February 2012

Volume 37 Issue 02

/Editorial/

Jon Paul Rodríguez and Franklin Rojas-Suárez

OPENING PUBLIC DATABASES ON VENEZUELAN BIODIVERSITY TO GREATER PARTICIPATION BY THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY

86
 /Articles/

Marcelo Tabarelli, Antônio Venceslau Aguiar, Milton Cezar Ribeiro and Jean Paul Metzger

THE CONVERSION OF THE ATLANTIC FOREST IN ANTHROPOGENIC LANDSCAPES: LESSONS FOR THE CONSERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF TROPICAL FORESTS (in Spanish)

88

José G. Rodríguez-Quintal

CHARACTERIZATION OF CRYPTOBENTHIC REEF FISHES AT THE SAN ESTEBAN NATIONAL PARK, VENEZUELA (in Spanish)

93

María Valentina Fuentes H, Surima Dakdouk, Luisa Rojas de Astudillo, Andrés A. Escalona and Armando Ramírez

PRESENCE AND SOURCES OF AROMATIC POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS IN SUPERFICIAL SEDIMENTS AT THE CARIACO GULF SAC, VENEZUELA (in Spanish)

99

Ruth Magnolia Martínez Peña, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, José Tulio Arredondo Moreno, María Cecilia Costero Garbarino and Francisco Peña de Paz

ANALYSIS OF THE SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPT IN MEXICAN LEGISLATION USING THE DRYLANDS DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM (in Spanish)

107

Ma. de Lourdes de la Rosa-Carrillo, Manuel S. Domínguez-Rosales, Martha E. Pérez-Reyes and Eugenio Pérez-Molphe-Balch

IN VITRO CULTURE AND PROPAGATION OF THREATENED CACTI OF THE Turbinicarpus genus (in Spanish)

114

Mirza Cequea and Carlos Rodríguez-Monroy

PRODUCTIVITY AND HUMAN FACTORS. A MODEL WITH STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS (in Spanish)

121
/Reports/

Martín Durán-García, Yrina Ramírez, Ricardo Bravo and Luis Rojas-Solórzano

BIOGAS HOME-PRODUCTION ASSESSMENT USING A SELECTIVE SAMPLE OF ORGANIC VEGETABLE WASTE. A PRELIMINARY STUDY (in English)

128

María Beatriz Barreto and Eduardo Barreto-Pittol

FIRST REPORT OF Rhizophora racemosa MEYER (RHIZOPHORACEAE) IN THE MANGROVE FORESTS OF THE VENEZUELAN CARIBBEAN COAST (in English)

133

Laís Bentes de Almeida, Ceci Sales-Campos, Cristiane Suely Melo de Carvalho, Marli Teixeira de Almeida Minhoni and Meire Cristina Nogueira de Andrade

VIABILITY OF MYCELIAL GROWTH OF Coprinus comatus IN CULTURE MEDIUM BASED ON ORGANIC RESIDUES (in Portuguese)

138

Carlos Alberto Fuenmayor, Carlos Mario Zuluaga-Domínguez, Amanda Consuelo Díaz-Moreno and Martha Cecilia Quicazán

‘MIEL DE ANGELITA’: NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF Tetragonisca angustula HONEY (in English)

142

Eduardo P. Pérez E. and Andrea Araya

GROWTH ESTIMATES FOR Haliotis rufescens IN A CAPTIVITY IN NORTHERN CHILE (in Spanish)

148
/Essays/

Alejandro José Leo Vargas, Salvador Adame Martínez and José de Jesús Jiménez Jiménez

MOBILITY, SUSTAINABILITY AND FUELS OF BRT SYSTEMS IN MEXICO (in Spanish)

154