Increasing drought and salinity tolerances in economically important trees adapted to dry land areas is key challenge for maintaining the socioeconomic welfare of dry land areas. Strategies to improve drought and salt tolerance must examine the tree physiological mechanisms that link to the trees survival and growth. This study examined physiological adaptive traits allowing Senegalia senegal to grow better in both saline and dry lands. We conducted two greenhouse experiments and one field study to characterize growth, photosynthetic capacity, water use efficiency (WUE) and gum arabic yield potential among different Senegalia senegal provenances. In the first experiment, we tested early growth and photosynthetic response of seed sources to a cyclic drought treatment. The second greenhouse study examined seed source response to drought, salinity and fertility conditions. Gum yield assessment, growth and WUE of mature trees were determined from a field trial. In general, results showed a high intra genetic variability of Senegalia senegal on gum yield, biomass accumulation and growth. Ngane provenance presented superior growth characteristics as both mature trees and seedlings and exhibited a more conservative water use strategy under drought. Both greenhouse studies revealed similar photosynthetic capacity among Senegalia senegal genotypes when conditions are not limiting. However, when factors such as salinity, fertility and severe drought are involved, different physiological and morphological responses appear and at times this was dependent on seed source. But, at moderate drought stress (chapter 2), no drought by provenance interaction was found. Results of chapter 3 revealed that Ngane has larger stomata with low density in comparison with Diamenar and Kidira provenances. With the exception of Ng21B1, all seed sources displayed similar adaptations to salt stress in term of biomass accumulation. Fertilizer increased total biomass of all seed sources from 63% to 213% for Ng21B1 and K17B19, respectively. However, salinity reduced the fertilizer effect on biomass increment. Leaf gas exchanges were affected by salinity and fertilizer within various responses among seed sources. Results of chapter 4 revealed that gum yield was found to be positively correlated with tree height, crown width, stem volume index and crown area index. Ngane and Diamenar appeared the best provenances in term of annual gum yield per hectare. Diamenar had a higher survival rate than Ngane. This finding reveals the need to consider the tradeoff between tree survival rate and individual tree gum yield in Senegalia senegal stands. In addition to being more sensitive to salinity, Ngane also seems to be more susceptible to low soil pH in terms of survival, but this result needs to be tested further. This study suggests that improvement of gum arabic production can be possible through genetic selection. But, for the best adapted genotypes, research should explore new genetic combination and investigate physiology and genetic diversity. Moreover, the findings on the relationship between soil pH and tree survival rate suggests a need for care in selecting appropriate sites for Senegalia senegal stands. Therefore, silviculture practices as well as genetic selection appear critical in improving gum arabic production. / Ph. D.

Thèse en cotutelle : Université Laval, Québec, Canada et Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France. / Ce mémoire vise à élucider les principaux enjeux et problématiques qui caractérisent le marché de l’art actuel pour pouvoir ensuite présenter et évaluer des pistes de solutions émanant de la technologie de chaîne de blocs. Ce marché est effectivement aux prises avec certaines difficultés d’authenticité et d’authentification des œuvres d’art : on parle même d’une crise de l’expertise en authentification. Il est aussi question d'adversités dans l’établissement et la preuve de provenance des œuvres qui y circulent, car le marché repose sur un équilibre fragile et semble ne pas avoir su prendre le virage numérique à temps. Enfin, on relate aussi un manque de transparence dû au désir de confidentialité et de secret qui règne autant chez les marchands d’arts que chez les collectionneurs. Le développement croissant des technologies décentralisées a permis des avancées dans plusieurs secteurs au cours des dernières années, et il appert qu’elles pourraient potentiellement agir à titre de pilier au sein du marché de l’art par leurs caractéristiques d’immuabilité, de distribution et de transparence. Nous pourrons de ce fait constater l’utilité des registres distribués, des contrats intelligents et de la tokénisation pour pallier les problématiques observées. Il demeure toutefois que l’adoption générale de la chaîne de blocs dans un marché si séculaire n’est pas sans limites. Il conviendra alors d’étudier les obstacles que cette nouvelle technologie devra surmonter pour pouvoir garantir l’authenticité et la provenance des œuvres, de même qu’une transparence accrue sur le marché de l’art. Enfin, dans le but d’assurer une adoption équilibrée et profitable à long terme, il