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Oil spill in South Atlantic (Brazil): Environmental and governmental disaster
Soares, Marcelo de Oliveira; Teixeira, Carlos Eduardo Peres; Bezerra, Luís Ernesto Arruda; Paiva, Sandra Vieira; Tavares, Tallita Cruz LopesIn early September 2019, dense crude oil began to wash the beaches of Brazil's tropical coast. Four months after the first report, the oil has already been found along >3000 km of the Brazilian coastline on >980 beaches and was recently observed along the Amazon coast, making this oil spill the most extensive and severe environmental disaster ever recorded in Brazilian history, in the South Atlantic basin, and ...
Retirement risks: Invasive coral on old oil platform on the Brazilian equatoria...
Braga, Marcus Davis Andrade; Paiva, Sandra Vieira; Soares, Marcelo de Oliveira; et alensis) in an oil platform on the Brazilian equatorial continental shelf. This structure is located more than 1200 km north from other oil and gas structures colonized by this coral. We also discussed the retirement and decommissioning of old biofouling-encrusted oil and gas platforms (~62 platforms) from decreased production and the current oil crisis, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This presents an ecol...
Take care of the old shipwrecks before sinking new ships
Soares, Marcelo de Oliveira; Gurgel, Anne Larisse Alves Rebouças; Davis, Marcus; Paiva, Sandra Vieira; Bezerra, Luis Ernesto ArrudaIn their Letter “Brazil policy invites marine invasive species”, Miranda et al. [1] criticizes the Brazilian Federal Government plan to sink 1200 articial structures including ships. We endorse the view that such activities pose a high risk of spreading invasive species which include, among others, sun corals (Tubastraea spp.) [2, 3] along the Brazilian coastline. Moreover, in 2020 when diving on the Brazilian ...
Didemnidae (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) dos French Frigate Shoals
Paiva, Sandra VieiraPAIVA, S. V. Didemnidae (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) dos French Frigate Shoals. Fortaleza, 2015. 114 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências Marinhas Tropicais) - Instituto de Ciências do Mar, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, 2015.; Ascidians are a diverse class of benthic marine invertebrates, and about 20% of the described species belong to the family Didemnidae. This is due especially to the high diversity o...