Suplementação com prebiótico, probiótico e simbiótico para juvenis de tambaqui a duas densidades de estocagem

The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of prebiotic (mannan oligosaccharides), probiotic (Bacillus subtilis), and synbiotic diet supplementations on juvenile tambaquis (Colossoma macropomum), at two stocking densities, for growth, food utilization, survival, and economic parameters. A total of 192 juveniles (2.4±0.2 g) was distributed in 32 aquaria (20 L), in a completely randomized design, in a 2x4 factorial arrangement, with four replicates, during eight weeks. Tests were performed for 0.35 and 1.05 kg m‑3 stocking density. The supplementation was constituted of: 2 g kg‑1 prebiotic; 2 g kg‑1 probiotic; 2 g kg‑1 prebiotic + 2 g kg‑1 probiotic; and a control. Stocking density had no effect on fish survival, although it decreased economic and growth parameters. Probiotic and synbiotic supplementation increased growth, and improved feed utilization and economic parameters. The control diet showed the lowest economic efficiency index, while the highest index was obtained by diets supplemented with synbiotic. Growth, food utilization, and economic parameters increased with the probiotic and synbiotic supplementation in diets for juvenile tambaquis, although there is no synergistic effect between the evaluated prebiotic and probiotic supplementations.O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o efeito da suplementação de rações, com prebiótico (mananoligossacarídeo), probiótico (Bacillus subtilis) e simbiótico, em juvenis de tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum), em duas densidades de estocagem, quanto aos parâmetros de crescimento, utilização do alimento, sobrevivência e econômicos. Um total de 192 juvenis (2,4±0,2 g) foi distribuído em 32 aquários (20 L), em delineamento inteiramente casualizado, em arranjo fatorial 2x4, com quatro repetições, durante oito semanas. Testaram-se 0,35 e 1,05 kg m‑3 para a densidade de estocagem. A suplementação constituiu-se de: 2 g kg‑1 de prebiótico; 2 g kg‑1 de probiótico; 2 g kg‑1 de prebiótico + 2 g kg‑1 de probiótico; e controle. A densidade de estocagem não influenciou a sobrevivência dos peixes, embora tenha causado a redução dos parâmetros econômicos e de crescimento. A suplementação com probiótico e simbiótico aumentou o crescimento, melhorou a utilização do alimento e os parâmetros econômicos. A ração controle apresentou o menor índice de eficiência econômica, enquanto o maior índice foi obtido pelas rações suplementadas com simbiótico. Os parâmetros de crescimento, utilização do alimento e econômicos aumentaram com a suplementação com probiótico e simbiótico, em rações para juvenis de tambaqui, embora não haja efeito sinergístico entre o prebiótico e o probiótico avaliados

Influence of Solar Radiation and Wet Processing on the Final Quality of Arabica Coffee

The coffee growing in the state of Espírito Santo has some peculiarities that differ from the other regions producing Arabica coffee in Brazil because it has a diversity of edaphoclimatic conditions that influence the final quality of the bean. This study aimed to demonstrate and quantify the effect of solar radiation and of different forms of wet process on the final quality of Arabica coffee in crops located in the altitude range of 950 meters, in order to understand what would be the best wet processing methods for the coffee cultivated to the East (sun-grown) and coffee cultivated to the South-Southeast (shade-grown). The results indicate that shading has a significant effect on the final quality of the Arabica coffee, as well as the type of wet process used to process the beans after harvest. Therefore, there is a need to study in depth the factors related to the processing, edaphoclimatic, and relief conditions inherent to mountain coffee cultivation

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5,6,7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world's most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepresented in biodiversity databases.13,14,15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may eliminate pieces of the Amazon's biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological communities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple organism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region's vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most neglected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lost

Different foods in larvicultura of traíra (Hoplias malabaricus)

