Flood hazard mapping by integrating airborne laser scanning data, high resolution images and large scale maps: a case study

The assessment and management of flood risks framework impose the mapping of flood hazard in potential flood risks areas. Floods in urban environments may happen due to rainfall extreme events and be exacerbated by saturated or impervious surfaces. Flood risk is greater in urban areas. (...

Monitorização da qualidade da energia elétrica

A monitorização da Qualidade da Energia Elétrica é uma mais-valia para os responsáveis pelas instalações elétricas, permitindo a otimização dos perfis de consumo e a identificação e prevenção de problemas.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT

Enrichment of bacterial strains for the biodegradation of endocrine disrupting compounds from sediments of the Pearl River delta (PRD)

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Biodegradation of endocrine disrupting compounds by bacterial communities from contaminated environments in Macau

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Overlooked gall-inducing moths revisited, with the description of Andescecidium parrai gen. et sp. n. and Oliera saizi sp. n. from Chile (Lepidoptera, Cecidosidae)

There are still many gall systems associated with larvae of Lepidoptera in which the true gall-inducers have not been identified to species. Reports on misidentification of gall inducers have been recurrent for these galls, particularly in complex gall-systems that may include inquilines, kleptoparasites, and cecidophages, among other feeding guilds such as predators and parasitoid wasps. Here we describe and illustrate the adults, larvae, pupae and galls, based on light and scanning microscopy, of Andescecidium parrai gen. et sp. n. and Oliera saizi sp. n., two sympatric cecidosid moths that are associated with Schinus polygamus (Cav.) Cabrera (Anacardiaceae) in central Chile. Adults, immatures, and galls of the former did not conform to any known cecidosid genus. Galls of A. parrai are external, spherical, and conspicuous, being known for more than one century. However, their induction has been mistakenly associated with either unidentified Coleoptera (original description) or Oliera argentinana Br糨es (recently), a distinct cecidosid species with distribution restricted to the eastern Andes. Galls of O. saizi had been undetected, as they are inconspicuous. They occur under the bark within swollen stems, and may occur on the same plant, adjacent to those of A. parrai. We also propose a time-calibrated phylogeny using sequences from mitochondrial and nuclear loci, including specimens of the new proposed taxa. Thus in addition to clarifying the taxonomy of the Chilean cecidosid species we also tested their monophyly in comparison to congeneric species and putative specimens of all genera of Neotropical and African cecidosids.Fil: Silva, Gabriela T.. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; BrasilFil: Moreira, Gilson R. P.. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; BrasilFil: Vargas, Héctor A.. Universidad de Tarapacá de Arica; ChileFil: Gonçalves, Gislene L.. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Brasil. Universidad de Tarapacá de Arica; ChileFil: Mainardi, Marina D.. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; BrasilFil: San Blas, Diego German. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Pampa; ArgentinaFil: Davis, Donald. National Museum of Natural History; Estados Unido

Lasiothyris luminosa (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae): a new grapevine pest in northeastern Brazil.

The little-known Neotropical tortricid moth Lasiothyris luminosa (Razowski& Becker) is reported for the first time as a grapevine pest in Northeastern Brazil. A diagnosis based on morphological characters including the genitalia is provided for both sexes, together with a preliminary description of economic damage caused by the larval stage. In addition, we sequenced a partial region of the cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene from specimens from the region, and reconstructed phylogenetic relationships using representative lineages of closely related tortricids as terminals. The larvais endophagous, feeding on the inflorescence from closed buds before flower anthesistoopen flowers and later, inside fruits at different maturation stages, causing them to rot. Preliminary surveys carried out on a few farms indicate that the effective damage may reach circa 10% of table-grape production in the region

Wave profile and tide monitoring system for scalable implementation

A versatile, miniaturized, cost-effective, low-power wave profile and tide monitoring system, capable of long-term and scalable deployment, was developed to integrate pressure and temperature sensors in an RS485 network, for standalone operation with organized memory or real-time shared data monitoring. The pressure and temperature sensors are controlled by low-power microcontrollers, that communicate the data periodically to a datalogger, that depending on the application, store it in a removable SD card or send it to a server via Wi-Fi. The data is then analyzed to compensate for the loss in amplitude sensitivity according to the sensor’s depth. The wave profile can be sampled at a maximum rate of 100 Hz, with a 1 cm resolution. The system was tested successfully in real-life conditions, in rivers Douro and Cávado, and off the coast of Viana do Castelo.João Rocha was supported by the doctoral Grant PRT/BD/154322/2023 financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), and with funds from Portuguese State Budget, European Social Fund (ESF) and Por_Norte, under MIT Portugal Program. This work is co-funded by the projects K2D: Knowledge and Data from the Deep to Space (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-045941), SONDA (PTDC/EME-SIS/1960/2020), ATLÂNTIDA (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000040) and CMEMS - UIDB/04436/2020 and UIDP/04436/2020