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Research article
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29 Aug 2025
Research article |
| 29 Aug 2025
| 29 Aug 2025
Towards a more integrative approach for environmental decision-making in Brazilian transitional waters: improving biomonitoring surveys with a benthic foraminiferal biotic index
Vincent M. P. Bouchet
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Univ. Lille, CNRS, IRD, Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, Station Marine de Wimereux, 59000 Lille, France
Silvia Helena de Mello e Sousa
Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo (IOUSP), Pça. do Oceanográfico, 191, Butantã, São Paulo, 05508 120, Brazil
Carla Bonetti
Coordenadoria de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Leticia Burone
Cincytema, Sección Oceanología, Instituto de Ecología y Ciencias Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Iguá 4225, Montevideo 11400, Uruguay
Pierre Belart
Departamento de Ciências Naturais, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Wania Duleba
Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH), Rua Arlindo Béttio, 1000 – Ermelino Matarazzo, São Paulo – SP, 03828-000, Brazil
Fabio Francescangeli
Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Chemin Du Musée 6, 1700 Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland
Fabrizio Frontalini
Department of Pure and Applied Sciences (DiSPeA), University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Campus Scientifico Enrico Mattei, Località Crocicchia, 61029 Urbino, Italy
Lazaro Laut
Departamento de Ciências Naturais, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Débora S. Raposo
German Federation for Biological Data – GFBio e.V., Mary-Somerville-Strasse 2–4, 28359 Bremen, Germany
André R. Rodrigues
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, UFES, Vitória, ES, Brazil
Sibelle Trevisan Disaró
Universidade Federal do Paraná, Museu de Ciências Naturais, Laboratório de Foraminíferos e Micropaleontologia Ambiental, Av. Cel. Francisco H. Dos Santos, 100 – Jardim Américas, CEP 81530-000, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Daniel Vicente Pupo
Universidade Federal do Paraná, Museu de Ciências Naturais, Laboratório de Foraminíferos e Micropaleontologia Ambiental, Av. Cel. Francisco H. Dos Santos, 100 – Jardim Américas, CEP 81530-000, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Fabrício Leandro Damasceno
Faculdade de Geologia, Departamento de Paleontologia e Estratigrafia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), R. São Francisco Xavier,524 – Lab 4037F – Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro 20550-900, Brazil
Jean-Charles Pavard
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Univ. Lille, CNRS, IRD, Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, Station Marine de Wimereux, 59000 Lille, France
Department of Marine Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Maria Virgínia Alves Martins
Faculdade de Geologia, Departamento de Paleontologia e Estratigrafia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), R. São Francisco Xavier,524 – Lab 4037F – Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro 20550-900, Brazil
Department of Geosciences, Aveiro University, GeoBioTec, Campus de Santiago, 3810-197 Aveiro, Portugal
Data sets
Living foraminifera relative abundances and total organic carbon in Brazilian transitional waters V. M. P. Bouchet et al. https://doi.org/10.17632/nw4xd5ymgd.1
Short summary
This study evaluates benthic foraminifera as indicators of environmental health in Brazil’s coastal waters and tests Foram-AMBI using a regional species list and criteria for ecological quality status (EcoQS). A total of 95 species were classified into five groups based on their response to total organic carbon. Data from Sepetiba Bay and Guanabara Bay validated these groups, showing that Foram-AMBI accurately reflects ecological conditions. The study highlights the importance of regional species lists for biomonitoring.
This study evaluates benthic foraminifera as indicators of environmental health in Brazil’s...
