A importância do Kriol Jazz Festival no setor turístico da Cidade da Praia

O turismo é uma atividade económica muito importante para os destinos. Por isso é importante investir no desenvolvimento deste setor de forma a atrair mais visitantes. O turismo de eventos surge como meio de apresentar uma oferta mais completa, acompanhando a evolução dos interesses do consumidor. Este engloba diferentes tipos de eventos, entre eles os eventos musicais, que têm a música como a principal atração do evento. Nestes inserem-se os festivais de música, que têm atraído um número crescente de consumidores e, por isso, os destinos procuram adicioná-los ao seu programa turístico. A sua realização ajuda no combate à sazonalidade e gera emprego. A presente dissertação visa analisar a importância do Kriol Jazz Festival para o setor turístico da Cidade da Praia, em Cabo Verde. O Kriol Jazz Festival é um festival realizado na Cidade da Praia (Cabo Verde) desde 2009, no mês de abril, onde se promove a “Criolidade”, com participação de artistas crioulos de vários países. O festival visa também servir de palco para jovens músicos cabo-verdianos, que têm a oportunidade de apresentar ao público o seu trabalho. No presente estudo foi utilizada uma metodologia qualitativa, assente num estudo de caso. Foi realizada uma entrevista semiestruturada, ao fundador e organizador do festival, que possibilitou perceber a visão da entidade organizadora do festival na criação do Kriol Jazz Festival e a sua importância para a cidade em termos turísticos. Devido às dificuldades sentidas na recolha de informação qualitativa, houve a necessidade de recorrer a um instrumento de recolha de dados da metodologia quantitativa, um inquérito por questionário, direcionado às entidades ligadas ao setor turístico da Cidade da Praia. Mesmo com uma amostra reduzida pôde-se perceber que para tais entidades o Kriol Jazz Festival tem um efeito positivo no setor turístico da cidade. Nestas condições concluiu-se que a realização do Kriol Jazz Festival traz benefícios para o turismo da Cidade da Praia, como o aumento do número de entrada de turistas na cidade, o aumento de gastos destes mesmos turistas e a melhoria nas infraestruturas da cidade.Tourism is a very important economic activity for destinations. That is why it is important to invest in the development of this sector to attract more visitors. Event tourism emerges as a means of presenting a more complete offer, following the evolution of consumer interests. This encompasses different types of events, including musical events, which have music as the main attraction of the event. These include music festivals, which have attracted a growing number of consumers and, therefore, destinations seek to add them to their tourist program. Its implementation helps to combat seasonality and generates employment. The present dissertation aims to analyse the importance of the Kriol Jazz Festival for the tourist sector of Cidade da Praia, in Cape Verde. The Kriol Jazz Festival is a festival held in Cidade da Praia (Cape Verde) since 2009, in April, where “Criolidade” is promoted, with the participation of Creole artists from various countries. The festival also aims to serve as a stage for young Cape Verdean musicians, who can present their work to the public. In the present study, a qualitative methodology was used, based on a case study. A semi structured interview was carried out with the founder and organizer of the festival, which made it possible to understand the vision of the festival's organizing entity in the creation of the Kriol Jazz Festival and its importance for the city in terms of tourism. Due to the difficulties experienced in collecting qualitative information, there was a need to resort to a quantitative methodology data collection instrument, a survey by questionnaire, aimed at entities linked to the tourist sector of Cidade da Praia. Even with a reduced sample, it could be seen that for such entities the Kriol Jazz Festival has a positive effect on the tourist sector of the city. Under these conditions, it was concluded that the holding of the Kriol Jazz Festival brings benefits to the tourism of Cidade da Praia, such as the increase in the number of tourists entering the city, the increase in expenses of these same tourists and the improvement in the city’s infrastructure

Two new records of Gynandromorphs in Xylocopa (Hymenoptera, Apidae s.l.)

Two new records of gynandromorphs in Xylocopa Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Gynandromorphs are deviant morphological individuals with genetically distinct male and female tissues. Records of sex anomalies seems to be important to better understand the mechanisms regulating phenotypic expression. Herein, two new cases of gynandromorphs in carpenter bee species of Xylocopa from Brazil are described and figured: a mixed gynandromorph of the X. (Neoxylocopa) brasilianorum (Linnaeus, 1767) from São Paulo and a bilateral gynandromorph of the X. (Neoxylocopa) ordinaria Smith, 1874 from Sergipe

Spilotes sulphureus Wagler, 1824 (Squamata: Colubridae): review of distribution and first record in the state of Sergipe, northeastern Brazil

We present the first record of Spilotes sulphureus for the state of Sergipe. In Brazil, this species is distributed Amazon Rainforest, Atlantic Forest and Caatinga biomes. This large-bodied snake has arboreal habit, is diurnal, has oviparous reproduction, feeds on birds, eggs, lizards, bats, amphibians and small mammals and presents the defensive behaviour of lateral compression of the body

Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in an Ecotonal Cerrado-Amazon Region in Brazil

Little is known about the distribution of organisms in transitional areas, overall because of the lack of understanding regarding each species’ specificity to the diversity of microhabitats found in these areas and effective ways to sample organisms in these regions. Therefore, in this study we aimed to inventory the bee species in a transitional Cerrado-Amazon area in the state of Pará, Brazil, evaluating the effects of three different sampling methods. We used six fragments, sampled in two different seasons with three sampling methods (arboreal pitfalls with urine, scent traps, and pan traps). The specimens were identified and we used accumulation curves to measure the effectiveness of each method. In total, we sampled 68 bee species, where 53 were exclusively from one single sampling method. The pitfall traps were those with reached the highest species richness among all three sampling methods analyzed, followed by the scent traps and pan traps, respectively. Despite the efficiency and generality of the bee groups we found, the pitfall method does not cover specific bee groups as the Euglossini bees, almost exclusively attracted to scent traps. Therefore, we suggest that studies using pitfalls with urine should be performed in other biomes to evaluate the efficiency of this method in future bee surveys

Xenohyla eugenioi Caramaschi, 1998 (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae): geographic distribution and new record from the state of Sergipe, northeastern Brazil

The genus Xenohyla is currently composed of two species, X. truncata (Izecksohn, 1959) and Xenohyla eugenioi Caramaschi, 1998. Both species are usually found inside bromeliads; X. truncata inhabits the restingas of the state of Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil, and X. eugenioi transitional areas between the Atlantic Forest and the Caatinga biomes in northeastern Brazil. We report the first record of X. eugenioi in the state of Sergipe, expanding the species geographic distribution by 423.4 km in a straight line in relation to its type locality, in the municipality of Maracás, south-central state of Bahia, Brazil

The Influence of abiotic factors on the foraging activity of Cephalotes borgmeieri (Kempf, 1951)

The foraging activity can be defined as the search for food resources and is an activity of utmost importance for ant colony maintenance. Workers can be exposed to adverse environmental conditions during foraging, and because of it, some species can adjust their foraging behavior to achieve greater success in the search for resources. The foraging behavior has been studied in other ant species; however, studies with the Cephalotini tribe are still scarce in the literature. In this study, we evaluated how Cephalotes borgmeieri (Kempf) foragers adjust their foraging activity to variations in abiotic factors. Throughout the day, the flow of foragers is positively influenced by temperature and luminosity and negatively affected by relative air humidity. Wind speed does not affect the flow of foragers. During the day, we can observe four groups of activity intensity: very low, low, medium, and high. The foraging peak occurs at the hottest and least humid times of the da

Two new records of Gynandromorphs in Xylocopa (Hymenoptera, Apidae s.l.)

Abstract Two new records of gynandromorphs in Xylocopa Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Gynandromorphs are deviant morphological individuals with genetically distinct male and female tissues. Records of sex anomalies seems to be important to better understand the mechanisms regulating phenotypic expression. Herein, two new cases of gynandromorphs in carpenter bee species of Xylocopa from Brazil are described and figured: a mixed gynandromorph of the X. (Neoxylocopa) brasilianorum (Linnaeus, 1767) from São Paulo and a bilateral gynandromorph of the X. (Neoxylocopa) ordinaria Smith, 1874 from Sergipe

Modeling the potential distribution to present and future of the poorly known species Xenohyla eugenioi Caramaschi, 1998 (Anura: Hylidae) with findings about its distribution, natural history, and conservation

Abstract The distribution of amphibians is conditioned by historical factors and ecological drivers. Thus, Ecological Niche Models are important tools to provide information on the potential distribution of the species and determine where they will be requirements in future. Mainly, rare species or with restricted areas of occurrence, because this information are essential to understanding of their living area, microhabitat use, or natural history, serving as a basis for preservation actions. Xenohyla eugenioi is a poorly known species, restricted to transition areas of Caatinga and Atlantic Forest from Minas Gerais to Sergipe. This species exhibits little biological information available and few specimens housed in museums, which difficulty to plan conservation strategies. Here our aim was modeling the current and future distribution and discussing about conservation of Xenohyla eugenioi. We searched for occurrence records through literature and scientific collections data. For the future (2071-2100), we used ensemble models from three algorithms (CTA, GLM and ANN) to two shared socioeconomic pathways (SSP370 and SSP585 scenarios). This species has approximately 650 km in straight line between the extreme localities, occurring mainly in bromeliads near to water bodies. The Ensemble method indicates the most suitable areas of occurrence were over ecotonal range between Caatinga and Atlantic Forest and our projections have showed suitable conditions to highlands (up to 1.000 m). However, in the future, is expected total erosion of the X. eugenioi populations, due climatic changes, which reinforce the caution to conservation of this poorly known species and necessity of studies about its ecology, natural history and distribution. Moreover, we hope that this work can contribute to the discovery of new records, characterizing the narrower niche space than this species may actually inhabit

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