Scientific studies have demonstrated the usefulness of benthic foraminifera as bioindicators
to assess the health of marine, coastal, and transitional ecosystems. Similar to macrofauna …

The ecological quality status of the NE region of the Guanabara Bay (SE Brazil), one of the
most important Brazilian embayments, is evaluated. For this purpose, sediment samples …

Multiproxy approach based on textural, mineralogical, geochemical, and microfaunal
analyses on a 176-cm-long core (SP8) has been applied to reconstruct the Holocene …

Marine transitional environments play an important role in human sustainability. Around
these ecosystems, coastal lagoons are subject to high anthropogenic pressure from …

Superficial sediment samples of the Santos Estuary (SE Brazil) were analyzed for benthic
foraminifera (dead fauna), aliphatic hydrocarbons (AHs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons …

Living benthic foraminifera have been widely used as ecological indicators in coastal
ecosystems. There is, however, a lack of studies on their response to trace element pollution …

Trace metal background levels determination is essential for the proper assessment of the
contamination status of a region. This study aims to integrate geochemical and statistical …

The coastal areas, the most populated regions in the world, are those which have
undergone the greatest human influence. In Brazilian southeastern coast, the region around …

This paper examines the palaeoenvironmental conditions of a Late Pleistocene marine unit
assigned to the Puente de Pascua Formation (MIS 5e), Buenos Aires, Argentina. For this …

In this investigation, we carried out a Mid-Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction
based on fossilized benthic foraminifera, retrieved from sedimentary deposits located in …