sera primordial de prendre compte des intérêts des divers intervenants impliqués. / This paper aims to elucidate the main issues that characterize the current art market in order to present, assess and evaluate potential solutions stemming from blockchain technology. This market is indeed grappling with certain difficulties of authenticity and authentication of works of art: there is even signs of a crisis of expertise. At the moment, it is also burdensome to establish the provenance of art circulating on the market for different reasons. Firstly, because the market is very fragile and second, because it seems to have failed to take advantage of technologies in time. Finally, we can witness a lack of transparency, mainly due to the desire for confidentiality and secrecy which reigns as much among art dealers as among collectors. The increasing development of decentralized technologies has enabled progress in several industries recently, and it appears that it could offer a certain support within the art market due to their characteristics of immutability, transparency and security. We will therefore be able to see the usefulness of distributed ledgers, smart contracts and tokenization to alleviate the problems we have observed. The fact remains, however, that the general adoption of blockchain technology in such a secular industry is not without limits It will therefore be necessary to study the challenges this new technology will have to overcome in order to guarantee the authenticity and provenance of art, as well as price transparency. Finally, in order to ensure a balanced and profitable adoption in the long term, it will be essential to take into account the interests of the various stakeholders involved.

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[pt] Determinar a proveniência dos dados, isto é, o processo que levou a esses dados, é vital em muitas áreas, especialmente quando é essencial que os resultados ou ações sejam confiáveis. Com o crescente número de aplicações baseadas em inteligência artificial, criou-se a necessidade de torná-las capazes de explicar seu comportamento e responder às suas decisões. Isso é um desafio, especialmente se as aplicações forem distribuídas e compostas de vários agentes autônomos, formando um Sistema Multiagente (SMA). Uma maneira fundamental de tornar tais sistemas explicáveis é rastrear o comportamento do agente, isto é, registrar a origem de suas ações e raciocínios, como em uma depuração onisciente. Embora a ideia de proveniência já tenha sido explorada em alguns contextos, ela não foi extensivamente explorada no contexto de SMA, deixando muitas questões para serem compreendidas e abordadas. Nosso objetivo neste trabalho é justificar a importância da proveniência dos dados para SMA, discutindo quais perguntas podem ser respondidas em relação ao comportamento do SMA, utilizando a proveniência e ilustrando, através de cenários de aplicação, os benefícios que a proveniência proporciona para responder a essas questões. Este estudo envolve a criação de um framework de software, chamado FProvW3C, que suporta a coleta e armazenamento da proveniência dos dados produzidos pelo SMA, que foi integrado a plataforma BDI4JADE (41), formando o que denominamos de Prov-BDI4JADE. Por meio desta plataforma, utilizando exemplos de sistemas autônomos, demostramos com rigor que, o uso da proveniência de dados em SMA é uma solução sólida, para tornar transparente o processo de raciocínio e ação do agente. / [en] Determining the data provenance, that is, the process that led to those data, is vital in many areas, especially when it is essential that the results or actions be reliable. With the increasing number of applications based on artificial intelligence, the need has been created to make them capable of explaining their behavior and be responsive to their decisions. This is a challenge especially if the applications are distributed, and composed of multiple autonomous agents, forming a Multiagent System (MAS). A key way of making such systems explicable is to track the agent s behavior, that is, to record the source of their actions and reasoning, as in an omniscient debugging. Although the idea of provenance has already been explored in some contexts, it has not been extensively explored in the context of MAS, leaving many questions to be understood and addressed. Our objective in this work is to justify the importance of the data provenance to MAS, discussing which questions can be answered regarding the behavior of MAS using the provenance and illustrating, through application scenarios, to demonstrate the benefits that provenance provides to reply to these questions. This study involves the creation of a software framework, called FProvW3C, which supports the collects and stores the provenance of the data produced by the MAS, which was integrated with the platform BDI4JADE (41), forming what we call Prov-BDI4JADE. Through this platform, using examples of autonomous systems, we have rigorously demonstrated that the use of data provenance in MAS is a solid solution to make the agent’s reasoning and action process transparent.

