Distribution, sources and consequences of nutrients, persistent organic pollutants, metals and microplastics in South American estuaries

M Barletta, ARA Lima, MF Costa - Science of the Total environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Estuarine pollution imposes rapid, increasing and lasting environmental modifications. In the
present review, especial attention is given to estuaries in South America (SA), where …

Anthropogenic, direct pressures on coastal wetlands

A Newton, J Icely, S Cristina, GME Perillo… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Coastal wetlands, such as saltmarshes and mangroves that fringe transitional waters,
deliver important ecosystem services that support human development. Coastal wetlands …

Systematic review of fish ecology and anthropogenic impacts in South American estuaries: setting priorities for ecosystem conservation

M Barletta, ARA Lima - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Research on estuarine ecology in South America (SA) increased quali-quantitatively since
the early 1980 in search of consistent recommendations for estuarine conservation. The …

Past and present conservation of south American estuaries

M Barletta, RCB Melo, AK Whitfield - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2023 - Elsevier
South America possesses a variety of estuaries along both tropical and temperate coastal
regions, with most of these systems facing uncontrolled urban settlement and industrial …

Local perceptions on social-ecological dynamics in Latin America in three community-based natural resource management systems

M del Mar Delgado-Serrano, E Oteros-Rozas… - Ecology and …, 2015 - JSTOR
Several examples of community-based natural resource management in Latin American
social-ecological systems exist in which communities control the management of common …

Water, sediments and fishes: First multi compartment assessment of metal pollution in a coastal environment from the SW Atlantic

NS La Colla, SE Botté, P Simonetti, VL Negrin… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
This is an integrated assessment of the distribution of Cd, Cr, Hg and Pb in dissolved water,
sediments and muscle fish tissues (Cynoscion guatucupa, Micropogonias furnieri, Mustelus …

Tracking polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in sediments and soils from the southwest of Buenos Aires Province …

N Tombesi, K Pozo, M Álvarez, P Přibylová… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
PCBs and PBDEs (7 and 10 congeners, respectively) were analyzed in four coastal surface
sediments collected from the northern shore of Bahía Blanca estuary and in nine soils from …

Community-based management fails to halt declines of bumphead parrotfish and humphead wrasse in Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands

RJ Hamilton, A Hughes, CJ Brown, T Leve, W Kama - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
Community-based fisheries management that integrates local knowledge and existing user
rights is often seen as a solution to the failures of top-down fisheries management in the …

Time-varying environmental control of phytoplankton in a changing estuarine system

MCL Abbate, JC Molinero, VA Guinder… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Estuaries are among the most valuable aquatic systems by their services to human welfare.
However, increasing human activities at the watershed along with the pressure of climate …

Characterization of an artisanal fishery in Argentina using the social-ecological systems framework

S London, ML Rojas, MMI Martin, F Scordo… - International Journal of …, 2017 - JSTOR
Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) studies how institutions (the rules of the game
of a society) determine the performance of a social-economic system. Elinor Ostrom extends …