Reviewing the effects of contamination on the biota of Brazilian coastal ecosystems: Scientific challenges for a developing country in a changing world

Marine fish and benthic biota before the 2019 oil spill: A baseline dataset for monitoring programs and impact assessments at Rio Grande Norte state, Northeastern Brazil

“…domestic sewage, fisheries, tourism). This allows the evaluation of habitat and biodiversity recovery as well as interactive effects of stressors on local ecosystems, which information is crucial for improving management strategies to mitigate the impacts of oil spill (Crain et al 2008, Martinez et al 2022. Some of the species listed here already have a long history of overexploitation fisheries and are harvested for food, medicine, the artcraft and aquarium market.…”

“…This is challenging in the Brazilian context due to its high biodiversity of species and habitat across a long coastline. There are still major gaps in basic ecological and biological knowledge of many species, ecosystems and regions along its coastline as well as about the impacts of contaminants on such biodiversity (Williams et al 2011, Martinez et al 2022. Notwithstanding, compiling the available data is a starting point for devising monitoring programs and identifying gaps in research that need to be fulfilled to improve baseline datasets for future environmental impact assessments and local scientific knowledge.…”

When One Health Meets the United Nations Ocean Decade: Global Agendas as a Pathway to Promote Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research on Human-Nature Relationships

“…Equally, its coastline suffers many problems associated with rapid urbanization including habitat loss and pollution. For instance, contamination of coastal waters by untreated domestic sewage is a major environmental problem ( Martinez et al, 2021 ) with negative impacts on the environment ( Arevalo et al, 2007 ; Wear and Thurber, 2015 ) and health of coastal communities (e.g., respiratory infections, gastroenteritis, and hepatitis A; Shuval, 2003 ). Additionally, the very complex nature of the environmental problems that this region faces demands institutions to work as part of a team to create flexible, adaptive, and fit-for-purpose policies to secure social-ecological justice and wellbeing for all humans ( Gonçalves et al, 2020a ).…”

Uma avaliação sistemática sobre os efeitos de metais e metaloides, presentes em sedimentos, sobre comunidades de macroinvertebrados bentônicos em estuário subtropical no Brasil – sistema estuarino de Paranaguá

“…A poluição marinha é reconhecia como um problema global e tem provocado diminuição na diversidade, abundância e vem facilitando a introdução de espécies invasoras (Martinez et al, 2022;Johnstonet al, 2017). Este cenário está se tornando crítico de acordo como aumento da carga de contaminantes, que está atrelada ao crescimento acelerado das cidades, principalmente nas áreas costeiras (Firth et al, 2016).…”

“…Os problemas de contaminação nas áreas costeiras são mais preocupantes nos países em desenvolvimento. Seja por falta de conhecimento científico, má governança ou mesmo desenvolvimento de atividades que são importante fonte de renda para as populações costeiras (Martinez et al, 2022;Gallego-Schmid e Tarpani, 2019).…”