Publications by authors named "Luis M da Costa"

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  • Greenhouse gas emissions are primarily responsible for rising global temperatures, with Brazil's major contributions coming from forestry, land use, and agriculture sectors.
  • The study analyzed two GHG inventories (Climate TRACE and SEEG) to assess carbon removal's impact on Brazil's national emissions and investigated how seasonal factors like precipitation and photosynthesis affect these estimates.
  • Results showed significant differences in GHG inventory estimates, especially in the forestry sector, with the Caatinga biome contributing nearly 50% to Brazil's carbon removals in 2022, emphasizing the importance of halting deforestation for achieving net-zero emissions.
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Recent collecting efforts in the upper Malagarazi basin (2013-2022) allowed for an integrative study based on qualitative (colour), quantitative (meristic and metric), and barcoding gene [mtDNA, cytochrome c oxidase (COI)] data of specimens similar to Enteromius sp. 'ascutelatus', being a previously identified, potentially, new species. Based on these data, the present study confirms its identification as a new species for science, which is here formally described as Enteromius nzigidaherai sp.

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  • The integration of landscape vulnerability and local demands is crucial for effectively restoring ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes through agroforestry systems.
  • The developed spatial hierarchization methodology serves as a decision support tool to identify priority areas for agroforestry interventions, using Multicriteria Decision Analysis in GIS software.
  • The resulting model categorizes areas based on their suitability for agroforestry into four priority levels and offers insights into managing land use pressures, conserving natural habitats, and addressing local agricultural needs.
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The detection of Solar-Induced chlorophyll Fluorescence (SIF) by remote sensing has opened new perspectives on ecosystem studies and other related aspects such as photosynthesis. In general, fluorescence high-resolution studies were limited to proximal sensors, but new approaches were developed to improve SIF resolution by combining OCO-2 with MODIS orbital observations, improving its resolution from 0.5° to 0.

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Background: The recent studies of the variations in the atmospheric column-averaged CO concentration ([Formula: see text]) above croplands and forests show a negative correlation between [Formula: see text]and Sun Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence (SIF) and confirmed that photosynthesis is the main regulator of the terrestrial uptake for atmospheric CO. The remote sensing techniques in this context are very important to observe this relation, however, there is still a time gap in orbital data, since the observation is not daily. Here we analyzed the effects of several variables related to the photosynthetic capacity of vegetation on [Formula: see text] above São Paulo state during the period from 2015 to 2019 and propose a daily model to estimate the natural changes in atmospheric CO.

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The human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER) family of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are among the first layer of molecules that receive, interpret, and transduce signals leading to distinct cancer cell phenotypes. Since the discovery of the tooth-lid factor-later characterized as the epidermal growth factor (EGF)-and its high-affinity binding EGF receptor, HER kinases have emerged as one of the commonly upregulated or hyperactivated or mutated kinases in epithelial tumors, thus allowing HER1-3 family members to regulate several hallmarks of cancer development and progression. Each member of the HER family exhibits shared and unique structural features to engage multiple receptor activation modes, leading to a range of overlapping and distinct phenotypes.

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The recovery of walking function following spinal cord injury (SCI) is of major importance to patients and clinicians. In experimental SCI studies, a rat model is widely used to assess walking function, following thoracic spinal cord lesion. In an effort to provide a resource which investigators can refer to when seeking the most appropriate functional assay, the authors have compiled and categorized the behavioral assessments used to measure the deficits and recovery of the gait in thoracic SCI rats.

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