Semiaquatic bugs (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerromorpha) from Parque Natural Municipal das Andorinhas, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais state, Brazil by Gustavo Lisboa Vieira Machado, Oséias Martins Magalhães, Marco Antonio Alves Carneiro, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo Moreira

“…We present a survey of the semiaquatic bugs (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerromorpha) from Parque Natural Municipal das Andorinhas, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais State, southeastern Brazil. Thirteen species are recorded from the area based on regular collection events, namely Brachymetra albinervus (Amyot & Serville, 1843); Cylindrostethus palmaris Drake & Harris, 1934; Halobatopsis delectus Drake & Harris, 1941; Ha. platensis (Berg, 1879); Metrobates plaumanni genikos Nieser, 1993; Neogerris kontos Nieser, 1994 (Gerridae); Hydrometra fruhstorferi Hungerford & Evans, 1934 (Hydrometridae); Platyvelia brachialis (Stål, 1860); Rhagovelia macta Drake & Carvalho, 1955; R. robusta Gould, 1931; R. sbolos Nieser & Melo, 1997; R. triangula Drake, 1953; and R. trianguloides Nieser & Melo, 1997 (Veliidae).…”
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FROM LONELINESS TO COOPERATION: COPING STRATEGIES OF INTENSIVE CARE NURSING WORKERS by Estefânia da Silva Oliveira, Alexa Pupiara Flores Coelho Centenaro, Cledir Tânia França Garcia, Cíntia Maria Lovato Flores, Gianfábio Pimentel Franco, Júlia Glowacki

“…Method: qualitative descriptive study, with nursing workers from three Intensive Care Centers in a southern state of Brazil. Data collected between June 2019 and July 2021 through semi-structured interviews and submitted to thematic content analysis. …”
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Cercyon Leach, 1817 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae) from Brazil: new species and records by Bruno Clarkson, Kleber M. Mise, Lucia M. Almeida

“…Moure, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil, revealed a new species from Atlantic Rain Forest biome in Paraná State (Southern Brazil) and new records. Cercyon (Cercyon) curi sp. nov. is herein described and illustrated, belonging to the Neotropical C. variegatus species group. …”
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Impact of paclobutrazol on gibberellin-like substances and soluble carbohydrates in pear trees grown in tropical semiarid by Kellem Sousa, Paulo Lopes, Ítalo Cavalcante, Jenilton Cunha, Luan Silva, Emmanuella Pereira, Jackson Lobo

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Floristic composition of a Subtropical bog, Eastern Plateau from southern Brazil by Luis Baptista, Maria Lorscheitter, Caroline Scherer

“…The very well preserved bog named Banhado Amarelo (29°19’ S, 50°08’ W) is located on the eastern Plateau of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil. A total of 262 specific and infra-specific taxa were listed, including six macroscopic fungi, 10 lichens, 21 mat forming algae, 57 bryophytes, 12 pteridophytes, two gymnosperms and 154 angiosperms. …”
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First molecular detection of Eimeria spp. in eared doves (Zenaida auriculata) from Brazil by Alessandra Taroda, Luiz Daniel de Barros, Mércia de Seixas, Sérgio Tosi Cardim, João Pedro Sasse, Ana Flávia Minutti, Odilon Vidotto, João Luis Garcia

“…Two hundred and fourteen birds were trap-capture in different regions of Londrina city, Paraná state, Southern Brazil. Fecal samples were collected, and DNA extraction was performed. …”
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Demography and health of the Xavante Indians of Central Brazil by Luciene Guimarães de Souza, Ricardo Ventura Santos, Heloisa Pagliaro, Marilia Sá Carvalho, Nancy May Flowers, Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr.

“…This study investigates the demographic and health behavior of the Xavante Indians of Mato Grosso State, Central Brazil. Data covering the period 1999 to 2004 was collected using information from household censuses and vital statistics. …”
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Angiosperms from the Araripe National Forest, Ceará, Brazil by Suelma Ribeiro-Silva, Marcelo Medeiros, Beatriz Gomes, Emídia Seixas, Maria da Silva

“…This study provides a species list of the angiosperms from the Araripe National Forest (ANF) in the south part of Ceará state, northeastern Brazil. The floristic survey recorded 188 species from 55 Angiosperm families. …”
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Community structure and comparative analysis of the woody component of a cerrado remnant in Southeastern Brazil by Katia Losano Ishara, Rita de Cassia Sindrônia Maimoni-Rodella

“…The aims of the present work were to carry out a floristic-structural study of the shrubby-arboreal component of a savanna fragment (cerrado sensu stricto) in São Paulo State, Southeastern Brazil, and to compare with other areas. …”
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Reproductive phenology of Passiflora cincinnata Mast. in the semi-arid region of Bahia State, Brazil, based on herbarium data and IDW interpolation by Luiz Victor de Almeida Dantas, Vitor Alberto de Matos Pereira, Isiara Silva Menezes, Lia d’Afonsêca Pedreira de Miranda, Ligia Silveira Funch

