O Senado da Câmara de Vila Rica e sua relação política com a Coroa Portuguesa na Segunda Metade do Século XVIII The Vila Rica Town Council Senate and its political relationship with the Portuguese Crown in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century

O presente artigo visa analisar o governo político e administrativo dos oficiais do Senado da Câmara de Vila Rica (1760-1808), procurando analisar a atuação dessa "burocracia local" no caráter mutante da temporalidade evocada. A perspectiva de longa duração procura abarcar um período em que ocorreu uma reestruturação econômica interna na capitania mineira, sendo que o auge minerador passava a ceder lugar às atividades mercantis de subsistência voltadas à economia urbana. Nesse período, portanto, a economia das Minas Gerais deixou de ter a mineração como atividade principal e as atividades mercantis e as agropecuárias passaram a ser seu eixo central. Nesse contexto, buscamos estabelecer as relações travadas entre o Senado da Câmara de Vila Rica e o poder metropolitano, procuramos retratar os canais de comunicação e negociação estabelecidos diretamente entre os camaristas e os representantes do Estado metropolitano, que se encontravam em Lisboa.<br>The current article to analyze is directed to the political and administrative government of the officials of Vila Rica.s city-council, trying to the performance of this "local bureaucracy" in the changing character of temporal context mentioned. The long term perspective seeks to embrace a period, in which occurred an internal economic reestructuration in Minas Gerais captaincy, while the mining acme began to recede to mercantile activities of subsistence directed to urban economy. In this period, thus, the mining activity was no longer the principal activity in Minas Gerais economy, in fact, mercantile as well as agricultural activities become its principal business. In this context, we are looking forward to establishing the existent relations between the Senate of Vila Rica.s and Metropolitan authorities, portray the ways of communication and negotiation directly established between the chamberlain and the Metropolitan State representatives, who were in Lisbon city

NEOTROPICAL ALIEN MAMMALS: a data set of occurrence and abundance of alien mammals in the Neotropics

Biological invasion is one of the main threats to native biodiversity. For a species to become invasive, it must be voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into a nonnative habitat. Mammals were among first taxa to be introduced worldwide for game, meat, and labor, yet the number of species introduced in the Neotropics remains unknown. In this data set, we make available occurrence and abundance data on mammal species that (1) transposed a geographical barrier and (2) were voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into the Neotropics. Our data set is composed of 73,738 historical and current georeferenced records on alien mammal species of which around 96% correspond to occurrence data on 77 species belonging to eight orders and 26 families. Data cover 26 continental countries in the Neotropics, ranging from Mexico and its frontier regions (southern Florida and coastal-central Florida in the southeast United States) to Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and Uruguay, and the 13 countries of Caribbean islands. Our data set also includes neotropical species (e.g., Callithrix sp., Myocastor coypus, Nasua nasua) considered alien in particular areas of Neotropics. The most numerous species in terms of records are from Bos sp. (n = 37,782), Sus scrofa (n = 6,730), and Canis familiaris (n = 10,084); 17 species were represented by only one record (e.g., Syncerus caffer, Cervus timorensis, Cervus unicolor, Canis latrans). Primates have the highest number of species in the data set (n = 20 species), partly because of uncertainties regarding taxonomic identification of the genera Callithrix, which includes the species Callithrix aurita, Callithrix flaviceps, Callithrix geoffroyi, Callithrix jacchus, Callithrix kuhlii, Callithrix penicillata, and their hybrids. This unique data set will be a valuable source of information on invasion risk assessments, biodiversity redistribution and conservation-related research. There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite this data paper when using the data in publications. We also request that researchers and teachers inform us on how they are using the data