of Atlantic forest in the foothills of Serra dos Órgãos, Rio de Janeiro. Nonaccidental molt was recorded 358 times among 940 captures or 56 species. The molting period was from January to May with little molt recorded outside this period and without …

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  17. Variação espacial e temporal na estrutura do habitat e prefência de microhabitat por pequenos mamíferos na Mata Atlântica

    Freitas, Simone Rodrigues deUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro1998

    … a vicinity of Serra dos Órgãos National Park at Atlantic Forest and is occupied by several houses that can influence somehow animal and plant communities. This work is divided in four main topics: concepts definition, new method description, effects of spatial and temporal scales on habitat …

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  18. Cocoa yield, nutrients and shade trees in traditional cocoa agroforests in a climate change context: a case study in Bahia, Brazil

    Gateau, Lauranne Aude MarinaUniversity of Cambridge2018

    … Furthermore, growing cocoa is a main cause of deforestation. However, in the state of Bahia, Northeast Brazil, cocoa is grown in traditional agroforests called ‘cabrucas’ which maintain a forest cover. Cocoa, an understorey crop, is planted under the shade of native Atlantic Forest trees and …

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  19. New taxa and phylogenetic placement of Asterinales from Brazil

    Firmino, André LuizUniversidade Federal de Viçosa2013

    … to Asterinales were collected in areas of Atlantic forest of Brazil in field trips during 2009–2012. The field trips were conducted in four Brazilian states and six areas: Minas Gerais (Mata do Paraíso, Mata do Seu Nico, Mata da Biologia and near Nova Lima), Espírito Santo (Reserva Natural …

    brazil-ufv Repository record

  20. SUBSTRATOS ALTERNATIVOS NA ACLIMATIZAÇÃO DE Phargmipedium sargentianum ROLFE (ORCHIDACEAE)

    Pereira, Sabrina SilvaUniversidade Federal da Paraíba2017

    … a terrestrial species, endemic to the Atlantic Forest, a species in the list of endangered species in Brazil. In this study experiments were carried out with a view to seeking a proposal for use of alternative substrates for Sphagnum, in the development of seedlings P. sargentianum …

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