Special Issue: Animal Production and Sustainable Rural Development: approaches that contribute to the growth of the Brazilian agriculture

The Special Issue: "Animal Production and Sustainable Rural Development" aims to create a space for discussion, reflection and dissemination of knowledge about animal production, reproduction and conservation. In this, we seek to bring together works that discuss and report livestock and agriculture as diversified activities that influence the socioeconomic sector and regional development. This context comprises productive, technological, social, and environmental studies, as long as they benefit the rural space; concern for environmental quality and rational use of natural resources will be differential.

The following topics guide this special issue (but not restricted to):

Animal production and sustainable rural development: a growing sector in the economy that requires sustainable practices;
Innovation and technologies in animal reproduction: productivity expansion and increased efficiency in the reproductive process;
Conservation, Morphology, Cytogenetics, and Animal Reproduction: morphological studies through basic anatomy, diagnostic imaging, and cytogenetics, in addition to studies on taxonomy, systematics, biology, behavior and interspecific and intraspecific interactions of zoological groups;
Agroecology and production chains: views of the peasantry, biodiversity and sustainable production of plant and animal products;
Animal health, epidemiology, pathogenesis and control of animal diseases and food microbiology: studies in diagnosis, epidemiology, pathophysiology, control, treatment and prevention of diseases that affect domestic and wild animals.
Management and conservation of natural resources: studies in ecology, agroclimatology, soil science, hydrology, land use and planned agriculture.
Use and conservation of fishing resources: conservation policies, studies of perception and environmental monitoring of the ichthyofauna present in the aquatic environment (fresh and salty).

Based on these suggestive themes, we invite researchers (students and professors) to contribute by submitting their work.

Guest Editors: Thiago Machado da Silva Acioly, Diego Carvalho Viana (Universidade Estadual da Região Tocantina do Maranhão)