Nous avons étudié deux chênaies à la limite de l’aire de répartition de l’espèce que Québec afin de reconstruire son historique de régénération et évaluer quels facteurs gouvernent la régénération juvénile. Dans cette optique, nous avons mené une étude dendrochronologique exhaustive des chênaies et une étude sur le terrain et en serre portant sur la germination, la survie et la croissance de quatre provenances de chêne rouge (gradient nord-sud), avec ou sans herbivorie, et selon plusieurs niveaux de nutriments du sol suivant une fertilisation. Les chênaies présentent des structures d’âge similaire qui coïncident avec les dernières perturbations de feu majeures dans la région autour des années 1920. Toutefois, les chênaies diffèrent quant à la densité et la composition en espèces d’arbres, ce qui suggère des différences de régime de feu ou de statut de succession écologique antérieure au feu. Le site a eu la plus grande influence sur la régénération du chêne rouge. Les semis du site présentant la densité d’arbres, l’indice de surface foliaire (LAI) et la disponibilité en eau les plus élevés ont montré un taux de survie supérieur de 29 %. La protection contre la grande herbivorie a également affecté la performance des semis, résultant en au taux de survie supérieur de 16 % et une plus grande taille des feuilles pour trois des quatre provenances étudiées. La provenance a aussi significativement influencé la performance des semis. La provenance locale (la plus nordique) a montré la plus faible performance, avec des taux de germination, de survie et de croissance inférieures de 28 à 42 % dans les deux expériences, alors que les provenances du sud ont montré une meilleure germination et survie en serre et une meilleure survie sur le terrain. L’augmentation de la fertilité du sol s’est avérée bénéfique dans l’expérience en serre mais n’a provoqué qu’un effet marginal sur la croissance et la survie sur le terrain, suggérant que ce facteur importe moins que les autres (ex. la disponibilité en eau et en lumière) pour les stades initiaux de régénération du chêne rouge. Nos résultats suggèrent que les efforts en sylviculture visant à favoriser le chêne rouge devraient se concentrer sur la sélection rigoureuse de sites et de provenances, et que la disponibilité de l’eau peut être une condition limitante pour le succès de la régénération du chêne rouge aux stades de gland et de semis juvénile (semis de l’année) à la limite nordique de son aire de répartition. / We studied two red oak stands at the northern distribution limit of the species in Quebec as a means to reconstruct regeneration history and assess which factors govern early regeneration. To do so, we conducted a thorough dendrochronological study of the stands as well as germination and seedling growth experiments, both in the field and in the greenhouse, of four red oak provenances (south-north gradient), with and without large herbivory, and along various soil nutrient levels following fertilization. Stands have similar age structures with red oak establishment coinciding with the last major fire disturbance in the area in the early 1920s. However, stands differ in regard to tree species composition and density, suggesting differences in fire disturbance regime or ecological succession status prior to fire. Site had the largest influence on red oak regeneration. Seedlings at the site with the highest tree density, LAI and soil water availability exhibited a 29 % higher survival rate. Protection against large herbivory also significantly impacted red oak seedling performance, leading to a 16 % higher survival rate as well as greater leaf size for three of the four provenances studied. Germination, survival and growth also significantly differed between provenances. The local (northernmost) provenance exhibited the poorest overall performance with 28 to 42 % lower germination, survival and growth rates in the two experiments, while the two southernmost provenances exhibited superior germination and sprout survival in the greenhouse and higher survival in the field. An increase in soil nutrient availability was beneficial to red oak in the greenhouse, but only marginally benefited survival and growth in the field, suggesting that this factor is of less importance than other factors (e.g. water and light availability) for red oak early regeneration. Our findings suggest that silvicultural efforts to favor red oak should focus on site and provenance selection, and that water availability is currently limiting red oak regeneration success at acorn and early seedling life stages (i.e. yearlings) near its northern distribution limit.

