Physical oceanography of the SW Atlantic Shelf: a review

AR Piola, ED Palma, AA Bianchi, BM Castro… - Plankton ecology of the …, 2018 - Springer
The continental shelf of the western South Atlantic is characterized by three regions subject
to distinct oceanographic regimes. The wide subantarctic shelf, south of approximately 35° …

Harnessing scientific and local knowledge to face climate change in small-scale fisheries

I Gianelli, L Ortega, J Pittman, M Vasconcellos… - Global Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Small-scale fisheries in developing regions are particularly vulnerable to climate change,
but the assessment of climate-induced changes and impacts are often hampered by the data …

The Latin America and Caribbean HAB status report based on OBIS and HAEDAT maps and databases

I Sunesen, SM Méndez, JE Mancera-Pineda… - Harmful Algae, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Harmful Algae Blooms (HAB) have been documented for at least fifty years in Latin
America and the Caribbean (LAC), however, their impacts at social, ecological and …

Marine heatwaves, sewage and eutrophication combine to trigger deoxygenation and biodiversity loss: A SW Atlantic case study

KM Brauko, A Cabral, NV Costa, J Hayden… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are a major concern worldwide due to their increasing impacts in
recent years, and these extreme events may trigger deoxygenation of coastal waters …

Multi-species okadaic acid contamination and human poisoning during a massive bloom of Dinophysis acuminata complex in southern Brazil

LL Mafra Jr, PKW Nolli, LE Mota, C Domit, M Soeth… - Harmful Algae, 2019 - Elsevier
On June 2016, a major bloom of Dinophysis acuminata complex was noticed over the coast
of Paraná State (PR), southern Brazil, an area unprotected by any official monitoring …

Shelf Water Export at the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence Evidenced From Combined in situ and Satellite Observations

G Manta, S Speich, M Barreiro, R Trinchin… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Brazil-Malvinas Confluence (BMC) is the region where opposing and intense western
boundary currents meet along the Southwestern Atlantic slope at about 38° S, generating …

Water masses seasonality and meteorological patterns drive the biogeochemical processes of a subtropical and urbanized watershed-bay-shelf continuum

A Cabral, CHC Bonetti, LHP Garbossa… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding the different scales of temporal variability is crucial to improve the knowledge
of the biogeochemical processes in the land-ocean interface. In this study, we evaluated the …

Interannual variability in mesoscale distribution of Dinophysis acuminata and D. acuta in Northwestern Patagonian fjords

ÁM Baldrich, C Molinet, B Reguera… - Harmful Algae, 2022 - Elsevier
Dinophysis acuminata and D. acuta, which produce diarrheogenic toxins and pectenotoxins
in southern Chile, display site-specific differences in interannual variability (2006–2018) in …

Revisiting the taxonomy of the “Dinophysis acuminata complex''(Dinophyta)'

JH Park, M Kim, HJ Jeong, MG Park - Harmful Algae, 2019 - Elsevier
Marine dinoflagellates of the genus Dinophysis are well known for producing diarrhetic
shellfish poisoning (DSP) toxins and/or pectenotoxins which have a significant impact on …

Local and meso-scale pressures in the eutrophication process of a coastal subtropical system: Challenges for effective management

AL Fonseca, A Newton, A Cabral - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Natural and anthropogenic pressures drive coastal eutrophication worldwide, depending on
the system's physical and biogeochemical dynamics in multiple spatial and temporal scales …