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Mastering the Art of Penalty Kick Defence: An Exploratory Study on the Key Fact...
Annes, Daniel; Aleixo, Alexandre; Mendes, Jorge; Chaves, Francisco; Ferreira, Paulo; Bragança, LuisPenalty saves in football are crucial for determining match outcomes and are widely acknowledged as one of the most intense and demanding situations in the sport. Goalkeepers face the formidable challenge of interpreting opponents' cues and responding effectively to prevent goals during penalty kicks. This study aims to rigorously analyse the various factors influencing goalkeepers' success in defending penalty...
Physical activity levels in the university community: A pilot study for the EAS...
Vilela, Guilherme; Machado, Isabel; Aleixo, Alexandre; João, Paulo; Pinto, GraçaPhysical inactivity has been linked to noncommunicable diseases and increasing global mortality rates, highlighting the importance of assessing physical activity levels across different populations (Gilchrist et al., 2020). The aim of this study was to analyse the levels of physical activity in the university community according to gender (female vs. male), educational background (12th year vs. undergraduate vs...
Physical activity levels in participants of UTAD physical exercise program: Acc...
Vilela, Guilherme; Machado, Isabel; Aleixo, Alexandre; Vaz, Luís; Pinto, Graça; Rainho, Conceição; Leite, NunoPhysical activity (PA) comprises any activity that requires caloric expenditure, which may vary in magnitude, duration, and frequency and plays a crucial role in maintaining optimal health. On the other hand, sedentary lifestyles have been associated with the development of several conditions, including diabetes and obesity (Caspersen et al., 1985). Assessing daily physical activity levels is essential for comb...
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research
Carvalho, Raquel L.; Resende, Angelica F.; Barlow, Jos; França, Filipe M.; Moura, Mario R.; Maciel, Rafaella; Alves-Martins, Fernanda; Shutt, JackBiodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain underst...
Phylogenomic analyses reveal non-monophyly of the antbird genera Herpsilochmus ...
Bravo, Gustavo A.; Whitney, Bret M.; Belmonte-Lopes, Ricardo; Bornschein, Marcos R. [UNESP]; Aristizábal, Natalia; Beco, Renata; Battilana, JaquelineMade available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:42:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-07-01; The family Thamnophilidae is a species-rich Neotropical radiation of passerine birds. Current classification of its 235 species is mostly based on morphological similarities, but recent studies integrating comprehensive phenotypic and phylogenetic data have redefined taxonomic limits of several taxa. He...
AVONET : morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds
Tobias, Joseph A.; Sheard, Catherine; Pigot, Alex L.; Devenish, Adam J. M.; Yang, Jingyi; Sayol, Ferran; Neate‐Clegg, Montague H. C.; Alioravainen, NicoFunctional traits offer a rich quantitative framework for developing and testing theories in evolutionary biology, ecology and ecosystem science. However, the potential of functional traits to drive theoretical advances and refine models of global change can only be fully realised when species-level information is complete. Here we present the AVONET dataset containing comprehensive functional trait data for al...
Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful ...
Ceriaco, Luis M. P.; Gutierrez, Eliecer E.; Dubois, Alain; Simon Abdala, Cristian; Alqarni, Abdulaziz S.; Adler, Kraig; Adriano, Edson A.; Aescht, ErnaMade available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T12:17:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-11-23; Villanova Univ, Dept Biol, Villanova, PA 19085 USA; Museu Nacl Hist Nat & Ciencia, Lisbon, Portugal; Univ Brasilia, Dept Zool, Inst Ciencias Biol, BR-70910900 Brasilia, DF, Brazil; Smithsonian Inst, Natl Museum Nat Hist, Washington, DC 20560 USA; Sorbonne Univ, Museum Natl Hist Nat, ISYEB, Paris, France...
Annotated checklist of the birds of Brazil by the Brazilian ornithological reco...
Piacentini, Vítor de Queiroz; Aleixo, Alexandre; Agne, Carlos Eduardo; Maurício, Giovanni Nachtigall; Pacheco, José Fernando; Brav, Gustavo A.Since 2005, the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee (CBRO) has published updated checklists of Brazilian birds almost every year. Herein, we present a completely new and annotated version of our checklist. For the first time, we list all bird subspecies known from Brazil that are currently accepted by at least one key ornithological reference work. The inclusion of the subspecies should be seen as a synt...
Quaternary climate changes as speciation drivers in the Amazon floodplains
Thom, Gregory; Xue, Alexander T.; Sawakuchi, André Oliveira; Ribas, Camila Cherem; Hickerson, Michael J.; Aleixo, Alexandre; Miyaki, Cristina YumiThe role of climate as a speciation driver in the Amazon has long been discussed. Phylogeographic studies have failed to recover synchronous demographic responses across taxa, although recent evidence supports the interaction between rivers and climate in promoting speciation. Most studies, however, are biased toward upland forest organisms, while other habitats are poorly explored and could hold valuable infor...
Combining phylogeography and landscape genetics of Xenopipo atronitens (Aves: P...
Capurucho, João Marcos Guimarães; Cornelius, Cintia; Borges, Sérgio Henrique; Cohn-Haft, Mario; Aleixo, Alexandre; Metzger, Jean PaulOpen vegetation (campinas and campinaranas) associated with white sand patches occurs in the form of islands in a forested matrix throughout the Amazon basin. Bird species restricted to these habitats have patchy distributions, although connectivity may have been influenced by past glacial cycles as a result of the substitution of forest by savanna. Because these landscape changes are a matter of debate in the ...