Severe Impact and Subsequent Recovery of a Coral Assemblage following the 1997–8 El Niño Event: A 17-Year Study from Bahia, Brazil

The coral reefs of northern Bahia evolved in isolation from other Atlantic systems and under conditions of high environmental stress, particularly high turbidity. We have monitored the scleractinian assemblage of four shallow bank reefs (Praia do Forte, Itacimirim, Guarajuba and Abai) annually for 17 years since 1995, collecting quantitative data on diversity and density of coral colonies. As the sampling period included the 1997-8 El Niño event, the most severe on record, for the first time these results allow a quantitative assessment of the long-term impact of this major environmental stressor on such a coral assemblage. After El Niño, most species showed significantly reduced densities of colonies, this decline occurring for the subsequent two years without evidence of any new settlement until 2001. From 2000 to 2007 the species Porites astreoides went unrecorded. Recovery was slow, and multivariate analysis revealed that assemblages had not returned to the pre-El Niño state until 2011. It therefore took 13 years for full recovery of the coral assemblage to occur, which has consequences for reef systems if such El-Niño events become more frequent in the future

EDUCACIÓN AMBIENTAL Y SOCIEDAD. SABERES LOCALES PARA EL DESARROLLO Y LA SUSTENTABILIDAD

Este texto contribuye al análisis científico de varias áreas del conocimiento como la filosofía social, la patología, la educación para el cuidado del medio ambiente y la sustentabilidad que inciden en diversas unidades de aprendizaje de la Licenciatura en Educación para la Salud y de la Maestría en Sociología de la SaludLas comunidades indígenas de la sierra norte de Oaxaca México, habitan un territorio extenso de biodiversidad. Sin que sea una área protegida y sustentable, la propia naturaleza de la región ofrece a sus visitantes la riqueza de la vegetación caracterizada por sus especies endémicas que componen un paisaje de suma belleza

Model for the characterization of epidemies generated by the vector Aedes aegyypti. Case study: Norte de Santander Department, Colombia

Applied technologies to health systems have been noticed as a required tool to reduce the reappearance rate of certain illnesses, to identify groups of risk or to involve the patient in the care of his own health. Taking in consideration the fact that in the North Santander Department the occurrence of the outbreak of illnesses transmitted by the vector Aedes aegypti shows intense increase since its re-emergency in 2014, with the presence of several manifestations, one of the most likely solutions to prevent the illness, is the epidemiologic surveillance alongside the strategic prevention/ control of the vector. In this context, this project was developed with the purpose of characterize patients by the building of a knowledge database for digital health that allows to create an architecture to integrate, analyze and structure the historical data according to the detected cases, in order to collect the information from the direct field, store it and process it, to present reports and knowledge models with the right indicators that allow to look out often the symptoms and to control the increase of such epidemies