| Journal: | The journal of venomous animals and toxins |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000298536 |
| ISSN: | 0104-7930 |
| Authors: | Lourenco, W.R1 Cuellar, O2 |
| Institutions: | 1Societe de Biogeographie, París. Francia 2University of Utah, Department of Biology, Salt Lake City, Utah. Estados Unidos de América |
| Year: | 1995 |
| Volumen: | 1 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Pages: | 51-62 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| English abstract | Recently public health problems resulting from scorpion stings have shown an alarming increase in various tropical and subtropical countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Tunisia and Morocco. In some regions of Brazil, particularly in the States of Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Bahia, Goiás and the Federal District, more than 6000 scorpion stings with over 100 deaths were reported during a three-year period. In this paper, we attempt to demostrate the effects of human activities on the environment and their consequences on the distribution of dangerous species of scorpions. This topic is discussed in relation to the evolutionary ecology, life history strategies and asexual reproduction of scorpions |
| Disciplines: | Biología, Medicina |
| Keyword: | Quelicerados, Salud pública, Toxicología, Escorpionismo, Escorpiones, Historia de vida, Partenogénesis |
| Keyword: | Biology, Medicine, Chelicerata, Public health, Toxicology, Scorpionism, Scorpions, Life history, Parthenogenesis |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver HTML) |
