Fifty years of ascidian biodiversity research in São Sebastião, Brazil

2012 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.M. Dias ◽  
R.M. Rocha ◽  
T.M.C. Lotufo ◽  
L.P. Kremer
Keyword(s):  
Marine Biology ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Future Research ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
Marine Research ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
The Past ◽  
Eastern Brazil ◽  
And Shifts

The city of São Sebastião (SS), in south-eastern Brazil, is one of the hotspots for marine research since the establishment of the Centre of Marine Biology of the University of São Paulo in the 1960s. The SS region experienced intense transformation during the past 50 years, including increasing urbanization and construction of maritime facilities. Ascidian surveys during the past 50 years have found 62 species, eight of which were described as new and 12 are introduced. Didemnidae and Styelidae are the most speciose families in São Sebastião Channel, with 20 and 15 species respectively. Phallusia nigra, Didemnum psammatodes, Trididemnum orbiculatum, Botrylloides nigrum and Symplegma rubra are the most common ascidians. Most of the species are of tropical origin and São Paulo is their southern geographical limit. Comparisons of reports of the ascidians from different time periods allowed detection of species introductions and shifts in assemblage structure in terms of both species composition and abundance. Additionally, we discuss the main taxonomic issues regarding ascidians from south-eastern Brazil and identify profitable areas for future research. We believe that the temporal data compiled here will serve as a baseline for monitoring and management of ascidians in SS. Additionally, this study provides one of the most detailed datasets of ascidian diversity from the south-western Atlantic Ocean.

Occurrence of the non-indigenous Omobranchus punctatus (Blenniidae) on the São Paulo coast, South-Eastern Brazil

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.F. Contente ◽  
M.R. Brenha-Nunes ◽  
C.C. Siliprandi ◽  
R.A. Lamas ◽  
V.R.M. Conversani
Keyword(s):  
Tidal Flat ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Tide Pool ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Eastern Brazil ◽  
First Time ◽  
Sand Bottom

We report, for the first time, the occurrence of the muzzled blenny,Omobranchus punctatus, on the coast of São Paulo, South-Eastern Brazil, partially filling a record gap within the species’ expected distribution in Brazil. One individual was found on 16 June 2014 in a sand-bottom tide pool of a tidal flat ecosystem, adjacent to the port of São Sebastião.

A new species of Branchiomaldane (Polychaeta: Arenicolidae) from the State of São Paulo, south-eastern Brazil

2001 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Miguel de Matos Nogueira ◽  
Alexandra Elaine Rizzo
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Stony Coral ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Eastern Brazil ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Branchiomaldane was identified in a collection of polychaetes living in colonies of a stony coral. Branchiomaldane maryae sp. nov. differs from all other species of the genus by the presence of lensed eyes and 1–3 branchial filaments per parapodium. Comparisons between B. maryae sp. nov. and the other species of the genus are provided, together with some phylogenetic considerations on the position of the genus.

scholarly journals Diet of Eared Doves (Zenaida auriculata, Aves, Columbidae) in a sugar-cane colony in South-eastern Brazil

2001 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. RANVAUD ◽  
K. C. de FREITAS ◽  
E. H. BUCHER ◽  
H. S. DIAS ◽  
V. C. AVANZO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Cane ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Commelina Benghalensis ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Eastern Brazil

Farmers in the Paranapanema Valley (São Paulo, Brazil) have reported problems with flocks of Eared Doves (Zenaida auriculata) eating sprouting soybeans. In this region these birds breed colonially in sugar-cane, and eat four crop seeds, using 70% of the dry weight, in the following order of importance: maize, wheat, rice, and soybeans. Three weeds (Euphorbia heterophylla, Brachiaria plantaginea, and Commelina benghalensis) were important. This information suggests that the doves adapted particularly well to the landscape created by the agricultural practices in the region, exploiting many available foods.

scholarly journals Ecology and conservation of the Red-tailed Amazon Amazona brasiliensis in south-eastern Brazil

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 405-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Martuscelli
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Habitat Heterogeneity ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Flooded Forest ◽  
Eastern Brazil ◽  
São Paulo State

