Publications

biomonitoring of trace metal contamination in the potengi estuary, natal (brazil), using the oyster crassostrea rhizophorae, a local food source.	the oyster crassostrea rhizophorae was collected in september 1997 from 10 stations along the potengi estuary, natal, brazil, a mangrove-lined estuary receiving anthropogenic inputs of trace metals. c. rhizophorae is a net accumulator of trace metals and can be used as a biomonitor, the accumulated soft tissue concentrations representing integrated records of bioavailable metal fractions over the life of the oyster. significant differences in oyster accumulated concentrations (and hence bioavail ...	2001	11791836
comparative biomonitors of coastal trace metal contamination in tropical south america (n. brazil).	samples of 5 bivalve molluscs (crassostrea rhizophorae, mytella charruana, anomalocardia brasiliana, anadara ovalis, phacoides pectinata), 2 barnacles (fistulobalanus citerosum, balanus amphitrite) and leaves of the mangrove tree rhizophora mangle were collected from up to 11 sites in two estuaries in natal, brazil--the comparatively contaminated potengi estuary and the comparatively uncontaminated curimataú estuary. specimens were analysed for the trace metals zn, cu, cd, fe, mn and ni, and a c ...	2006	16574213