Assemblage descriptors have been broadly used to assess benthic health and understand
ecosystems functioning. In Guanabara Bay, a highly impacted estuary in Brazil, studies have …

The aim of the present study was to investigate the ecological quality of tropical estuaries on
the northeastern coast of Brazil using the AMBI. Macrofauna classification based on …

Abstract Changes in species composition and relative abundance caused by pollution might
have an impact on the community dynamics and ecosystem functioning. Macrobenthos are …

The present study focused on the use of benthic invertebrate communities to assess the
ecological quality of a Portuguese estuary characterized by strong seasonal changes and …

We assessed how multi-and univariate models reflect marine environmental health based
on macrobenthic community responses to three environmental stressor categories …

Benthic macroinvertebrates communities are the most consistently emphasized biotic
component of aquatic ecosystems and are one of the biological indicators required for …

We analyzed the effects of sewage discharge on a subtropical estuary by comparing the
functional diversity of intertidal macroinvertebrate assemblages in contaminated with non …

The state of Minas Gerais still has some nearly pristine aquatic ecosystems, thus
representing strategic aquatic resources for Brazil. Rivers and creeks of Serra do Cipó (19° …

This chapter examines the estuaries within the Southern Brazilian Marine Ecoregion (SBE),
a coastline of some 850 km in the tropical-temperate transition zone of the extreme southern …

This study assessed the functional diversity (FD) of copepod communities along the
environmental gradient of two tropical estuaries with different intensities of human impact …