Semantic-Representation-Provenance-Contextual-Information-Scientific-Research Die Computer- und Informationstechnologie ist eine der größten Errungenschaften des letzten Jahrhunderts -- eine Revolution, welche die Art und Weise beeinflusst, auf die wir im täglichen Leben auf technische und soziale Problemen reagieren. Obwohl diese Technologien bereits Forschungsaktivitäten an sich beeinflussen, so ist zu erwarten, dass sie auch einen Einfluss auf das Publizieren und Teilen von Forschungsergebnissen haben werden. Bisher wurden in wissenschaftlichen Publikationen nur in geringem Maße Daten beigefügt. Forschungförderungseinrichtungen drängen zu konkreten Lösungen zum Verbreiten, Teilen und Wiederverwenden von Forschungsergebnissen. Berichte wie “Riding the Wave - How Europe can gain from the rising tide of scientific data” der High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data der Europäischen Kommission zeichnen eine Vision, bei der die Herausforderungen einer Diversität an Datenformaten, Menschen und Gemeinschaften durch die Anwendung technischer, semantischer und sozialer Eigenschaften der Interoperabilität vermieden werden. Diese Forschung adressiert derartige Herausforderungen aus einer technischer Perspektive. Fokus dieser Arbeit ist die Exploration eines neuartigen Ansatzes zur Unterstützung der Kuration (Sichtung und Korrektur) von Forschungsdaten mittels der Entwicklung einer Methodologie und mittels der Definition eines automatischen Datenkurationsprozesses in welchem Daten auf einfache Weise annotiert werden können. Ein Beitrag besteht in einem formalen Modell (COSI), welches die Integration großer Mengen an Metadaten erlaubt, welche als logische Konzepte behandelt werden können anstatt nur als Literale. Diese Konzepte werden in einer Ontologie definiert, welche, unter anderem, Inferenzen und Schlussfolgerungen ermöglicht. Der zweite Beitrag dieser Arbeit besteht in einer pragmatischen Lösung die es erlaubt, Metadaten on-the-fly zu annotieren. / Computational and information technology is one of the biggest advancement of the last century, a revolution that is influencing the way we approach social and technical problems in our day to day life. While these technologies have already influenced the research activity per sé, it is to be expected that these innovations will significantly influence the publishing and sharing of scientific results as well. So far, scientific publications have relied on limited result data attached inline in research paper publications. Establishments supporting research are pushing for concrete solutions that allow dissemination, share and reuse of research results. Reports such as “Riding the Wave - How Europe can gain from the rising tide of scientific data” of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data, European Commission (High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data, October 2010) presents a vision where the challenges of diverse data formats, people and communities are avoided due to the application of technical, semantic and social features of interoperability. This research is an effort to address similar concerns from a technical perspective. Focus of this research is the exploration of a novel approach on supporting research data curation by developing a method and defining an automated data curation process where data can be easily annotated. As a contribution, this work offers a formal model (COSI) that allows integration of plentiful metadata that can be treated as logic concepts and not merely as literals. These concepts are defined in an ontology that allows among other actions, inference and reasoning operations. The second contribution of this work is associated to a pragmatic solution that facilitates annotation of metadata on the fly. This solution is referred as sheer curation and shows how data can be annotated (based on COSI) and published while investigations are executed.

<p>The physical properties of the coarse fraction of the till (0.4 to 20 cm) and the surface boulders have been studied at two different sites in Sweden. The research work included: development of a new image analysis software for 3D size and shape measurements of particles; lithological analysis on multiple size fractions in till and magnetic susceptibility survey on coarse till clasts, surface boulders and local bedrock.</p><p>The new 3D image analysis method provides an enormous amount of size and shape data for each particle in the coarse fraction (2 to 20 cm) in till. The method is suitable for field study, cost effective and the software is executable in Matlab. The field imaging method together with the image analysis software give non subjective results of size and shape of coarse particles and makes it feasible and easy to study representative sample size, which is one tonne for testing clasts of size up to 20 cm.</p><p>The lithological analysis of the multiple size fraction of the till clasts has been investigated on six different size fractions of the till (0.4 to 20 cm); the result of the different samples from the two sites shows that this method can potentially be used as a stratigraphic tool in the areas where there is no unique indicator lithologies.</p><p>The magnetic susceptibility has been made on the surface boulders, the 6-20 cm till fraction and on insitu bedrock outcrops near to the study sites. The method has good potential for determining stratigraphic relationships between different till units as well as for determining the provenance ofcoarse clasts and surface boulders.</p>

