Marine Environment and Public Health

Moura, Jailson Fulgêncio de; Roges, Emily Moraes; Souza, Roberta Laine de; Siciliano, Salvatore; Rodrigues, Dália dos Prazeres

doi:10.5772/48412

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“…Ocean health is vital for the maintenance of the planet, and it is important to note that public health depends on the health of these ecosystems (Moura et al 2012). Environmental changes caused by anthropogenic activities, such as effluent discharges, and climatic changes, including changes in ocean surface temperature, can alter the marine environment and give rise to the development of new pathogens that may affect environmental, animal and human health (Lafferty et al 2004).…”

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“…Several studies call attention to the importance of microbiological monitoring of marine biota with the purpose of preventing outbreaks of human diseases related to fish consumption and the use of recreational waters (Moura et al 2012;Cardoso et al 2014). Birds, more specifically those that inhabit aquatic environments, have the ability to spread pathogenic bacteria to humans through faeces.…”

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A comprehensive survey of Aeromonas sp. and Vibrio sp. in seabirds from southeastern Brazil: outcomes for public health

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“…Beached bird surveys have been widely used to monitor the impact of oil pollution in the oceans since the beginning of the twentieth century [8–10]. This scientific approach is also useful to investigate a number of threats to seabirds across the world’s oceans [11], such as storms and adverse weather conditions [12], lack of food under decreased productivity conditions [7], bycatch [13, 14], entanglements and ingestion of debris [15, 16], diseases [17] and contamination by chemical pollutants [18, 19]. …”

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Environmental Predictors of Seabird Wrecks in a Tropical Coastal Area

2016

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Beached bird surveys have been widely used to monitor the impact of oil pollution in the oceans. However, separating the combined effects of oil pollution, environmental variables and methodological aspects of beach monitoring on seabird stranding patterns is a challenging task. The effects of a comprehensive set of oceanographic and climatic variables and oil pollution on seabird strandings in a tropical area of Brazil were investigated herein, using two robust and innovative methods: Generalized Linear Mixed Models and Structural Equation Modeling. We assessed strandings of four resident seabird species along 480 km of beaches divided into 11 sampling areas, between November 2010 and September 2013. We found that increasing the distance from the nearest breeding island reduce the seabird stranding events. Storm activity and biological productivity were the most important factors affecting the stranding events of brown boobies Sula leucogaster, Cabot’s terns Thalasseus acuflavidus and kelp gulls Larus dominicanus. These species are also indirectly affected by warm tropical waters, which reduce chlorophyll-a concentrations. Beach surveys are, thus, useful to investigate the mortality rates of resident species near breeding sites, where individuals are more abundant and exposed to local factors associated with at-sea mortality. In contrast, conservation actions and monitoring programs for far-ranging seabird species are needed in more distant foraging areas. Furthermore, beach monitoring programs investigating the impact of oil pollution on seabirds need to account for the effects of environmental factors on stranding patterns. The present study also demonstrated that seabirds inhabiting tropical coastal waters are sensitive to climate conditions such as adverse weather, which are expected to increase in frequency and intensity in next decades.

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“…The few descriptive studies published addressed essentially public health and environment issues (e.g. Moura et al 2012).…”

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First documented record of the Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813 (Aves: Sternidae) in southeast Brazil

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2013

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Abstract:We report the first record of Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813 on the southeastern Brazilian coast. During monthly bird surveys in the northern Rio de Janeiro State, on January 2012 we recovered a tern banded in Massachusetts, USA. The present record stretches the S. dougallii southernmost geographic distribution in Brazil (Bahia state) by about 600 km. It is difficult to evaluate this species' regional status due to the absence of continuous sampling efforts.

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Marine Environment and Public Health

Cited by 9 publications

References 61 publications

A comprehensive survey of Aeromonas sp. and Vibrio sp. in seabirds from southeastern Brazil: outcomes for public health

A comprehensive survey of Aeromonas sp. and Vibrio sp. in seabirds from southeastern Brazil: outcomes for public health

Environmental Predictors of Seabird Wrecks in a Tropical Coastal Area

First documented record of the Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813 (Aves: Sternidae) in southeast Brazil

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