Entomological Conferences in Porto Rico

Environmental education in the Upper Paraná River floodplain, municipality of Porto Rico (Paraná State), Brazil.

Since 2003, researchers, faculty, graduate and undergraduate students from the State University of Maringá have been working alongside teachers from the state and local schools in the municipality of Porto Rico (Paraná State), located on the banks of the Paraná River. Their objective is to outline actions and strategies with the purpose of building methodological paths to insert environmental e...

Entomological Specimens

Arboreous Vegetation of an Alluvial Riparian Forest and Their Soil Relations: Porto Rico Island, Paraná River, Brazil

The dynamics of alluvial deposits in floodplains forms islands and sandbanks. Deposits frequently accumulate at the river margins and on islands with consequent side growths. One of these sandbanks which started to form in 1952 annexed an area of 12.4ha to the Porto Rico island (5315’W and 2245’S). At present a forest fragment of approximately 2.0 ha exists in this place. The structural analysi...

Entomological and Epidemiological Characteristics

The use of information on malaria vector behaviour in vector control is discussed in relation to the area of Southeast Asia comprising Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The major vectors in the region are Anopheles dirus, An. minimus, An. maculatus and An. sundaicus, of which An. dirus is the most important. Options for vector control and the biological features of mosquitoes, whic...

Porto Alegre

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