February 2018

Volume 43 Issue 02

/Editorial/

Miguel Laufer

THE TIMING OF THE CHANGES IN THE GEOGRAPHY OF OUR SCIENCE

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 /Articles/

Orleno Marques da Silva Junior, Marco Aurélio dos Santos y Leonardo Sousa dos Santos

SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS OF DEFORESTATION IN RESPONSE TO THE BUILDING OF THE BELO MONTE HYDROELECTRIC PLANT IN THE AMAZON BASIN (in English)

80

Andrea Pérez-Vidal, Luis Germán Delgado-Cabrera, Juan Carlos Escobar-Rivera, Camilo Hernán Cruz-Vélez y Patricia Torres-Lozada

HAZARD ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL CONTROL POINTS IN CONVENTIONAL WATER TREATMENT PLANTS (in Spanish)

85
/Reports/

Pablo Valladares Faúndez, Natalia Urrutia Osorio, Nicole Álvarez Henríquez y Sergio Alvarado Orellana

COMPARISON OF THE BURROWING OWL (Athene cunicularia) DIET AT INTRA- AND INTER-SPECIFIC LEVEL IN THE ATACAMA DESERT, CHILE (in Spanish)

 93

Rita De Cássia Marques Lima De Castro y Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes

THE CONTRIBUTION OF FORMAL EDUCATION TO THE EFFICIENCY IN AGRICULTURE: AN ANALYSIS FROM THE LITERATURE REVIEW (in Portuguese)

 98

Francisco Marcelo Lara Viveros, Nadia Landero Valenzuela, Graciano Javier Aguado Rodríguez, Muhammad Ehsan, Vicente Moreno Hernández y Alejandro Ventura Maza

USE OF AMMONIUM IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF STEVIA PLANTS (Stevia rebaudiana BERTONI) IN HYDROPONIC CONDITIONS (in Spanish)

106

Silvia Cristina Carrera

GROWTH AND SURVIVAL OF CAPAZ LARVAE Pimelodus grosskopfii (STEINDACHNER, 1879) DURING TRANSITION TO A DRY DIET (in Spanish)

111

Alexandra Torres Navarrete, Julio Cesar Vargas Burgos, Yudel García Quintana y Yasiel Arteaga Crespo

PARTIAL CHEMICAL COMPOSITION, AND MORPHOMETRIC AND SENSORY CHARACTERISTICS OF ORGANICALLY AND CONVENTIONALLY PRODUCED FRUITS OF NARANJILLA (Solanum quitoense var. palora) IN THE WAMANI COMMUNITY, ECUADORIAN AMAZON (in Spanish)

115

Juan Carlos Ruge, Jorge A. Navarro y Fabio Malagon

FACTORS INFLUENCING THE CORRECT POSITIONING OF OFFSHORE JACK UP RIGS IN THE COLOMBIAN CARIBBEAN SEA (in English)

 120
Nelson Guilherme Machado Pinto, Vanessa Piovesan Rossato y Daniel Arruda Coronel

AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN LATIN AMERICA: AN INDEX APPROACH IN COUNTRIES OF THIS REGION (in English)

125

Fernanda Guimarães, Vanessa de Araujo Veloso, Danielle Soares Malveira, Hugo Calixto Fonseca Maximiliano Soares Pinto, Roberta Torres Careli y Eduardo Robson Duarte

SELECTION OF LACTIC BACTERIA WITH PROBIOTIC POTENTIAL FROM FERMENTED BOVINE TRANSITION MILK (in Portuguese)

 132

Manuel Flores-Zárate, Angélica Bautista-Cruz, Flavio Aragón-Cuevas y Verónica Martínez-Gallegos

PHOSPHATE-SOLUBILIZING BACTERIAL CO-INOCULA AND THEIR EFFECT ON GERMINATION AND PLANT GROWTH OF COMMON BEAN (in Spanish)

137
/Essays/

Rómulo Santelices Moya, Sergio Espinoza Meza, Antonio Cabrera Ariza y Carlos Magni Díaz

RISK MANAGEMENT AS A TOOL FOR THE CONSERVATION OF THE FORESTS OF Nothofagus alessandrii, AN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF CENTRAL CHILE (in Spanish)

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