Lohengrin D A Fernandes, Guilherme N Corte, Laura Moura, Carolina Reis, Thiago Matos, Danubia Moreno, Pedro Sant' Anna Cortez, Wanderson Fernandes de Carvalho, Wanda Monteiro-Ribas, José Eduardo A Gonçalves, Fernando Ribeiro, Fernanda Thomazelli, Nafisa Rizzini-Ansari, Eduardo Barros Fagundes Neto, Luiz Ricardo Gaelzer, Elizabeth de Souza Martins, Márcio Martins Lobão, Maria Helena Baeta-Neves, Ricardo Coutinho
Coastal zones support the most productive marine ecosystems, yet they are increasingly threatened by anthropogenic stressors such as dredging. In this study, we investigated how seasonal variation and dredging activities conducted during the construction of a harbor and submarine base (Sepetiba Bay, RJ, Brazil) affected the phytoplankton and zooplankton assemblages. The observed temporal variability at five different sites over 10 years revealed that dredging exceeds the expected influence of dry and rainy seasons on plankton abundance and diversity...
January 4, 2023: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment