Search Results - "Ferreira, Paulo Alves de Lima"
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Spatial distribution and enrichment assessment of heavy metals in surface sediments from Baixada Santista, Southeastern Brazil
Published in Marine pollution bulletin (15-02-2016)“…The Baixada Santista, besides being an important estuarine system, is responsible for most of the international trade and economic development in the region…”
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Paleolimnological evidence of environmental changes in seven subtropical reservoirs based on metals, nutrients, and sedimentation rates
Published in Catena (Giessen) (01-11-2021)“…[Display omitted] •Historical changes in sedimentation rate and metal levels were investigated.•Increasing SR was related to eutrophication and land use and…”
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Assessing the degree of ecological change and baselines for reservoirs: challenges and implications for management
Published in Journal of paleolimnology (01-12-2019)“…Tropical reservoirs are sensitive to eutrophication but long-term impacts of impoundment on their productivity and biota are poorly understood. Here, we employ…”
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Factors that control the spatial and temporal distributions of phosphorus, nitrogen, and carbon in the sediments of a tropical reservoir
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international (01-11-2018)“…The impacts of anthropic activities have had profound effects on the nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) cycles in many aquatic ecosystems. We investigated the…”
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Grain-size end-members and environmentally sensitive grain-size components: A comparative study in the mud shelf depocenters off southern Brazil
Published in International journal of sediment research (01-04-2021)“…The current study aims to do a comparative analysis of the results obtained with two End-Member (EM) grain-size modeling techniques (AnalySize and BasEMMA) and…”
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Bioaccumulation of potentially toxic trace elements in benthic organisms of Admiralty Bay (King George Island, Antarctica)
Published in Marine pollution bulletin (15-02-2014)“…•Toxic metals were released in the 2012 fire in the Brazilian base at Admiralty Bay.•Potentially toxic metals were measured in eight Antarctic benthos…”
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Reconstruction of historical trends in potentially toxic elements from sediment cores collected in Bertioga channel, southeastern Brazil
Published in Brazilian journal of oceanography (01-06-2013)“…The study presents an evaluation of potentially toxic elements deposition in Bertioga Channel (Southeastern Brazilian coast) along the last 150 years, the main…”
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136 Years of variation of sediment-associated metals in a subtropical reservoir in southern Brazil: Implications for the environmental change
Published in Catena (Giessen) (01-10-2023)“…[Display omitted] •Geochemical data of the Passauna reservoir sediments record the historical anthropogenic activities.•The enrichment factor during the period…”
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Historical mercury contamination in a major Latin American industrial and port complex: The case of the Santos estuary, Southeastern Brazil
Published in Marine pollution bulletin (01-11-2022)“…The present study determined total mercury (Hg) in four 210Pb dated sediment cores to assess the historical anthropogenic Hg accumulation in the Santos…”
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Past environmental changes: using sedimentary photosynthetic pigments to enhance subtropical reservoir management
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international (01-03-2024)“…The historical impacts of eutrophication processes were investigated in six subtropical reservoirs (São Paulo, Brazil) using a paleolimnological approach. We…”
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Paleolimnological evidence of the Inverted Trophic Cascade Hypothesis in a Neotropical lake
Published in Journal of paleolimnology (01-02-2024)“…In a natural lake of southeastern Brazil (Lake Carioca), the current scarcity of limnetic cladocerans is attributed to the predatory activity of the dipteran…”
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Chronostratigraphy elucidates environmental changes in lacustrine sedimentation rates and metal accumulation
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international (01-06-2023)“…All changes taking place in a watershed have repercussions on lacustrine environments, being these, the sink of all activities occurring in the basin. Lake…”
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Geochemical behavior, environmental availability, and reconstruction of historical trends of Cu, Pb, and Zn in sediment cores of the Cananéia-Iguape coastal system, Southeastern Brazil
Published in Marine pollution bulletin (01-02-2018)“…The Cananéia-Iguape system is located in a coastal region of southeastern Brazil, recognized by UNESCO as an Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve. This system has…”
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Trace element fluxes during the “Anthropocene” in a large South American industrial and port area (Santos and São Vicente estuarine system, SE, Brazil)
Published in Environmental monitoring and assessment (01-09-2021)“…The worldwide evidence of human activities on the environment led the scientific community to recognize a new geologic time unit known as the “Anthropocene.”…”
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Transfer of industrial contaminants from the inner to the outer region of Sepetiba Bay (SE Brazil) by dredge spoil dumping activities: a temporal record
Published in Environmental earth sciences (01-12-2023)“…A multiproxy approach involving grain size, geophysical (resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, and P-wave velocity), mineralogical (XRD), and geochemical…”
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Use of a chemometric tool to establish the regional background and assess trace metal enrichment at Baixada Santista – southeastern Brazil
Published in Chemosphere (Oxford) (01-01-2017)“…The trace metals in sediments consist of two components, anthropogenic and lithogenic or natural, which can cause misinterpretations for what actually exists…”
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Environmental changes reflected by sedimentary geochemistry for the last one hundred years of a tropical estuary
Published in Journal of marine systems (01-01-2019)“…Based on multiple proxies, such as major and trace elements, mineralogy, Corg/Ntotal ratio and δ13C, we assessed the natural and anthropogenic depositional…”
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Considerations on premises of recent (< 120 years) sedimentation rate models with unsupported 210Pb: a study case of sediment cores from mud shelf depocenters
Published in Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry (01-12-2023)“…This study examines the impact of the constant sedimentation—CS premise on sedimentation rates, mass accumulation rates and age-depth results obtained from…”
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Forensic assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to reconstruct anthropogenic activities in a nearby urban reservoir
Published in Journal of South American earth sciences (01-12-2022)“…This work examined the presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in two sediment cores from the Passauna reservoir, in southern Brazil. The sediment…”
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Sedimentation on the southern Brazilian shelf mud depocenters: Insights on potential source areas
Published in Journal of South American earth sciences (01-06-2020)“…In this paper, we investigate the characteristics of the shelf mud depocenters off South Brazil, between latitudes 27°30′S and 24°30′S. A combination of…”
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