ABSTRACT. Pereira S.L., Mendonça P.P., Pellanda A.S., Matielo M.D. & Gon- çalves Junior L.P. [Different foods in larvicultura of traíra (Hoplias malabaricus).] Utilização de diferentes alimentos na larvicultura de traíra (Hoplias malabaricus). Revista Brasileira de Medicina Veterinária, 37(3):233-238, 2015. Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Avenida Alberto Lamego, 2000, Parque Califórnia, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ 28013-602, Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] The feeding in the larviculture of species carnivorous view point for closing of the technological packages of rearing culture. Developed in the sector of Aquicultura of the IFES - Campus of Alegre, this work it aimed at to compare the performance with four diet feed as first exogenous feeding for traíra (Hoplias malabaricus), parameters evaluated: Survival, length final (CF), final weight (PF), tax of specific growth (TCE), development tax specifies (TDE), being put in container with fifteen liters of water, with constant aeration, have five larva of traíra/container. The delineation entire was aleatory with four treatments and five repetitions. Being the diet feeds represented for T1: Nauplios de Artemia sp.; T2: microworm of oats (Pannagrelos redivivus); T3: Wild Zooplâncton; e the inert food represented by T4: Commercial ration in dust with 55% of crude protein and 4,200 Kcal de ED/kg of ration. The water exchange was of 80% daily, the average temperature was of 27.5±1°C. The indices of survival in the T1, T2, T3 and T4, had been 84%, 72%, 100% and 92%, respectively. The date had been submitted analyze it statistics ANOVA and test of Tukey (P<0.01). Wild Zooplâncton was biggest CTF, PF, GP, TCE and TDE. Did not have difference statistics between the Artemia sp. the ration for TCE and TDE. The microworm of oats was minor CF, PF, TCE and TDE. The treatment Wild zooplankton (T3) showed optimum diet food among the other diet feeds tested for the development and the survival of the larva of traíra, that in turn the treatment (T4) - the ration was adapts precociously, getting low mortality with the inert ration diet feed

Five different foods in initial development of siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens)

The aim of this study was to test the use of five different foods for the initial growth of the Betta splendens. The experiment was performed in randomized design with five treatments and five replications, 125 animals with average initial weight of 0.0013±0.0003 g and length averaging 0.56±0.04 cm. The treatments were: T1-Artemia nauplii, T2-egg yolk, T3-feed powder, T4-Daphnia and T5-plankton, provided for 30 days. At the end, we measured the standard length, total length, height, weight, specific growth rate, specific development rate and survival. Statistical difference was observed at 5% for survival and the level of 5% for other variables by the Tukey test, being the Artemia nauplii the food with best results for all variables, following then the egg yolk and feed powder that did not differ statistically. © 2019, BIOFLUX SRL. All rights reserved

Dietary mannan oligosaccharide and Bacillus subtilis in diets for Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

 A six week study was conducted to investigate the supplementation of prebiotic (Mannan oligosaccharide – MOS, from yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae), probiotic (Bacillus subtilis – BS, C-3102 strain) and their combination in diets for Nile tilapia. 192 fishes (4.03 ± 0.28 g) were distributed into 16 tanks (40-L), in a completely randomized design (n=4). The following treatments were evaluated: control; prebiotic - 2 g MOS kg-1; probiotic - 2 g BS kg-1 and synbiotic - 1 g MOS kg-1 plus 1 g BS kg-1. Fishes fed diets pre-, pro- and synbiotic supplemented performed better in average daily gain, feed conversion rate, specific growth rate, protein efficiency ratio, carcass yield, total and standard length and body height than those maintained on control diets. The probiotic supplementation resulted in higher villus height and intestinal perimeter ratio than the control diet while the pre- and synbiotic supplementation in diets resulted in higher intestinal perimeter ratio. Carcass protein and ether extract were, respectively, higher and lower in fish fed synbiotic diets than other fish. The results of this study indicated that the mannan oligosaccharide and Bacillus subtilis supplementation, isolated or combined (synbiotic), could improve growth, body index, intestine morphometry and carcass composition in Nile tilapia.

Suplementação com prebiótico, probiótico e simbiótico para juvenis de tambaqui e duas densidades de estocagem.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o efeito da suplementação de rações, com prebiótico (mananoligossacarídeo), probiótico (Bacillus subtilis) e simbiótico, em juvenis de tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum), em duas densidades de estocagem, quanto aos parâmetros de crescimento, utilização do alimento, sobrevivência e econômicos. Um total de 192 juvenis (2,4±0,2g) foi distribuído em 32 aquários (20L), em delineamento inteiramente casualizado, em arranjo fatorial 2x4, com quatro repetições, durante oito semanas. Testaram-se 0,35 e 1,05kgm-3 para a densidade de estocagem. A suplementação constituiu-se de: 2gkg-1 de prebiótico; 2gkg-1 de probiótico; 2gkg-1 de prebiótico +2gkg-1 de probiótico; e controle. Adensidade de estocagem não influenciou a sobrevivência dos peixes, embora tenha causado a redução dos parâmetros econômicos e de crescimento. A suplementação com probiótico e simbiótico aumentou o crescimento, melhorou a utilização do alimento e os parâmetros econômicos. A ração controle apresentou o menor índice de eficiência econômica, enquanto o maior índice foi obtido pelas rações suplementadas com simbiótico. Os parâmetros de crescimento, utilização do alimento e econômicos aumentaram com a suplementação com probiótico e simbiótico, em rações para juvenis de tambaqui, embora não haja efeito sinergístico entre o prebiótico e o probiótico avaliados.2016Título em inglês: Prebiotic, probiotic and synbiotic supplementation in diets for juvenile tambaquis at two stocking densities