Foraminifera in microtopographic transects at the Itapanhaú River mangrove, Bertioga (SP): ecological patterns as reference for reconstructions of the relative sea level

• Grant number: 11/16874-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: July 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Oceanography - Biological Oceanography
• Principal Investigator: Décio Luis Semensatto Junior
• Grantee: Camila Cunha Passos
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas (ICAQF). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Diadema. Diadema , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Intertidal foraminifera have been successfully used for monitoring the relative sea-level all around the world. Nevertheless, the achievement of this task demands the establishment of recent foraminiferal associations related to altimetric intervals and respective flooding frequency. Thus, the present project goal to study the community structure of foraminifera in terms of diversity and species composition, collected in samples from microtopographically controlled transects in mangroves of the Rio Itapanhaú estuary, Bertioga (SP, Brazil), distributed in salinity and flooding frequency gradients. We are going to seek ecological patterns that may cooperate for the establishment of micropaleontological references for monitoring the relative sea-level during the Holocene, in the São Paulo state coast.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PASSOS, CAMILA CUNHA; KUKIMODO, ISABELA; SEMENSATTO, DECIO. Foraminiferal assemblages along the intertidal zone of Itapanhau River, Bertioga (Brazil). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 79, p. 297-306, NOV 2017. (11/16874-4)