Impact of oil spill and posterior clean-up activities on wrack-living talitrid amphipods on estuarine beaches
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https://doi.org/10.1590/S1679-87592009000400006Palabras clave:
Oil spill, Estuarine beach, Talitrid amphipods, Wrack clean-upResumen
A geomorphological and faunistic seasonal study of six estuarine beaches on Paranaguá Bay, Brazil, was abruptly interrupted when the Chilean ship "Vicuña" exploded and sank, spilling 291 tons of bunker fuel oil. The beaches sampled twice before the accident were affected by the oil spill deposition and the posterior clean-up activities. Neither drastic reduction in abundances nor occurrences of oil-covered individuals were registered. Significant variation in both amount of debris and talitrid amphipod densities was directly related to beach clean-up activities. A short (1-3 month) manual clean-up of polluted wrack resulted in an increase in talitrid abundances, with the local distribution expansion of one species, Platorchestia monodi, from three to six of the beaches sampled. The active migration and concentration of organisms at sites without wrack during cleaning activities and a massive and continuous recovery of new debris, characteristic of estuarine beaches, may contribute to the findings.Descargas
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2009-12-01
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Impact of oil spill and posterior clean-up activities on wrack-living talitrid amphipods on estuarine beaches. (2009). Brazilian Journal of Oceanography, 57(4), 315-323. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1679-87592009000400006