Eucalyptus forests in Brazil are a major driving force in the economy, especially with regard to the paper and cellulose, furniture, wood and energy sectors. However, due to the occupation of the species throughout the ...

The correct inference of growth and forest production are important factors for decision making in planning, with different models based on regression statistics. These models are used to determine the technical and economic ...

Biomass is a renewable resource that is increasingly being used as an energy source. This dissertation aimed to study the economic viability of using biomass for power generation. In Chapter 1, the contributions of renewable ...

Urban density triggers several environmental and social problems, most of them associated with the difficulty of maintaining and providing ecosystem services in these landscapes. In this sense, interventions are necessary ...

Forests are important for several ecosystem services that bring benefits to man, mainly support services, such as nutrient cycling, climate mitigation, erosion control, water resource recharge, among others. Therefore, the ...

Organic production is recent in Brazil, starting in the 1970s, at a time when conventional production already had several credit incentives and was expanding. Brazilian agriculture has great representativeness in the world ...

Byopolymers, such as pectin, have the ability to form gels which allows their use as jelly thickeners in food industries, for example. Porous pectin gels are generally homogeneous, forming a water-rich mesh. Pores are ...

The ecophysiological behavior of plants is intrinsic to each plant species and is also influenced by environmental conditions such as solar radiation and water availability. Once the ecophysiology of tree species and their ...

In the past, sugarcane was harvested manually with the aid of fire to facilitate cutting. And because of the Law of the State of São Paulo n. 11,241, which establishes the end of the use of the burning, the sugarcane trash ...

We live in a world in which each social group has different knowledge, values and beliefs, due to its natural, historical, cultural and social contexts. Understanding the relationships between human societies and ecosystems ...