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Urban areas have experienced rapid growth, these spaces are important, offering climate regulation and improving air quality, for this reason the study aims to identify the ecological composition of the urban trees in the green areas of Quinindé, Esmeraldas, Ecuador. The study was carried out through an inventory of dendrometric variables taking the (DAP) at 1.30 m from the urban trees in representative places such as: parks, avenues, streets, flowerbeds and green spaces, describing the composition at a floristic and structural level. In the results, 24 forest species were identified, of which 12 are fruit trees, six arboreal and six palms, botanically distributed in 14 families. Of which 6 native species and 18 introduced, Arecaceae being the most representative family. A greater presence in class IV was diagnosed in the horizontal structure and in the vertical structure in class II. In the Ecological Importance Value Index, Adonidia merrillii becc was the most representative with 37.11% from the ecological point of view, while the Shannon - Wiener index has a diversity of 3.14, the Simpson index with 0 .82 representing high diversity, the Margalef index obtained a value of 3.42 indicating high richness and the Pielou index is 0.68 determining moderate equity. Finally, it is concluded that the urban tree identification of the Quinindé canton has a good biodiversity of forest families and species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor (PNSD), renowned for its remarkable biodiversity, is a conservation unit of the Amazon biome situated at the westernmost limit of the Brazilian territory. However, the PNSD fauna is still poorly documented for most taxa. This study aimed to list the ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the PNSD, comparing its diversity found with studies conducted in other hotspots of biodiversity of the world. Field collections were conducted in the northern region of PNSD for four days in 2016, using three collection methods: epigaeic pitfall traps, Winkler extractors, and hand collections. Even with the short sampling period, an impressive number of 261 species of ants were recorded, representing one of the highest richness documented for ants with the least sampling effort applied in a single locality worldwide. Of these species, 66 were newly recorded in the state of Acre, with six representing first-time records for Brazil. These findings highlight the critical importance of the PNSD as a strategic area for ant conservation, both in Brazil and globally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Happiness is a socially constructed psychological state, where being happy is feeling positive emotions in the here and now, but with long-term meaning and purpose. When considering the centrality of work in people's lives, it is paramount to understand the valued aspects of building happiness at work. This study aimed to validate the short version of the Happiness at Work Inventory (HWI) using a sample of 814 Brazilian participants. For the short version, the sample was randomly divided into two subsamples. The first was used for exploratory factor analysis to test the original factor structure, resulting in a unidimensional model with 25 items. The second subsample was used for the confirmatory factor analysis. The results indicate that the short version of the HWI has good psychometric properties and is viable for future research with workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban ecosystems are areas subject to constant changes due to human activities, characterized by spatial heterogeneity and temporal dynamics, which translates into disorder and reduction of biodiversity. Diversity is lower in urban and agroecosystems than in conserved ecosystems, transition zones become highly diverse due to the complexity of vegetation and opportunities as a new environment. Ants can adapt to urban environments, they tend to be generalist, dominant and with aggressive behavior, these environments have a greater number of introduced species. These organisms have been little studied in urban environments despite their importance and interactions they have with other organisms. In order to know the species of ants in parks of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Zone, 13 parks of Agencia Metropolitana de Bosques Urbanos were selected, one visit was made to each park between February and July 2021. Six points were marked in each park, four baits were placed in each point (two with tuna and two with walnut) and two hours of manual collection were carried out in the morning, from 9:00 to 11:00 am. The material was taken to the laboratory where it was separated and determined and deposited in the Colección Entomológica of Cento de Estudios en Zoología of the Universidad de Guadalajara. An annotated checklist of the ant species found was prepared. 17,677 individuals belonging to 35 species were collected; of which 26 are native species and nine are introduced species. Eight species of ant were found in all the parks, three species were exclusive to only one park. The most diverse park had 26 species, and the least diversity were two parks, with 17 species each one. Paratrechina longicornis was the most abundant species, while Hypoponera opaciceps, Solenopsis subterranea and Strumigenys louisianae were the least abundant species with only one individual each one. Myrmelachista skwarrae is collected for the first time in urban environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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From 2010 to 2019, we studied the composition of species and habitat use of amphibians in Santa Maria Natural Reserve (RNRSM) and its surroundings. We made active search combining auditive search and visual encounters surveys. Additionally, for 12 months, we installed 14 pitfall traps in seven representative sectors of three environments. We recorded 39 species belonging to 18 genera and seven families; 36 of them were encountered inside the reserve and three in the surroundings. All species were recorded by active search, but only 20 species were recorded in pitfall traps. Grasslands and wetlands were the