El presente trabajo tuvo como objetivo principal determinar la prevalencia de Hidatidosis ovina en el centro de Faenamiento FRILISAC (Camal de Yerbateros de Lima) durante los años 2012-2015 y como objetivos específicos determinar la prevalencia mensual y la prevalencia según procedencia, así como las pérdidas económicas producidas. El trabajo consistió en una investigación cuantitativa con diseño Retrospectivo, Descriptivo y Analítico. El material de estudio consistió en el análisis de las fichas de registro de beneficio mensual según especie, sexo y procedencia y del consolidado mensual de decomiso de órganos según especie. Se evaluó un total de 344073 ovinos, de ambos sexos y edades, procedentes de los departamentos de Lima, Ayacucho, Ica y Arequipa, registrados en fichas correspondientes a los años 2012-2015. La prevalencia total de Hidatidosis ovina obtenida durante los cuatro años de estudio fue de 0,32%. Los meses donde más se presentó la Hidatidosis ovina marzo, abril, mayo y diciembre. El departamento donde se obtuvo la mayor tasa de prevalencia fue el departamento de Ayacucho seguido por Lima e Ica donde se obtuvieron prevalencias más bajas, en el departamento de Arequipa no se obtuvo prevalencia alguna durante los años de estudio. El órgano más parasitado fue el pulmón. La pérdida económica total por el decomiso de órganos durante los cuatro años fue de US$ 1, 541,42 dólares. Los resultados obtenidos demuestran que probablemente se están realizando programas de control por parte de los ganaderos para evitar que sus animales contraigan el parásito, por lo cual existiría un riesgo menor para la salud animal y humana en los departamentos evaluados.The present work had as main objective to determine the prevalence of ovine Hidatidosis in the center of Slaughtering FRILISAC (slaughterhouse of Herbalists of Lima) during 2012-2015 and as specific objectives to determine the monthly prevalence and provenance prevalence, as well as economic losses produced. The work consisted in a quantitative research with retrospective, descriptive and analytical design. The study material consisted of monthly benefit record sheets according to species, sex and origin and monthly consolidated of organ confiscation by species. Was evaluated A total of 344,073 sheep, of both sexes and ages, from the departments of Lima, Ayacucho, Ica and Arequipa, registered in record sheets corresponding to the years 2012 to 2015. The overall prevalence of ovine Hidatidosis obtained during the four years of study was 0.32%. The months that presented the highest prevalences of ovine Hidatidosis were march, april, may and december. The department where the highest rates of prevalence were obtained was Ayacucho followed by Lima and Ica where the lowest prevalences were obtained, in the department of Arequipa was obtained any prevalence during the study. The most parasitized organ was the lung. The total economic losess for the confiscation of organs during the four years was US $ 1, 541.42 dollars. The obtained results demonstrate that there is a probably control by farmers to keep their animals from contracting the parasite, so there is a low risk for animal and human health in the departments of ovine tested.

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Análises de proveniência sedimentar são tradicionalmente utilizadas com o objetivo de reconstruir a relação entre depósitos sedimentares e suas respectivas áreas fonte, de forma a permitir a composição do contexto tectônico regional. Uma aplicação menos explorada dos métodos de análise de proveniência sedimentar é a avaliação detalhada das variações de áreas fonte ao longo da história de preenchimento de uma bacia sedimentar e das variações locais de proveniência em intervalos estratigráficos específicos. Tais estudos podem trazer importantes inferências sobre a configuração dos alto estruturais vizinhos à bacia sedimentar, assim como informações a respeito de eventos tectônicos capazes de mudar o padrão das drenagens que alimentam a bacia sedimentar. Na Bacia Camaquã (Ediacarano-Cambriano, RS) o Grupo Santa Bárbara e o Grupo Guaritas registram eventos de atividade de altos estruturais durante a sedimentação, responsáveis pela segmentação da bacia em sub-bacias. O