“…ABSTRACT We investigated intensity and seasonality of the reproductive phenology of Passiflora cincinnata Mast. and estimated its flowering and fruiting periods by interpolation using Inverse Distance Weighting, for the first time in phenology, based on herbarium collections from Bahia State, Northeastern Brazil. Data from 249 exsiccates with flowers and/or fruits were analyzed to estimate the amplitude of flowering and fruiting and test the seasonality using the circular statistics. …”
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Citrus Sudden Death in Brazil by Stephen H. Futch, M. J. Beretta, Kenneth S. Derrick

“…The disease was first reported in the northern part of the citrus production area located in the state of Minas Gerais and has since spread into the northern part of Sao Paulo State, which is the largest citrus-producing state in Brazil. This northern citrus production region has a hotter climate and is subject to greater moisture stress than the majority of Sao Paulo State. …”
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Trade-offs and synergies in agricultural landscapes: A study on soil-related ecosystem services in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest by Gabriel Spínola Garcia Távora, Ana Paula Dias Turetta, Antonio Soares da Silva, Bruno Francisco Teixeira Simões, Udo Nehren

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Nematological survey in coffee nursery in Espirito Santo state, Brazil by Maria Cecília Fonseca Scarpi, Ângelo Oliveira Gonçalves, Antônio Fernando de Souza, Guilherme de Resende Camara, Willian Bucker Moraes, Fábio Ramos Alves

“…ABSTRACT Despite the important role of coffee production in the economy of Espirito Santo, the second largest coffee producing state in Brazil, productivity is still below the Brazilian average. …”
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Divisão Racional de Terras: um Estudo de Caso em Londrina, PR by Pedro Höfig, Elvio Giasson, Glauco M. F. Silva, Tiago Broetto

“…The aim of this paper was to define a conduct line for the treatment of questions referent to the lands division and verify if the fragmentation proposed in a rural property at Londrina, Paraná state, in Brazil, was fair, considering as a critery, the land suitability. …”
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The Brazilian Pampa: A Fragile Biome by Valdir Marcos Stefenon, Italo Filippi Teixeira, Ana Julia Teixeira Senna, Adriano Luis Schünemann, Frederico Costa Beber Vieira, Vilmar Alves Pereira, Luiz Fernando Wurdig Roesch

“…The Pampa biome, located in the southernmost state of Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, illustrates the direct and indirect interdependence of humans and biodiversity. …”
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Internet Móvel nas Organizações: Fatores de Adoção e Impactos sobre o Desempenho by Guilherme Lerch Lunardi, Décio Bittencourt Dolci, Jonatas Wendland

“…The study was characterized as an exploratory quantitative research conducted with 96 firms from Rio Grande do Sul state in Brazil. We used the IT adoption model proposed by Lunardi, Dolci and Maçada (2010) as the main foundation. …”
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Yet another new species from one of the best-studied neotropical areas: Plantago humboldtiana (Plantaginaceae), an extremely narrow endemic new species from a waterfall in southern... by Gustavo Hassemer, Nina Rønsted

“…This article presents and describes Plantago humboldtiana, an extremely narrow endemic rheophytic new species from a waterfall in Corupá, Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil. The new species is unique in presenting a combination of type-G antrorse trichomes on scapes, pendulous inflorescences and 1-seeded pyxidia. …”
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Pyriproxyfen and the microcephaly epidemic in Brazil - an ecological approach to explore the hypothesis of their association by Maria de Fatima P Militão de Albuquerque, Wayner V de Souza, Antônio da Cruz G Mendes, Tereza M Lyra, Ricardo AA Ximenes, Thália VB Araújo, Cynthia Braga, Demócrito B Miranda-Filho, Celina MT Martelli, Laura C Rodrigues

“…We present the results of a geographical analysis of the association between the prevalence of microcephaly confirmed by Fenton growth charts and the type of larvicide used in the municipalities that were home to the mothers of the affected newborns in the metropolitan region of Recife in Pernambuco, the state in Brazil where the epidemic was first detected. …”
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Disparity in the use of Alzheimer's disease treatment in Southern Brazil by Maisa De Marco, Ana Laura Brandi, Andrei Bieger, Bárbara Krug, Analuiza Camozzato, Paulo D. Picon, Marcia Lorena Fagundes Chaves, Raphael Machado Castilhos

“…We reviewed all granted requests for AD treatment in the public health system in October 2021 in the Rio Grande do Sul (RS) state, Southern Brazil. We performed a spatial autocorrelation analysis with the population-adjusted patients receiving any AD medication as the outcome and correlated it with several socioeconomic variables. 2382 patients with AD were being treated during the period analyzed. …”
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The invisibility of young people in family farming: a gender perspective in the semi-arid region of Ceará, Brazil by Rabelo Laudemira Silva, Burte Julien Daniel Pierre, Boillot Élie Anatole Simon, Gasmi Hela, Romão Oliveira Wellington, Fradi Fajr, Rios Mariana Machado, Martins Eduardo S.P.R.

“…The analysis is based on a participatory diagnosis, multisectoral interviews and surveys in thirty-three communities located in the center of the Ceará State (Northeastern Brazil). The research reveals that the main factor of this migratory process is the lack of appreciation of family farming by the qualified rural youth, who participate little in decision-making. …”
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