When mankind began its relationship with nature, the space started to suffer transformations as a consequence of this interaction. The urban landscape of the cities, seen as a mixture of new and old spatial interventions ...

The current study examines the production of urban space in São Pedro SP, considering that it occurs in a very peculiar way, where urban spaces spread on countryside in search for region's natural amenities, creating an ...

The present work aims to elaborate an acquaintance about the social and spatial inequalities still few studied in non-metropolitan urban realities, specifically in small towns. Therefore this dissertation attempts to weave ...

The analysis of spatial transformations passing a priori by deconstructing something. Despite the negative prefix deconstruction is far from a bad thing, above all, it is needed. Deconstruction varies from minimum to ...

Deconstructing biological communities by grouping species according to their commonness or rarity might improve our understanding about the processes driving variation in biological communities. Such an approach considers ...

Brazil is facing severe problems in relation to urban spaces theme. Some age groups such as the elderly have found more difficulties to ensure their socio-spatial integration. This issue, combined with the demand for proper ...

The use of species traits offers a promising approach to the understanding of the main processes underlying metacommunity patterns. We analyzed samples of periphytic algae in 30 environments of the Upper Parana River ...

Environmental and spatial variables can distinctly influence the occupancy frequency distributions in stream fish. From a metacommunity context, we tested the following hypothesis, intermediate species are governed by ...