Ecotoxicological characterization of the Guarapiranga reservoir: study of possible adverse effects of heavy metals, pesticides and environmental stressors on aquatic fauna

• Grant number: 12/16420-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 2013
• End date: March 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Sanitary Engineering - Environmental Sanitation
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Luiz Martins Pompêo
• Grantee: Julio César López Doval
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The aim of this project is to know the chemical and ecological status of waters and sediments of Guarapiranga reservoir and discriminate possible adverse factors for biota. To achieve this objective is planned sampling water and sediments for chemical analyses of pesticides, heavy metals and cyanotoxins, as well as are planned sampling sediments to study the benthic invertebrate community. With data compiled, we will try to find statistical patters that could explain the community composition and in consequence what are the environmental or chemical stressors which drive the fauna composition. Laboratory bioassays, with benthic organisms, will be performed in order to discriminate environmental stressors, others than chemicals, as adverse factors for biota, and dismiss possible adaptation of natural community to the environmental conditions. Data obtained in this research will help policymakers and water managers in implementation of policies intended to a best water management and minimization of environmental degradation of the Guarapiranga reservoir. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(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)

LOPEZ-DOVAL, JULIO C.; MEIRELLES, SERGIO TADEU; CARDOSO-SILVA, SHEILA; MOSCHINI-CARLOS, VIVIANE; POMPEO, MARCELO. Ecological and toxicological responses in a multistressor scenario: Are monitoring programs showing the stressors or just showing stress? A case study in Brazil. Science of The Total Environment, v. 540, n. SI, p. 466-476, JAN 1 2016. (12/16420-6, 12/11890-4, 13/08272-0)

FREDERICO G.S. BEGHELLI; MAURÍCIO CETRA; MERCEDES MARCHESE; JÚLIO CÉSAR LÓPEZ-DOVÁL; ANDRÉ H. ROSA; MARCELO L. M. POMPÊO; VIVIANE MOSCHINI-CARLOS. Taxonomic and non-taxonomic responses of benthic macroinvertebrates to metal toxicity in tropical reservoirs. The case of Cantareira Complex, São Paulo, Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, v. 92, n. 2, 2020-04-22. (12/16420-6, 14/22581-8, 12/11890-4, 13/03494-4, 13/08272-0)

KUZMANOVIC, MAJA; LOPEZ-DOVAL, JULIO C.; DE CASTRO-CATALA, NURIA; GUASCH, HELENA; PETROVIC, MIRA; MUNOZ, ISABEL; GINEBREDA, ANTONI; BARCELO, DAMIA. Ecotoxicological risk assessment of chemical pollution in four Iberian river basins and its relationship with the aquatic macroinvertebrate community status. Science of The Total Environment, v. 540, n. SI, p. 324-333, JAN 1 2016. (12/16420-6)

CARDOSO-SILVA, SHEILA; LOPEZ-DOVAL, JULIO CESAR; MOSCHINI-CARLOS, VIVIANE; POMPEO, MARCELO. Metals and limnological variables in an urban reservoir: compartmentalization and identification of potential impacted areas. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT, v. 190, n. 1, JAN 2018. (12/16420-6)

CARDOSO-SILVA, S.; MEIRELLES, S. T.; FRASCARELI, D.; LOPEZ-DOVAL, J. C.; ROSA, A. H.; MOSCHINI-CARLOS, V.; POMPEO, M.. Metals in superficial sediments of a cascade multisystem reservoir: contamination and potential ecological risk. ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES, v. 76, n. 22, NOV 2017. (12/16420-6, 14/22581-8)

LEAL, P. R.; MOSCHINI-CARLOS, V.; LOPEZ-DOVAL, J. C.; CINTRA, J. P.; YAMAMOTO, J. K.; BITENCOURT, M. D.; SANTOS, R. F.; ABREU, G. C.; POMPEO, M. L. M.. Impact of copper sulfate application at an urban Brazilian reservoir: A geostatistical and ecotoxicological approach. Science of The Total Environment, v. 618, p. 621-634, MAR 15 2018. (12/16420-6)

DE SOUZA BEGHELLI, FREDERICO GUILHERME; CESAR LOPEZ-DOVAL, JULIO; HENRIQUE ROSA, ANDRE; POMPEO, MARCELO; MOSCHINI CARLOS, VIVIANE. Lethal and sublethal effects of metal-polluted sediments on Chironomus sancticaroli Strixino and Strixino, 1981. ECOTOXICOLOGY, v. 27, n. 3, p. 286-299, APR 2018. (12/11890-4, 13/08272-0, 12/16420-6, 14/22581-8, 13/03494-4)

LOPEZ-DOVAL, JULIO C.; MONTAGNER, CASSIANA C.; DE ALBURQUERQUE, ANJAINA FERNANDES; MOSCHINI-CARLOS, VIVIANE; UMBUZEIRO, GISELA; POMPEO, MARCELO. Nutrients, emerging pollutants and pesticides in a tropical urban reservoir: Spatial distributions and risk assessment. Science of The Total Environment, v. 575, p. 1307-1324, JAN 1 2017. (12/16420-6, 12/11890-4, 14/24740-6)

LOPEZ-DOVAL, JULIO C.; MEIRELLES, SERGIO TADEU; CARDOSO-SILVA, SHEILA; MOSCHINI-CARLOS, VIVIANE; POMPEO, MARCELO. Ecological and toxicological responses in a multistressor scenario: Are monitoring programs showing the stressors or just showing stress? A case study in Brazil. Science of The Total Environment, v. 540, p. 11-pg., 2016-01-01. (13/08272-0, 12/16420-6, 12/11890-4)

KUZMANOVIC, MAJA; LOPEZ-DOVAL, JULIO C.; DE CASTRO-CATALA, NURIA; GUASCH, HELENA; PETROVIC, MIRA; MUNOZ, ISABEL; GINEBREDA, ANTONI; BARCELO, DAMIA. Ecotoxicological risk assessment of chemical pollution in four Iberian river basins and its relationship with the aquatic macroinvertebrate community status. Science of The Total Environment, v. 540, p. 10-pg., 2016-01-01. (12/16420-6)