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NEOTROPICAL FRESHWATER FISHES : A dataset of occurrence and abundance of freshwater fishes in the NeotropicsNARA Subscribed
The Neotropical region hosts 4225 freshwater fish species, ranking first among the world's most diverse regions for freshwater fishes. Our NEOTROPICAL FRESHWATER FISHES data set is the first to produce a large‐scale Neotropical freshwater fish inventory, covering the entire Neotropical region from Mexico and the Caribbean in the north to the southern limits in Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and Uruguay. We compiled 185,787 distri...
Innovative techniques used to plumb two 57 m height concrete buildings leaning 3.8 and 3.1 %NARA Subscribed
There are about a 100 buildings visibly inclined in the city of Santos. Until the year 2000 some attempts were realized to reduce inclinations of some of those buildings without success. This paper presents the work done to plumb two buildings: Tower A and Tower B of the Condominium Nuncio Malzoni, with 57 m height that were inclined 3.8 and 3.1 %, respectively. Tower A was 2.08 m out of plumb and was brought plumb through an...
The microbial community of Vetiver root and its involvement into essential oil biogenesisNARA Subscribed
Summary Vetiver is the only grass cultivated worldwide for the root essential oil, which is a mixture of sesquiterpene alcohols and hydrocarbons, used extensively in perfumery and cosmetics. Light and transmission electron microscopy demonstrated the presence of bacteria in the cortical parenchymatous essential oil‐producing cells and in the lysigen lacunae in close association with the essential oil. This finding and the evid...