SummaryThe Red-tailed Amazon Amazona brasiliensis was found to be restricted to a complex mosaic of forests growing on the narrow coastal plain of eastern Brazil. The species depends on habitat heterogeneity for both food and breeding. In Sào Paulo state the 1,550 individuals are divided into 16 populations. The global total of the species may be around 3,600 birds. They feed mainly on fruits, flowers and nectar, also occasionally insects. Most nests are found in permanently flooded forest, apparently because of greater cavity availability. Poaching has had a great impact and is the most immediate threat to the species.O Papagaio de Cara-Roxa Amazona brasiliensis é restrito a um complexo mosaico de florestas na estreita planicie costeirano leste do Brasil. Os papagaios dependem da heterogeneidade do ambiente tanto para sua alimentaçāo como reproducao. No estado de São Paulo existem 1,550 papagaios, divididos em 16 grupos. A populaçāo total da espécie pode ser de 3,600 individuos. Os papagaios se alimentam principalmente de frutos, flores e néctar, com alguns casos de insetivoria. A maioria dos ninhos foi encontrada em florestas permanentemente inundadas (caxetais), aparentemente devido a maior disponibilidade de cavidades. A captura para o comércio ilegal tern tido um grande impacto sobre a espécie e é a maior ameaça à sua sobrevivéncia.

Articulatia, a new genus of Terebellinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) living in Brazilian corals

2003 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
João M. de M. Nogueira ◽  
Pat A. Hutchings ◽  
A. Cecília Z. Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The State ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The Third ◽  
Stony Coral ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Eastern Brazil

A new genus of terebellid polychaetes is described, from material collected from living colonies of a stony coral (Mussismilia hispida) in the State of São Paulo, south-eastern Brazil. Articulatia is characterized by possessing notopodia from segment 5, neuropodia from segment 5 or 6 with double rows of uncini from segment 7 until near pygidium. Up to segment ten, notopodia with bilimbate capillaries; from segment 11 onwards two types of notochaetae are present, articulated chaetae, due to a deep cut at the sulcus of the third tooth, as well as capillary chaetae, both types with serrated blades. The presence of deep-cut chaetae is unique among all previously described terebellomorph polychaetes. This new genus is compared with other terebelline genera, and the phylogenetic analysis previously performed for the group is rerun, in order to determine the position of Articulatia within the subfamily. The type species of the new genus, A. aberrans, is also new to science and herein described.

“Ballet” is a Dirty Word

2021 ◽  
pp. 373-388
Author(s):  
Henrique Rochelle
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Modern Dance ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
Professional Dance ◽  
Dance Companies ◽  
The City

Professional dancing in São Paulo, Brazil, developed from the 1950s on, with a constant and strong influence from modern dance. As modernism looked disapprovingly at ballet, seeing it as something from the past, prejudice grew in the city toward the form. Directors and choreographers of dance companies currently speak about ballet and contemporary ballet as something that is done, but always by others, never themselves. Even the word “ballet” is avoided, since it seems to diminish the works being discussed, as it became something strictly associated with dance training, and not professional dance. This chapter investigates the roots of ballet in São Paulo, discussing both its origins and the origins of its rejection, while pointing to the recent indications of its newfound public interest.

scholarly journals Vascular epiphytes in the Grumari restinga, RJ: floristic and similarities between restingas in Eastern Brazil

Rodriguésia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dayvid Rodrigues Couto ◽  
Fernando Perez Uribbe ◽  
Suara S.A. Jacques ◽  
Talitha Mayumi Fracisco ◽  
Rosana C. Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Espírito Santo ◽  
Vascular Epiphytes ◽  
Eastern Brazil ◽  
Espirito Santo

