Medicinal plants represent a valuable source of bioactive compounds with therapeutic potential, widely used by traditional populations and increasingly investigated by modern science. Among these species, Pereskia ...

The concept of crop production efficiency when applied to the analysis of the plant yield in an ecosystem is well understood and represents the ratio between the chemical energy stored in the biomass and the incident ...

Surface albedo is an important parameter that affects the terrestrial radiation balance and has been considered in studies of global climate. The goal of this work is to determine spatially the albedo of an Amazon ...

Leaf area index (LAI) is an important parameter of the vegetation canopy, and is used, for instance, to estimate evapotranspiration and productivity. The main objective of this work was analyzed the relationship between ...

The management of the country roads contributed for the erosive process, mainly in the areas that the soil was moved by implements from conventional tillage. This work had as objective to quantify the reforestation for ...

Vegetation Indices are a product of remote sensing and have been used for vegetation and crop monitoring. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is one of the most used and reflects the vegetation biomass ...

A problem to map agricultural crop, mainly of cultures with irregular spacing, it is to define and to calculate the cells area of the crop mesh. A method was proposed to define and to calculate the sample area of influence ...

The main objective of this study was to analyze the differences in the consumption of macronutrients and micronutrients among individuals living in urban and rural areas of two municipalities in the semiarid region of the ...

The MATOPIBA region, currently known as the new agricultural frontier, has received major investments in the agribusiness sector in recent decades. In order to further expand agricultural production, much of its soil ...

We problematize in this work, understanding the impact of the public policy Family Health Strategy (ESF) on infant mortality rates up to one year of age. We focus on the evaluation aspect, analyzing the problem of infant ...