Mario Vinicius Condini, Helen Audrey Pichler, Ronaldo Ruy de Oliveira-Filho, André Pereira Cattani, Ryan Andrades, Ciro Colodetti Vilar, Jean-Christophe Joyeux, Marcelo Soeth, Juliana Beltramin De Biasi, Linda Eggertsen, Ricardo Dias, Carlos Werner Hackradt, Fabiana Cézar Félix-Hackradt, Julien Chiquieri, Alexandre Miranda Garcia, Maurício Hostim-Silva
When the Fundão dam collapsed in Brazil, 50 million m3 of iron ore tailings were released into the Doce river, resulting in the world's largest mining disaster. The contaminated mud was transported 668 km downstream of the Doce river and reached the Atlantic Ocean 17 days after the collapse. Seven months later, there was evidence that the tailings had reached the largest and richest coral reef formation in the South Atlantic Ocean. This study provides the first description of species composition, abundance, and diversity patterns of fish assemblages in estuaries, coastal areas, and coral reefs affected by the rupture of the mining dam in the Doce river...
February 10, 2022: Science of the Total Environment