Tropical forests provide essential environmental services to human well-being. In the world, Brazil has largest continuous area of these forests. However, in state Maranhão, eastern Amazon, only 24% original forest cover remains. We integrated and analyzed active fires, burned area, land use cover, rainfall, surface temperature datasets understand fragmentation fire dynamics from a remote sensi...

INTRODUCTION This study was developed to evaluate the situation of leprosy in the general population of the municipality of Buriticupu, State of Maranhão, Brazil. METHODS We used the method of active search to identify new cases from 2008 to 2010. Bacilloscopy of intradermal scrapings was performed in all patients with skin lesions compatible with leprosy, and histopathological examination in...

Mangrove communities are tropical systems which have fewer species than tropical forests, especially in Latin America and display a single architecture, usually lacking the various strata commonly found in other forest ecosystems. The identification of mangrove communities by orbital data is not a difficult task but the most interesting challenge is to identify themselves by the dominant specie...

The bat genus Sturnira is widely distributed in the Neotropical region, from northwestern Mexico to northern Argentina, and four species occur Brazil: lilium, giannae, magna, tildae. present study first record tildae state of Maranhão, Brazil, based on morphological molecular diagnoses. specimen was identified its cranial morphometric traits. diagnostic traits include discreetly bilobed inner u...