Trace metals enrichment and potential ecological risk in sediments of the Sepetiba Bay (Rio de Janeiro, SE Brazil).


Journal

Marine pollution bulletin
ISSN: 1879-3363
Titre abrégé: Mar Pollut Bull
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0260231

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Apr 2022
Historique:
received: 11 07 2021
revised: 17 02 2022
accepted: 18 02 2022
pubmed: 13 3 2022
medline: 5 4 2022
entrez: 12 3 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The Sepetiba Bay (SB; SE Brazil) has been severely affected by growing of urbanization and industrial activity. This work aims to analyze the evolution of contamination by metals of sediments in SB. The results show a marked increasing trend in the concentrations of potentially toxic elements (PTEs), which is consistent with the rapid populational and industrial growth, mostly since 1970 CE. The remobilization and redistribution of sediments by currents have contributed to the dispersion of metals from the main source of pollutants to relatively distant regions. "Moderately to strongly polluted" sediments are also recorded in some sites in deeper sedimentary layers (namely in preindustrial periods), probably due to lithologic sources of the sediments. The concentrations of PTEs in SB are relatively high when compared with those found globally and in other Brazilian water bodies. Samples of high-resolution sediment cores confirmed that potential ecological risk to the coastal system is influenced not only through human actions but also by natural causes.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35278908
pii: S0025-326X(22)00167-9
doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113485
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Metals, Heavy 0
Water Pollutants, Chemical 0

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

113485

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Layla Cristine da Silva (LC)

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Faculdade de Geologia, Av. São Francisco Xavier, 24, sala 2020A, Maracanã, 20550-013 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Maria Virginia Alves Martins (MVA)

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Faculdade de Geologia, Av. São Francisco Xavier, 24, sala 2020A, Maracanã, 20550-013 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Universidade de Aveiro, GeoBioTec, Departamento de Geociências, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal. Electronic address: virginia.martins@ua.pt.

Wellen Fernanda Louzada Castelo (WFL)

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Faculdade de Geologia, Av. São Francisco Xavier, 24, sala 2020A, Maracanã, 20550-013 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Murilo Barros Saibro (MB)

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Faculdade de Geologia, Av. São Francisco Xavier, 24, sala 2020A, Maracanã, 20550-013 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Dandara Rangel (D)

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Faculdade de Oceanografia, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, 4° andar, Bloco E, sala 4018, CEP 20550-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Egberto Pereira (E)

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Faculdade de Geologia, Av. São Francisco Xavier, 24, sala 2020A, Maracanã, 20550-013 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Electronic address: egberto@uerj.br.

Sergio Bergamaschi (S)

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Faculdade de Geologia, Av. São Francisco Xavier, 24, sala 2020A, Maracanã, 20550-013 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Silvia Helena Mello E Sousa (SHME)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo (IOUSP), Pça. Do Oceanográfico, 191, Butantã, São Paulo, Brazil.

Josefa Varela (J)

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Faculdade de Oceanografia, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, 4° andar, Bloco E, sala 4018, CEP 20550-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Lazaro Laut (L)

Laboratório de Micropaleontologia - LabMicro, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Av. Pasteur, 436, Urca, CEP 22290-240 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Fabrizio Frontalini (F)

Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", 61029 Urbino, Italy.

Hernani Chaves (H)

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Faculdade de Geologia, Av. São Francisco Xavier, 24, sala 2020A, Maracanã, 20550-013 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

António Tadeu Reis (AT)

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Faculdade de Oceanografia, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, 4° andar, Bloco E, sala 4018, CEP 20550-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Orangel Aguilera (O)

Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Biologia Marinha, Laboratorio de Paleoecologia e Mudanças Globais Campus de Gragoatá, Bloco M, CEP: 24210-200 Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Noureddine Zaaboub (N)

Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer, Department of Marine Science, Tunis, Tunisia.

Eldhose Cheriyan (E)

Department of Chemical Oceanography, School of Marine Sciences, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin 682016, Kerala, India.

Mauro César Geraldes (MC)

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Faculdade de Geologia, Av. São Francisco Xavier, 24, sala 2020A, Maracanã, 20550-013 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Articles similaires

[Redispensing of expensive oral anticancer medicines: a practical application].

Lisanne N van Merendonk, Kübra Akgöl, Bastiaan Nuijen
1.00
Humans Antineoplastic Agents Administration, Oral Drug Costs Counterfeit Drugs

Smoking Cessation and Incident Cardiovascular Disease.

Jun Hwan Cho, Seung Yong Shin, Hoseob Kim et al.
1.00
Humans Male Smoking Cessation Cardiovascular Diseases Female
Humans United States Aged Cross-Sectional Studies Medicare Part C
1.00
Humans Yoga Low Back Pain Female Male

Classifications MeSH