Grupo Santa Bárbara compreende sucessões siliciclásticas distribuídas em três sub-bacias separadas pelos altos de Caçapava do Sul e da Serra das Encantadas. Na sub-bacia ocidental esse grupo apresenta depósitos de arenitos e conglomerados aluviais, depósitos siltoarenosos de ambientes fluviais distais e lacustres e depósitos conglomeráticos de leques aluviais, que compõem um ciclo retrogradacional inicial, seguido por dois ciclos progradacionais separados por uma superfície brusca. O Grupo Santa Bárbara na sub-bacia central, por sua vez, apresenta uma sucessão siltoarenosa com base conglomerática, que se estende até a porção média da sucessão sedimentar, quando dá lugar a depósitos conglomeráticos de leques aluviais que são depois sucedidos por nova sucessão siltoarenosa no topo da unidade. O Grupo Guaritas apresenta depósitos de rios entrelaçados na base e no topo da unidade, com interdigitação de sistemas deposicionais eólicos, de rios entrelaçados e de leques aluviais na porção intermediária da sucessão. Os depósitos do Grupo Santa Bárbara na sub-bacia ocidental foram investigados em detalhe por meio de levantamentos sistemáticos de dados de proveniência em escala de afloramento, em lâmina delgada e por meio de análises isotópicas em zircões detríticos. Os resultados mostram áreas fonte distintas entre os depósitos aluviais da base e do topo da unidade, sendo que em ambos a proveniência é local. Os depósitos da base têm áreas fonte a oeste e sudoeste da bacia, enquanto os depósitos do topo da unidade têm áreas fonte a leste da bacia, no alto de Caçapava da Sul, sugerindo uma mudança na configuração das áreas fonte que teria início correspondente ao primeiro nível conglomerático da sucessão aluvial intermediária da unidade. Adicionalmente os dados de proveniência indicam ausência de deslocamento entre áreas fonte e depósitos sedimentares indicando que o rejeito das falhas de borda é normal, como esperado para bacias do tipo rift. As sucessões sedimentares do Grupo Santa Bárbara na sub-bacia central foram investigadas de maneira preliminar por meio de análise de proveniência macroscópica. Os dados indicam pouca variação de áreas fonte na história da bacia, com áreas fonte predominantemente no Alto da Serra das Encantadas, que estaria então soerguido. Nos depósitos conglomeráticos superiores há uma contribuição de litoclastos atribuídos ao Alto de Caçapava do Sul. O Grupo Guaritas teve depósitos sedimentares do topo de sua sucessão estudados por meio de análise de proveniência macroscópica em depósitos de leques aluviais e em depósitos fluviais, que cobrem os anteriores em contato erosivo. Os dados apontam para proveniência estritamente local, do Alto da Serra das Encantadas nos depósitos de leques aluviais, enquanto que os depósitos fluviais contam com áreas fonte mais distantes, sugerindo que o Alto da Serra das Encantadas sofreu subsidência e foi recoberto nesse intervalo de tempo. Os dados indicam que o soerguimento do Alto de Caçapava do Sul, que se deu durante a deposição do Grupo Santa Bárbara e individualizou a sub-bacia ocidental, teria provocado uma progradação instantânea dos depósitos sedimentares, ao contrário do previsto em modelos tectônicos disponíveis, em consequência do aumento do aporte sedimentar pela erosão de sedimentos pouco litificados depositados sobre o Alto de Caçapava do Sul e de uma queda na taxa de subsidência das bacias provocado por um amplo domeamento antes da nucleação da falha de borda. Tal progradação está registrada nas sucessões aluviais intermediárias do Grupo Santa Bárbara nas sub-bacias ocidental e central. Após o estabelecimento da falha normal na borda leste do alto estrutural há uma passagem brusca para depósitos mais distais, na sub-bacia ocidental seguida de progradação de cunhas clásticas no topo da unidade, enquanto que na sub-bacia central há uma retrogradação sugerindo que o soerguimento do Alto de Caçapava do Sul tenha resultado na captura de um sistema de drenagem que alimentava toda a bacia para o graben da bacia ocidental, diminuindo assim o aporte sedimentar na sub-bacia central. O Grupo Guaritas indica, por sua vez, uma situação inversa, com mudança nos sistemas deposicionais provocada pela subsidência do Alto da Serra das Encantadas, que teria permitido a captura de sistemas de drenagem para dentro da bacia, promovendo o aumento do aporte sedimentar e a substituição dos sistemas eólicos e de leques aluviais por sistemas fluviais entrelaçados. / Sedimentary provenance is generally used aiming the reconstruction of the relations between sedimentary deposits and their source areas, in order to interpret the regional tectonic setting. An application that is less frequent in sedimentary provenance analysis is the detailed assessment of the changes in the source areas during the infilling history of a sedimentary basin and of the local variation of the provenance data in