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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...
Ecological aspects of Aquatic and Semi-Aquatic Heteroptera in East Maranhense
Barros, Francisca Barbar e Silva; Azevêdo, Carlos Augusto Silva de; Franco, Cleilton LimaThis article has the purpose of describing suborder Heteroptera’s ecological aspects and associating them with some abiotic factors and environmental particulars. The gathering was made in six rivers, with a 50m transect divided among five 10m spots, where species were ghathered using an aquatic entomological D-net (rapiché), a sieve and manual scavenging on substrates incluinding leaves, trunks, macrophytes, r...