richest and most similar habitats in the species composition. The semipermanent water bodies were the most used by amphibians, and semipermanent and temporary water bodies have shown similar species composition. We detected six species prioritized for their conservation using an index based on their threats category, distribution and degree of endemism, body size, reproductive potential, ecological rarity, abundance, human threats, and taxonomic singularity. The RNRSM protect 65% of amphibian’s fauna known in Corrientes province and 22.3% of Argentina, conserving habitats strongly affected by Yacyretá Dam, with high biodiversity value. This inventory is a baseline for monitoring the reserve's amphibians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite their rich heritage diversity, UNESCO Global Geoparks have not been the primary focus of tourist functionality studies. Existing studies have predominantly centered on World Heritage Cities and built heritage, with natural resources, particularly geological ones, receiving comparatively less attention due to their recent recognition. This article conducts a tourist functionality study on two distinct geoparks: one in Latin America (Mixteca Alta) and another in Europe (Villuercas-Ibores-Jara). The aim is to highlight geopark management within different global contexts. The methodology utilized involves a comprehensive inventory of the present heritage, identifying the tourist use of each heritage resource along with other indicators relevant to its functionality. The inventory is sourced from various information sources, including data from both geoparks and fieldwork. The results provide an analysis of tourist functionality in two successful geopark instances, each with different management approaches in alignment with their respective tourist realities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study describes and illustrates the biodiversity of macroinvertebrates associated to Sargassum and Dictyota seaweed habitats in the Alcatrazes archipelago, the largest Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the state of São Paulo, southeast Brazil. Assemblages were sampled during the summers of 2018, 2019 and 2020 and winter of 2018 at two sites on the main island. Macroalgae containing the associated fauna were collected at approximately 10 meters deep, with six samples at each site and in each sampling campaign. Sargassum fronds prevailed during summer collections, whilst were absent in the winter campaigns, when Dictyota was the most frequent seaweed. Among invertebrates, 32 species were exclusively found on summer months, associated to Sargassum beds, while 12 species were only registered on winter collection, in association with Dictyota. In total, 91 species were identified, belonging to 60 families, 19 orders, 7 classes and 3 phyla, including Arthropoda (Malacostraca and Pycnogonida), Mollusca (Gastropoda, Bivalvia and Polyplacophora), and Echinodermata (Ophiuroidea and Echinoidea). Among the 91 species found, 73 species are new records for the Alcatrazes archipelago marine area, thus revealing the expressive invertebrate biodiversity living in association with macroalgae beds in that area, which has still been little explored. No significant difference in species diversity was found between the two sites of Alcatrazes. In addition, few specimens of two invasive species were found: Perna perna (Mollusca: Bivalvia) and Ophiothela mirabilis (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), which underscores the importance of monitoring different habitats within MPAs to check for possible changes in the fauna over the years. As far as our knowledge, this is the first illustrated inventory of the seaweed-associated macroinvertebrate fauna within the Alcatrazes Archipelago, one of the largest MPAs in the Brazilian coast; besides unravelling its notorious biodiversity, this can act as a reference for future monitoring of local coastal diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Understanding species diversity and distribution cannot be overstated in the development of effective management and biological conservation strategies. Our goal was to address the knowledge gap regarding dragonfly diversity in the northeastern Atlantic Forest, specifically in the Serra of Itabaiana National Park in the state of Sergipe, Brazil. During our study, we recorded 40 species and 969 Odonata individuals across six families and 25 genera. This study contributes 27 new occurrence records of Odonata species in Sergipe, Brazil, highlighting the significance of preserving and protecting the habitats of this region. Our findings provide valuable information on the distribution of dragonfly species in the state of Sergipe and the Northeast region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this study, we provide a checklist of the species of Odonata (Insecta) from the state of Santa Catarina (southern Brazil), along with their location records in the municipalities across the state (whenever possible). We compiled 147 species from 60 genera and nine families, making Santa Catarina the second state with the most Odonata species recorded in southern Brazil. The families with the highest number of species were Libellulidae (54 species from 18 genera), followed by Coenagrionidae (36 species from 17 genera), Gomphidae (20 species from ten genera) and Aeshnidae (15 species from eight genera). Several regions of Santa Catarina are unexplored (mostly the westernmost and central regions of the state), whereas the knowledge in the southern coast and the subtropical highland grasslands remains restricted to sparse occurrence records. Moreover, the distribution records in the state show an enormous historical track associated with the establishment of late entomologists in the region. Our study highlights the role of Atlantic Forest biome in maintaining high levels of diversity of Odonata species richness in Brazil and also shows that many areas in subtropical forests in Brazil are not adequately sampled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The inventory of architectural heritage must deal with problems of managing and storing large amounts of information in heterogeneous formats, in