specific stratigraphic intervals. Such studies can result in important inferences concerning the configuration of adjacent structural highs, as well as information about tectonic events that are capable of changing the drainage network feeding the sedimentary basin. In the Camaquã Basin (RS) the Santa Bárbara and Guaritas groups register events of syn-sedimentary movement of structural highs, which caused the segmentation of the basin into sub-basins. The Santa Bárbara Group comprises siliciclastic successions distributed in three sub-basins separated by the Caçapava do Sul and Serra das Encantadas structural highs. The western sub-basin contains alluvial sandstones and conglomerates, siltstones and sandstones of fluvial and lacustrine environments, and alluvial fan conglomerates, disposed in a initial retrogradatinoal cycle, and two overlying progradational cycles, which are separated by a abrupt flooding surface. In the central sub-basin, the Santa Bárbara Group comprises a siltstone and sandstone succession with conglomerates at its base, followed by alluvial fan conglomeratic deposits in the middle part of the sedimentary succession, which in turn is succeeded by another succession of siltstones and sandstones at the top of the group. The Guaritas Group shows braided river deposits both at the base and the top of the unit, with interfingering of eolian, braided river and alluvial fan systems in the intermediate part of the succession. The deposits of the Santa Bárbara Group in the western sub-basin were investigated in detail through systematic studies of provenance both at the outcrop scale and in thin sections and by detrital zircon isotope analysis. The results show distinct source areas for the alluvial deposits of the base and the top of the unit, with a local sources for both of them. The lower deposits had source areas to the west and southwest of the basin, while the upper ones had source areas to the east of the basin, on the Caçapava do Sul High, suggesting a change in the configuration of the source areas, with its onset corresponding to the first conglomeratic level of the intermediate alluvial succession of the Santa Bárbara Group. The provenance data also shows that there is no significant lateral displacement deposits relative to their source areas, suggesting that the main displacement of the border faults was normal, as expected for rift basins. The sedimentary successions of the Santa Bárbara Group in the central sub-basin were preliminarily investigated through macroscopic provenance analysis. The data implies only in small changes of the source areas through the history of the basin, with source areas in the Serra das Encantadas High, which was then uplifted. In the upper conglomeratic deposits there is some contribution of lithoclasts from the Caçapava do Sul High. The sedimentary deposits of the top of the Guaritas Group were studied through macroscopic provenance analysis in alluvial fan and fluvial deposits, the latter covering the alluvial fans in erosive contact. The data points to strictly local provenance, from the Serra das Encantadas High in the alluvial fan deposits, while the fluvial deposits had also more distant source areas. This suggests that the Serra das Encantadas High subsided during this period, and was covered by the younger fluvial deposits. The collected data suggests that the Caçapava do Sul High uplift, which took place during the deposition of the Santa Bárbara Group and individualized the western sub-basin, triggered a progradation of the sedimentary deposits. This is not in accordance with the existing models, and could be explained as a result of both of an increase in the sedimentary input by erosion of unlithified sediments deposited on the Caçapava do Sul High and of the fall in the subsidence rates of the sedimentary basins due to a wide doming before the nucleation of the main border fault. Such progradation is registered in the alluvial successions of the Santa Bárbara Group in the western and central sub-basins. After the definition of the normal faulting in the eastern border of the structural high, an abrupt passage to distal facies took place in the occidental sub-basin, which was in turn was followed by progradation of clastic wedges on the top of the unit, while in the central sub-basin there is a retrogradation, suggesting that the uplift of the Caçapava do Sul High would have resulted in the capture of a main drainage system, that fed the entire basin, to the western basin graben, and so decreasing the sedimentary input to the central sub-basin. The Guaritas Group in its turn indicates a change in the depositional systems caused by the subsidence of the Serra das Encantadas High, which allowed the capture of drainage systems to the basin, thus increasing the sedimentary input and the substitution of the eolian and alluvial fan systems by braided fluvial systems.