Rosalinda Carmela Montone

• Abstract

  Although microplastics are ubiquitous, only scarce information is available in the Brazilian marine area, mainly close to the continental shelf. Many plastic material and debris are disposed in shoreline dumps or aquatic areas and end in the sea. The presence of microplastics in the marine environment will be assessed in water and sediment samples collected in the continental shelf of Bra…

  Microplastics on the Southern and Southeastern coast of Brazil: occurrence, distribution and sources, AP.R

• Abstract

  The presence of plastic pellets in the oceans and beaches has become of particular concern because of the economic, esthetic, and ecological impacts. Before end up on the beach, the pellets float in the ocean and some pollutants, such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can be sorbed with concentration factors of 106. This adsorption is know…

  Assessment of marine contamination by persistent organic pollutants (POPs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and metals through plastic pellets found on the beaches of São Paulo State coast, AP.R

• Abstract

  Atol das Rocas Biological Reserve (03°45'- 03°56' S; 33° 37'- 33°56'W) holds the biggest population of seabirds of Brazil. The seabirds are vulnerable to many pollutants such as: petroleum and their derivatives, persistent organic pollutants, and the anthropogenic solid residues. The pollution by solid residues, mainly plastic has been causing the decrease of several species of seabirds' …

  Contamination of Atol das Rocas Marine Biological Reserve by solid residues and organic pollutants, AP.R

• Abstract

  The use of large amounts and a broad variety of chemicals that are potentially harmful to the environment (including persistent organic pollutants (POPs), personal care products (PCPs), flame retardants, and others) compromises the quality of water bodies, sediment and associated biota. The occurrence of such a high number of compounds in the environment leads to interferences during chem…

  Emerging contaminants in the South and Southeastern coast of Brazil: implementation of the analytical method and environmental distribution, BP.PD

• Abstract

  Given the minimal direct human influence on Antarctica, the issue of how compounds as the POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants), which are necessarily synthetic, arrive to this isolated and remote area, arises. Such compounds evaporate in warmer regions, then undergo atmospheric transport to cold remote regions (such as the Poles), with consequent condensation and possible input in the lo…

  Vegetation and soil as indicators of relevant secondary pollutants sources in Antarctic ecosystems, BP.PD

• Abstract

  The Southern Giant Petrel, Macronectes giganteus, is an important top predator in the South Atlantic and Antarctic Oceans. The largest populations are found on the Falkland, South Georgia and South Shetland Islands, in the latter of which few ecological studies on this species have been carried out. Remote environments, such as the Antarctic Ocean, are subject to the introduction of diffe…

  Ecology and conservation of southern giant Petrels (Macronectes giganteus) on King George and Elephant islands, south Shetland, Antarctica: organic and inorganic pollutants and carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes as environmental indicators, BP.PD

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  The use of large amounts of chemicals that are potentially harmful to the environment threatens water, sediment and biota. Although thousands of organic chemicals are being constantly produced, environmental studies and routine monitoring programs are usually focused on a short list of contaminants, especially well-known persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and, more recently, emerging co…

  Non-target screening of anthropogenic compounds in sediments and dolphins from Brazil, BE.EP.PD

• Abstract

  Given the minimal direct human influence on Antarctica, the issue of how compounds as the POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants), which are necessarily synthetic, arrive to this isolated and remote area, arises. Such compounds evaporate in warmer regions, then undergo atmospheric transport to cold remote regions (such as the Poles), with consequent condensation and possible input in the loc…

  Vegetation and soil as indicators of relevant secondary pollutants sources in Antarctic ecosystems, BE.EP.PD

• Abstract

  Currently it is believed that some manmade chemicals are affecting the health of the human and the wild animals' population. This project focuses on an emerging contaminant, fipronil, classified as highly toxic to some animals, and in small quantities can lead some birds to death. Degradation occurs slowly and its metabolite, fipronil sulfone is more toxic and persistent in the environmen…

  Bioavailability of the insecticide fipronil in Magellanic Penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus, BE.EP.DD

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)