Bibliometric analysis of peer-reviewed literature on the Patos Lagoon, southern Brazil

Abstract

Coastal lagoons provide several ecological resources and services with their functioning being mainly investigated in temperate areas. The Patos Lagoon, a subtropical system in southern Brazil, is one of the largest chocked coastal lagoons in the world. It provides habitat for numerous organisms and a range of ecosystem services. We performed a bibliometric analysis to identify and analyze the characteristics of studies carried out in the Patos Lagoon based on articles published in peer-reviewed journals indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded database of Clarivate Analytics Web of Science and Scopus database. We found 360 articles published between 1965 and 2019 in 150 journals. The number of articles has increased in the last decades mainly resulting from national collaborative efforts. Most articles were published by Brazilian research institutions. Most studies were performed in the Patos Lagoon estuary, a Longterm Ecological Research program´s study site. Our study thus highlights the importance of long-term projects to the comprehension of subtropical coastal lagoons functioning and indicates knowledge gaps that must be addressed in future studies.

Optimizing Optical Coastal Remote-Sensing Products: Recommendations for Regional Algorithm Calibration

“…The central region of Patos Lagoon represents a data gap in this study (Figure 1). The lack of information is one of the issues in the study area, with a large number of studies focusing on the estuarine region but only a few focusing on the limnic portion [59].…”

Composition and structure of the benthic diatom community from salt marshes of southern Brazil and their relationship to environmental variables

“…The salt marshes are located on the shores around the Patos Lagoon estuary (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) (31º50' 32º09'S, 52º00' 52º15'W) (Costa, 1998a). The Patos Lagoon estuary is composed of shallow bays (< 1.5 m depth) with subtidal and intertidal unvegetated and vegetated soft bottoms, and artificial hard substrates, as well as intermediate to deep areas and channels (Seeliger, 2001;Barbosa & Lanari, 2022) The region is classified as humid subtropical (Cfa) according to Köppen's climate classification (Alvares et al, 2013). The marshes present a spatial heterogeneity with mud planes, vegetated planes, channels, and tide pools, related to the topographic height and consequent time of submersion/exposure of the sediment (Costa, 1998a;Costa et al, 2003).…”