Basal area and hillslope position impacts to hydraulic redistribution in a coast redwood forest.

In forest ecosystems, the interplay among plant-driven processes and anthropogenic activities profoundly influences water balance dynamics. Hydraulic redistribution is one plant-driven process that can provide a large proportion of a plant's daily water. However, critical gaps exist in our knowledge of hydraulic redistribution including how forest management processes, like thinning, and site-specific factors like basal area and hillslope position, may affect it.

Endoparasite Communities of Fish at Different Trophic Levels in the Western Brazilian Amazon: Human, Environmental and Seasonal Influence.

Purpose: The composition of the fish parasite community depends on several factors related to the environment, the host and its biology. This study aimed to evaluate the influence of environmental factors in anthropized and conserved areas on the endoparasite community structure in fish at different trophic levels, in addition to verifying that some species of Digenea are indicators of conserved environments.

Methods: The study was carried out in the Upper Juruá River region, Western Amazon, Brazil.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome and COVID-19 under the hierarchy of the urban network of municipalities in the state of Acre, western Brazilian Amazon region, 2020-2021: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The Respiratory Syndromes Surveillance System was created by the Brazilian Ministry of Health in 2000 to monitor influenza in this country. With the emergence of the new coronavirus pandemic, it became incorporated into the surveillance network for influenza and other respiratory viruses.

Objective: To analyze the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the state of Acre through its hierarchical urban network.

Long-term hydrological response to forest harvest during seasonal low flow: Potential implications for current forest practices.

Seasonal changes in the magnitude and duration of streamflow can have important implications for aquatic species, drinking water supplies, and water quality. In many regions, including the Pacific Northwest (U.S.

Diversity of Anopheles spp. (Diptera: Culicidae) in an Amazonian Urban Area.

The genus Anopheles encompasses several species considered as vectors of human infecting Plasmodium. Environmental changes are responsible for behavior changes in these vectors and therefore the pattern of malaria transmission. To better understand the dynamics of malaria transmission, this study aimed at identify the species of adult anophelines found in a malaria endemic urban area of the Amazon region, Mâncio Lima, located in the Acre State Brazil.

Contribution of fish farming ponds to the production of immature Anopheles spp. in a malaria-endemic Amazonian town.

Background: In the past decade fish farming has become an important economic activity in the Occidental Brazilian Amazon, where the number of new fish farms is rapidly increasing. One of the primary concerns with this phenomenon is the contribution of fishponds to the maintenance and increase of the anopheline mosquito population, and the subsequent increase in human malaria burden. This study reports the results of a 2-year anopheline abundance survey in fishponds and natural water bodies in a malaria-endemic area in northwest Brazil.

Epidemic and Endemic Malaria Transmission Related to Fish Farming Ponds in the Amazon Frontier.

Fish farming in the Amazon has been stimulated as a solution to increase economic development. However, poorly managed fish ponds have been sometimes associated with the presence of Anopheles spp. and consequently, with malaria transmission.

[Algal flora of Lake Amapá in Rio Branco, Acre State, II: chlorophyta].

In this study, 15 samples were collected on a bi-monthly basis, during the period between March and May 1994, and 3 additional samples were collected, one in each of the months of July, October and November 1994. All the samples were collected in Lake Amapá (lat. 10 degrees 2'36"S, long.

[Algal flora of Lake Amapá in Rio Branco, acre state, I: euglenophyceae].

The Euglenophyceae flora of Lake Amapá I, Rio Branco, Acre State, Brazil, constitutes a contribution to the phycological inventory of the State of Acre. It is based on the study of 15 samples collected with plankton net and by passing an open flask in areas with dense plankton concentrations. Samples were prepared and preserved with Transeau solution.