9 articles in this issue
João Vitor Roque Guerrero, Michel Eustáquio Dantas Chaves, Rodrigo Cesário Justino, Guilherme Augusto Verola Mataveli, Luiz Eduardo Moschini
In the current scenario of increasing environmental awareness and seeking for methods to protect the environment, the preservation of both surface and underground water has gained prominence in the media and science. This research aimed to generate a char... see more
Fellipe Ragner Vicente Assis, Joedla Rodrigues de Lima, José Evanaldo Rangel Silva, Izaque Francisco Candeia Mendonça
The environmental vulnerability index is a vital tool in the investigation and identification of factors which may generate environmental degradation in ecosystems, such as the watersheds. In view of what has been exposed here, the objective of this study... see more
Amanda Cerqueira, Rodolfo Antônio Figueiredo
Mortality and the disappearance of bees have been increasingly frequent in the world, consequently affecting the beekeeping activity that has significant importance in the environmental, social and economic spheres in Brazil. The objective of this researc... see more
Maíra Dias Mangueira Bastos, Victória Laysna dos Anjos Santos, Arlan de Assis Gonsalves, Cleônia Roberta Melo Araújo
Considering the therapeutic importance of the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor drugs, as well, enzyme regenerators drugs, in cases of organophosphate poisoning. The activity of aromatic aldehydes and their oximes was evaluated against human erythrocyte acet... see more
Vitória Viviane Ferreira Aquino, José Galberto Martins Costa, Elissandra Couras Angélico, Rosália Severo Medeiros, Maria de Fatima Araujo Lucena, Onaldo Guedes Rodrigues
Antioxidants are compounds that, at optimal concentrations in relation to oxidable substrates, react with free radicals preventing or reducing oxidative stress. Many diseases and degenerative processes are associated with overproduction of free radicals. ... see more
Ana Paula Mendes Bueno, Maria da Graça Vasconcelos, Carine Mendonça Francisco, Luiz Alfredo Pavanin
The organisms known as bioindicators are used to assess changes in the aquatic environment. Incorporated chemical substances in natural environment interfere in the development of these organisms. The research had as objective to avaluate the water qualit... see more
Marllon Santos de Carvalho, Kátia Daniela Ribeiro, Raner Moacir Moreira, Alex Magalhães de Almeida
This research evaluated the concentrations of metals of Doce River water after the rupture of Fundão Dam, located at Bento Rodrigues District, in Mariana City, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Water samples were collected at a source upstream of the rupture site (P1... see more
Erich de Freitas Mariano, Luana Regial Alves Martins
This study aims to make an inventory of bird species from Parque Estadual do Pico do Jabre, Paraíba, listing trophic guilds and forest habitat dependencies. In 12 days of survey, 240 Mackinnon lists was builted. Tyrannidae was the richest bird family, wit... see more
Carlos de Melo e Silva-Neto, José Neiva Mesquita-Neto, Bruno Bastos Gonçalves, Lucas Marques de Camargos
A cigarrinha Poekilloptera phalaenoides L. (Auchenorrhyncha: Flatidae) é uma conhecida espécie dentre culturas agrícolas e de interesse econômico devido os danos causados em atividades agrícolas. Observando fragmentos de mata estacional semidecidual, mata... see more