Renato Crespo Pereira

TL;DR: An extensive carbonate system off the Amazon mouth, underneath the river plume, is presented, providing several insights about the responses of tropical reefs to suboptimal and marginal reef-building conditions, which are accelerating worldwide due to global changes.

TL;DR: An overview of the current environmental and sanitary conditions of Guanabara Bay is presented, a consequence of all these decades of impacts, focusing on microbial communities, how they may affect higher trophic levels of the aquatic community and also human health.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the broad antifouling properties of the crude extract of L. obtusa inhibit the settlement of fouling as well as hinder the development of settled fouling species, thereby reducing the richness of species.

TL;DR: Three substances of Dictyota pfaffii afforded the rare dolabellane diterpene 10,18-diacetoxy-8-hydroxy-2, 6-dolABelladiene and the new 10-acetoxy-7,8-di-Hydroxy- 2,6-Dolablladiene, which showed strong anti-HSV-1 activity in vitro but only 3 inhibited the reverse transcriptase enzyme of HIV-

TL;DR: Direct protection against two herbivore species and indirect protection against herbivory by fouling inibition constitute evidence that the major natural product from Brazilian L. obtusa plays multiple environmental roles, thereby increasing the adaptive value of these metabolites.