Environmental and sanitary conditions of Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 Guanabara Bay is the second largest bay in the coast of Brazil, with an area of 384 km2. In its surroundings live circa 16 million inhabitants, out of which 6 million live in Rio de Janeiro city, one of the largest cities of the country, and the host of ...
Giovana De Oliveira Fistarol +15 more
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Updated range distribution of the non-native Asian green mussel Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758) at Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [PDF]
PeerJGuanabara Bay, located at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is a highly urbanized and polluted estuary that houses different port areas, shipyards, and marinas of intense maritime traffic.
Luciana V. R. de Messano +7 more
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Coasts, 2023 Bioavailability assessment is important for evaluating the risks to the local biota, and the combined use of several ecological risk indices in eutrophic environments allows the best analysis of the local reality for decision-making.
Ana Paula de Castro Rodrigues +10 more
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Building a baseline: a survey of the composition and distribution of the ichthyofauna of Guanabara Bay, a deeply impacted estuary [PDF]
Neotropical Ichthyology, 2023 Biodiversity baselines are essential subsidies to evaluate how environmental changes and human impacts affect the special and temporal patterns of communities.
Clara V. Teixeira-Leite, Marcelo Vianna
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Recent benthic foraminifera from the Itaipu Lagoon, Rio de Janeiro (southeastern Brazil) [PDF]
Check List, 2016 Itaipu Lagoon is located near the mouth of Guanabara Bay and has great importance for recreation to the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
Débora Raposo +8 more
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THE EFFECTS OF URBAN/INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION IN GUANABARA BAY ON THE PERCEPTION OF ARTISAN FISHERMEN [PDF]
Ambiente & Sociedade, 2020 The objective of this research was to obtain the environmental perception of fishermen of Itaoca Island regarding the effects of urban/industrial expansion in Guanabara Bay on their fishing and housing spaces. Through exploratory qualitative research, it
Francisco Tavares Filho +4 more
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The Devil on a Dying Bay: Brazilian Marine Plasticarianism at Guanabara Bay
CALIBRE - Revista Brasiliense de Engenharia e Física Aplicada, 2021 <p>This article provides an overview of the known current situation of Guanabara Bay with respect to its pervasive plastic waste pollution, continuing the paired authors' previous works. In addition, the study opens up a broader public discussion on the fundamentals of global degradation, proposing a review of environmental education curriculums ...
Nilo Serpa, Richard Cathcart
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Bacterial production in Guanabara Bay (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) evaluated by ³H-leucine incorporation [PDF]
Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2000 The aim of this work was to evaluate the necessary ³H-leucine concentration to estimate bacterial production in Guanabara Bay through saturation curves.
Alessandra M. Gonzalez +3 more
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GUANABARA BAY: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION THROUGH AN INTERDISCIPLINARY THEMATIC [PDF]
Periódico Tchê Química, 2010 This paper shows an interdisciplinary project that involved two scholar subjects: Chemistry and Regional Studies (subject of business administration course of Fundação Osório). The Guanabara Bay was the scene for observations and discussions about the origins, causes and possible solutions in terms of time scale for the environmental question.
Paulo Sérgio Alves DE SOUZA +1 more
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Revista Tamoios, 2010 Ninety-two bottom surface sediment samples were collected in the Guanabara bay using a van-Veen sampler. They were analyzed for grain size distribution and organic matter.
Mauricio de Sousa Dias Guimarães +4 more
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