Insights on the evolution of the living Great Amazon Reef System, equatorial West Atlantic. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 AbstractThe Great Amazon Reef (GARS) is an extensive mesophotic reef ecosystem between Brazil and the Caribbean. Despite being considered as one of the most important mesophotic reef ecosystems of the South Atlantic, recent criticism on the existence of a living reef in the Amazon River mouth was raised by some scientists and politicians. The region is
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The Great Amazon Reef System: A fact [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Thomás Nei Soto Banha. +20 more
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Perspectives on the Great Amazon Reef: Extension, Biodiversity, and Threats [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018 Here we provide a broad overview of the Great Amazon Reef System (GARS) based on the first-ever video surveys of the region. This footage supports four major hypotheses: (1) the GARS area may be six times larger than previously suggested (up to 56,000 km2); (2) the GARS may extend deeper than previously suggested (up to 220 m); (3) the GARS is composed
Ronaldo B. Francini‐Filho +11 more
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Plume Layer Influences the Amazon Reef Sponge Microbiome Primary Producers [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Symbiont relationships between corals and photosynthetic microorganisms sustain coral reef existence. However, the Great Amazon Reef System (GARS) stays under a plume layer that attenuates the entry of light, and instead of corals, sponges are the major reef epifauna, for which little is known about the function of the associated microbiome.
Otávio Henrique Bezerra Pinto +8 more
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Genome-resolved metagenomic analysis of Great Amazon Reef System sponge-associated Latescibacterota bacteria and their potential contributions to the host sponge and reef [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiomes, 2023 The Great Amazon Reef System (GARS) is an extensive biogenic reef influenced by a plume layer of sediments. This creates an extreme environment where light is reduced, thus affecting physicochemical properties as well as living organisms such as sponges and their microbiomes.
Rafael S. Oliveira +6 more
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New Insight Into the Reproductive Biology and Catch of Juveniles of the Lutjanus purpureus in a Portion of the Great Amazon Reef System Off the Northern Brazilian Coast [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 The Southern red snapper, Lutjanus purpureus, is a valuable economic resource, especially in international market. However, no recent data are available on the reproductive biology of this species in Brazilian waters, in particular, the stock found on the Amazon reef.
Julliany L. Freire +4 more
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Sponge microbiomes from Great Amazon Reef System [PDF]
, 2023 Ana Carolina Soares
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The Physiography of the Lower Amazon Valley as Evidence Bearing on the Coral Reef ProblemM [PDF]
Science, 1917 n ...
John L. Rich
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RIPPLE MARKS • Coral Reef Discovered in an Unlikely Locale: The Amazon River’s Freshwater Plume [PDF]
Oceanography, 2016 Cheryl Dybas
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Geo-Marine Letters, 2023 The Great Amazon Reef System is a living biogenic mesophotic reef ecosystem that has been recently described along the shelf break of Brazil. An oceanographic cruise was carried out in 2019 along the outer edge of the French Guiana Shelf. A side-scan sonar survey was conducted to locate reef outcrops and allowed twelve in situ 80- to 120-m depth dives ...
Pierre Giressè +5 more
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