Resumo A comunidade de epífitas vasculares ocorrente na restinga de Grumari, estado do Rio de Janeiro, foi avaliada através de coletas realizadas no ano de 2014 e complementadas com materiais de herbários e publicações. 37 espécies de epífitas vasculares foram registradas, distribuídas em 21 gêneros e seis famílias. As famílias mais ricas são Orchidaceae e Bromeliaceae, que foram as mais representativas (67,6% de todas as espécies registradas). A riqueza na restinga de Grumari é maior do que os outros inventários realizados na planície costeira do Sudeste do Brasil, no entanto, inferior as restingas de São Paulo, Paraná e da planície costeira do Rio Grande do Sul. A categoria ecológica mais representativa foi a holoepífita característica (62%) seguida por holoepífitas facultativas e acidentais com 18% cada. A restinga de Grumari possui mais espécies em comum com as restingas do Espírito Santo e Rio de Janeiro do que com São Paulo e região Sul do Brasil, possivelmente em função da distância geográfica. Nosso estudo traz a primeira contribuição ao conhecimento da flora epifítica da restinga de Grumari e evidencia uma flora singular com 40% das espécies exclusivas dessa localidade, o que justifica sua importância como Unidade de Conservação.

scholarly journals Record of Electrona paucirastra Bolin, 1962 (Pisces: Myctophiformes: Myctophidae) in Brazilian waters, with comments on the occurrence of Electrona risso (Cocco, 1829) in the western South Atlantic

Check List ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1949
Author(s):  
Rodrigo A. Caires
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
First Time

Electrona risso, a warm circumtropical lanternfish species distributed in all oceans, has been reported in the western Atlantic from Suriname to Southern Brazil. Re-examination of specimens attributed to this species which presumably supported the southernmost record in the western South Atlantic and are available at Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, revealed that they were misidentified and are really Electrona paucirastra. As a result, E. paucirastra is reported for the first time in southern Brazil and the distribution of E. risso in the western Atlantic is discussed.

scholarly journals Patents valuation in core innovation: case study of a Brazilian public university

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri Basile Tukoff-Guimarães ◽  
Claudia Terezinha Kniess ◽  
Renato Penha ◽  
Mauro Silva Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Public University ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The State ◽  
Future Research ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Valuation Methods

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess how technology transfer offices (TTOs) of a public university of the state of São Paulo use patent valuation methods in the process of using developed technology value and transferring technology to industry. Design/methodology/approach This study is an exploratory qualitative investigation based on a case study conducted in a public university in the state of São Paulo. The university has a TTO and an internal structure for technology transfer. In-depth interviews were conducted with the TTO manager about patent valuation and the answers given were analysed. Findings The results on how TTOs use patent valuation methods in the process of assigning value to technology indicate which factors facilitate and which factors hinder the valuation of patents in technologies developed at universities. Research limitations/implications The possible lack of data disclosure due to confidentiality regarding royalties and trading fees makes further comparisons between Brazilian public universities difficult. Therefore, this study recommends that further studies on patent valuation and technology transfer process at private universities, research institutes and public and private companies should be performed. Practical implications In the practice, this study contributes to companies and TTOs by increasing their synergies in licensing negotiations, as well as by reducing the gap of information, between the business parties for assignment and transfer of technologies. With regard to theoretical contribution, this study can cite advances in the methods to measure the financial benefits arising from the valuation of technologies embedded in the patents. Originality/value Owing to the lack of research on the methods of valuation used by TTOs of Brazilian universities, the present study can be useful in serving as a theoretical source for future research and in supporting future TTO negotiations in the process of transferring technologies to productive industry.

The Import of a Narrative : The Role of Aesthetics and Discursive Elements in Fabricating Change in the Centre of São Paulo

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Kalichman ◽  
Beatriz Rufino
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
York City ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The Past

This chapter examines the use of aesthetic and discursive elements in the production of a narrative about República, a district in the central area of São Paulo (Brazil) that has been transformed through a real estate boom in the past ten years. We focus on newly built studio apartments, and on the efforts to differentiate them from the quitinetes, apartments with similar features built in the 1950s and 1960s that have been heavily stigmatized. We situate our analysis of this purposeful urban transformation within a context intertwined with urban marketing, publicity, and image making. Our research shows the strong presence of an industrial aesthetic in the area, which we understand as being a deliberate echo of the gentrification process that took place in SoHo in New York City in the 1970s.

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