Fotografía Experimental consiste en un taller creado para los alumnos del último año de la Orientación Ciencias Naturales del Liceo Víctor Mercante de la U.N.L.P. El aspecto que lo caracteriza es el trabajo interdisciplinario que se realiza durante su desarrollo…

El objetivo general de la presente tesis fue determinar el grado en el cual los parásitos de tres especies de peces de ambientes marinos de salinidad variable podían utilizarse como indicadores de alteraciones del medio ambiente e indicadores de biodiversidad.…

Corallus annulatus (Northern Annulated Tree-boa) is a little-studied tropical Boid occurring disjunctively throughout Central America and tropical South America in mostly lowland tropical moist and wet forests (Holdridge, 1967; Stafford & Henderson, 1996; Smith & Acevedo, 1997; Henderson et al.,…

Inventários faunísticos são fundamentais para o conhecimento da biodiversida- de e, conseqüentemente, para o planejamento e tomada de decisões sobre estratégias de conser- vação. Para conhecer a diversidade e composição dos répteis Squamata, assim como a distribuição das espécies por…

Background: Fieldwork has thoroughly established that most eggs are intensely predated. Among the few exceptions are the aerial egg clutches from the aquatic snail Pomacea canaliculata which have virtually no predators. Its defenses are advertised by the pigmented ovorubin perivitellin…

Me propongo analizar y discutir algunos resultados de una investigación etnográfica desarrollada en comunidades Mbya Guaraníes (Misiones, Argentina) acerca de las representaciones y prácticas relacionadas con la crianza y el desarrollo infantil.
En este trabajo caracterizo las categorías, representaciones y…

The role of communities associated to a substrate as fundamental components of an aquatic system has been recognized by many authors. Although periphyton has been considered of great importance in shallow lakes, its inclusion in different ecological models has been…

Tardigrades constitute one of three clades of Xenarthra. Whereas modern tree sloths are common in the Amazonian Basin, their giant ground sloth "kin" were abundant throughout the Americas. During the Miocene, sloths were conspicuous faunal elements in Patagonia, generally considered…

Recent contributions to the knowledge of Gondwanan cynodonts highlight the presence in Africa of taxa previously recognized in South America and vice-versa. This is the case for the Middle Triassic Namibian fauna from the upper Omingonde Formation, where the first…

Talampaya and Tarjados Formations correspond to the initial stage of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin filling, and record the oldest post-Permian events in the region. The sequence consists of red beds deposited essentially by ephemeral alluvial and fluvial systems, and overlay…