Luciane Alves Maranho

TL;DR: In light of the possibility of bioaccumulation and harmful effects, the high concentrations of pharmaceuticals and cocaine found in this marine subtropical ecosystem are of environmental concern.

TL;DR: The results indicated the toxicity of pharmaceutical products and recommended the battery of biomarkers and the bioindicator specie H. diversicolor for the environmental quality assessment of sediment affected by pharmaceutical contamination.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how toxic compounds are mobilized during dredging operations in the channel of the Port of Santos, Brazil, in an attempt to assess changes in the bioavailability and toxicity of these contaminants.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the recent status of sediment quality from 5 zones of Port of Santos by applying a lines-of-evidence approach through integrating results of: (1) acute toxicity of whole sediment and chronic toxicity of liquid phases; (2) grain size, organic matter, organic carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, trace metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, linear alkylbenzenes and butyltins; (3) benthic community descriptors.

TL;DR: Investigation of biomarker responses of caged bivalves and descriptive parameters of macrobenthic community structure revealed that xenobiotics are inducing physiological stress, which may lead to changes of the benthiccommunity structure and deterioration of the ecological status over time.