addition to the necessity to organize and manage the information generated by the collaborative work between the different technicians involved in the documentation process. The solution involves the creation of a standardized base to plan and execute the digital recording of graphic documentation. To this end, an Information System of the Mudejar Architectural Heritage of Aragon is presented, with the purpose of integrating under a common support, all the documentation and graphic information available on the heritage element, with the purpose of preparing an inventory for its conservation and dissemination. The implementation of a tool that allows the dissemination and exploitation of information by different users through a web portal that integrates a cartographic viewer (WebGIS) and access to a point cloud manager based on WebGL is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A floristic inventory was prepared for the Dois Irmãos State Park (PEDI, Recife, PE, Brazil), one of the most significant Atlantic Forest remnants (1,158 hectares) and an essential urban protected area in the Brazilian Northeast. The inventory included monthly field collections (2014-2015, 2017-2018) in a PPBio Program RAPELD module, searches in the INCT - Virtual Herbarium and literature, followed by a careful taxonomic review, including avascular and vascular plants. Species were assigned to a category for their habitats, habits, life forms, origin, extinction risk status, and substrate type. Overall, 992 species were registered (515 genera, 140 families). The Angiosperms comprised 887 species (110 families), of which 65% were woody species: 370 (41.7%) trees, six palm trees (0.7%), 146 (16.5%) shrubs, 56 (6.3%) climbers; and 309 (35%) were herbaceous plants. The most important angiosperm families were Fabaceae (90 species), Poaceae (54 spp.), Rubiaceae (47 spp.), Myrtaceae (35 spp.), Cyperaceae and Melastomataceae (32 spp. each). Forty-four species of ferns and lycophytes (15 families) were recorded; Pteridaceae (12 spp.), Thelypteridaceae (6 spp.), and Polypodiaceae (5 spp.) were the richest. We registered 61 species (14 families) of avascular plants, of which Lejeuneaceae (23 spp.), Calymperaceae (9 spp.) and Sematophyllaceae (7 spp.) exhibited the highest richness. We found 13 threatened species, such as Canistrum aurantiacum (Bromeliaceae) and Ocotea odorifera (Lauraceae). Our results confirm that the PEDI holds a high floristic richness in comparison to other checklists from this Atlantic Forest region. This highlights the importance of the Dois Irmãos State Park as a unique and valuable natural resource, and the need for more conservation efforts to protect this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the panorama of the institutions of the Italian Archival Administration, the Umbria Soprintendenza archivistica e bibliografica can certainly boast a primacy: its conspicuous editorial production that started in the late 1990s composed by the series “Segni di civiltà” and “Scaffali senza polvere”, in addition to the many exhibition catalogs. To date, in SIUSA and the SAN Portal – Online Research Tools, there are over 500 inventories of Umbrian archives, more than a quarter of the national production. What path has been taken from printed volumes to downloadable pdfs and browsing archival description software? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to illustrate how, between the 19th and 20th centuries, the practice of archival inventory was established even in Italian municipalities, in relation to the calls of the Ministry of the Interior, the indications of a developing discipline and professional manuals exemplifying practices and models. Through the use of diagrams, we trace the development of the inventory in the local context, which initially has a patrimonial connotation, but gradually takes on a cultural function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The ecosystem services of urban trees in Laguna de San Baltazar, Puebla, Mexico, are determined through the use of i-Tree software. For that, the species and the allometric measurements of all the trees with a diameter of 5 cm or more were registered. The equivalent economic amount of the main pollutants removed calculated by the program, was determined using the registered data and the native parameters associated to its data base. Environmental services rise to $592,200.00 pesos per year, 73% of which are derived from the removal of pollutants. A baseline is established for this site and the knowledge regarding to the use of this tool is expanded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aquatic beetles of the Elmidae family are widely used in the hydrobiological monitoring of lotic ecosystems. In this work, samples belonging to 22 municipalities and 38 bodies of water in the department of Antioquia were reviewed, which were collected using a triangular or surber network. The species Cylloepus francescae, C. whitemanae, Macrelmis clypeata, M. elicioi and Disersus longipennis are recorded for the first time in Colombia. This information contributes to the updating of the number of species and geographical distribution of the family Elmidae in Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Biodiversity baselines are essential subsidies to evaluate how environmental changes and human impacts affect the special and temporal patterns of communities. This information is paramount to promote proper conservation and management for historically impacted environments such as Guanabara Bay, in southeastern Brazil. Here, we propose an ichthyofaunal baseline for this bay using gathered past data from 1889 to 2020, including literature records, scientific collections, biological sampling, and fisheries landing monitoring. A total of 220 species (203 teleosts and 17 elasmobranchs), distributed in 149 genera (136 teleosts and 13 elasmobranchs) and 72 families (61 teleosts and 11 elasmobranchs) were recorded, including the first record of a tiger-shark, Galeocerdo cuvier, in Guanabara Bay. Although the employed sampling effort was sufficient to represent the ichthyofauna in the middle and upper estuary, the Chao2 estimator indicates an even greater richness regarding the bay as a whole. Evidence of reduced abundance and probable local extinction over the decades was found, supporting the importance of implementing management and conservation strategies in the area. The ichthyofaunal distribution analyses revealed that areas close to conservation units are richer compared to their surroundings, indicating that this is an effective strategy to mitigate human impacts in the bay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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When one thinks about the constitution of daycare centers and preschools in Brasília, from the moment the capital was inaugurated, on April 21, 1960, there is still a gap in history that allows us to grasp a historical interpretation of the education and care given to these children, at least in the first two decades. To understand this constitution and the practices/conceptions present there, this study locates, through an inventory of sources, the documents that make it possible to go through the traces of the first daycare centers and kindergartens in Brasília, in the 1960s and 1970s. Having defined the intention, the files consulted were: the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP); the Public Archive of the Federal District; the Public Archive of the Senate, the Digital Newspaper Library of the National Library, and the Museum of Education of the Federal District. As first interpretations, it was possible to show that, in Brasília, the creation of the daycare center and preschool follows what happened in other parts of the Brazilian territory, with distinction where the first was a guard space and the second of pedagogical practices with children, made by trained teachers. However, there is already a demand for daycare that ends up echoing in the pages of the Correio Braziliense newspaper, albeit as a right of the mother and not of the children. In the kindergartens, the organization of routines is located, where the languages appeared, linked to playing, although not centered on the children, but on the proposers of the activities: the teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research aimed at developing a short version of the Five Continua Personality Inventory (FCPI; de la Iglesia y Castro Solano, 2021). The FCPI is a 120 item measure that operationalizes the Dual Personality Model (DPM). The DPM proposes that personality traits may and must be assessed in their pathological and positive aspects conjointly. DPM is based on the notion of traits conceived as dimensional and in the notion of continuum of traits. These two pillars allow to study the degree of presence of each trait (dimensionally) and their pathological and positive aspects (continuum). Pathological traits included in the model are negative affect, detachment, antagonism, disinhibition and psychoticism. Positive traits are serenity, humanity, integrity, moderation and sprightliness. An assessment of this kind would provide a notion of the total personality adjustment that considers both aspects of the phenomenon as well as an integrated view of personality functioning as a whole, in contrast to a dissociated one. The strengths of the DPM are: (1) the integrated view of personality that includes healthy and pathological aspects simultaneously; (2) the use of dimensional measures in contrast of categories; and (3) its link to current diagnostic nosologies (DSM-5). Since the FCPI could be considered too long for many instances of psychological assessment, the development of a shorter version could provide a more versatile measure. Shorter versions of this type of instruments are recommended for long research surveys and longitudinal studies since they would prevent the undesirable effect than long scales have on attrition rates or attention levels. To develop a shorter version three main aspects were considered: (1) the characteristics of the items that can be assessed by studying their association with each other (internal item qualities); (2) the correlation of the new instrument with other variables or indicators (external item qualities); and (3) the properties that exceed statistical analyses, such as clarity, non-redundancy, invasiveness and “face” validity (judgmental item qualities). Sample was composed of 2 183 adults of the general population with a mean age of 39.04 (SD = 14.18; 51.95 % female, 47.64 % male, 0.41 % other). A shorter version was obtained which had 55 items that met the internal, external and judgement quality criteria expected. Selected elements were clear, non-redundant and had a high correlation with the total score of the scale they belonged to (between .89 and .96). In addition, evidence of the ten-trait personality model (five pathological traits and five positive traits) was obtained by means of a confirmatory factor analysis since the structure showed an excellent fit. Internal consistency was assessed by Cronbach, ordinal and Omega alphas and their values were as expected and also indicated a good psychometric functioning of the scale. Associations between the long version and the short version of each scale were all positive and strong (between .89 and .96). Additionally, correlation analyses with external criteria resulted as expected: pathological traits were positively associated with psychological symptoms (between .26 and .64) and negatively associated with well-being (between -.18 and -.43); positive traits and adjustment indexes were negatively related to psychological symptoms (between -.09 and -.53) and positively related to well-being (between .11 and .44). An interesting result is that, when compared with the ten individual traits, indexes had stronger associations with psychological symptoms and well-being. It is possible that these combined measures have greater explanatory power since they provide an integrated view of personality in contrast to a disaggregated assessment. It is concluded that the short version of the FCPI meets the three criteria sought and it is an appropriate psychometric measure and it is suggested to be used for research purposes or for screening assessments in the applied fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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