A neonate of Carcharias taurus with mutilated fins was caught during commercial fishing with monofilament nylon bottom gillnets on the continental shelf of southern Brazil. The individual, a 100-cm long male, had the lobes ...

Pseudis minuta is abundant in a variety of aquatic environments of the Pampa domain. Therefore, it can be considered a good model for testing hypotheses on environmental heterogeneity and the influence of climate on the ...

Taim Ecological Reserve is located within the Taim Hydrological System and was created to protect a heterogeneous and productive landscape harboring exceptional biological diversity in southern Brazil. Using stable isotope ...

This is the first record in the wild of occurrence of four carp species (bighead Aristichthys nobilis (Richardson, 1845), common Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758, silver Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (Valenciennes, ...

A análise das pescarias em Passo de Torres foi baseada em entrevistas e acompanhamentos de desembarques realizados entre outubro de 2007 e dezembro de 2009. O município sedia um posto de abastecimento de combustível, uma ...

Some basic features concerning the subtidal circulation of Patos Lagoon were studied through time series analysis of wind, freshwater discharge, and water level records, as well as by means of experiments carried out with ...

O modelo numérico da Universidade de Princeton (POM) foi utilizado no estudo da circulação tridimensional forçada por ventos na Lagoa dos Patos. As elevações de nível geradas com uma grade maior, de menor resolução, foram ...

The region under study is regularly subject to the occurrence of storms associated with frontal systems and extratropical cyclones, since it is located near one of the cyclogenetic regions in South America. These storms ...

The necessity of improving our understanding of mixing, dispersion of salt, sediment, larvae and pollutants, and the increasing need of offering safe navigation conditions in the Patos Lagoon access channel highlighted the ...

The Patos Lagoon is a choked, microtidal coastal lagoon situated in southern Brazil between 30uS and 32uS. The response of the lagoon to tidal oscillations is studied through data analysis and numerical modeling experiments. ...

Major river systems discharging into continental shelf waters frequently form buoyant coastal currents that propagate along the continental shelf in the direction of coastal trapped wave propagation(with the coast on the ...

Aerial photography time series of six ocean beaches (Cassino, Mar Grosso, Tramandaí, Imbé, Praia Grande and Passo de Torres beaches) adjacent to lagoonal and river inlets of southern Brazil were analyzed in order to verify ...

Subsurface structures mapped by the Sparker R acoustic system on the inner continental shelf of Rio Grande do Sul State, in southern Brazil were interpreted as paleochannels which developed over a coastal plain environment ...

The Brazilian flounder, Paralichthys orbignyanus, is a promising candidate for aquaculture, especially due to the euryhalinity demonstrated experimentally for large juveniles (3 g) and sub-adults. Flounder are observed in ...

The Southern Brazilian Shelf (SBS) is a region influenced by freshwater, and the evolution of stratification can present important ecological consequences in this area. The aim of this paper was to investigate the ...

Extensive mud deposits superimposed on the predominantly sandy inner continental shelf adjacent tothe Patos Lagoon estuary, indicates that the Lagoon is a potential source of fine sediments to the coastal sedimentary system. ...

Devido à falta de estruturas rígidas para determinação de idade em crustáceos, métodos que se baseiam na determinação de idade através da distribuição da freqüência de comprimentos são comumente utilizados. Neste trabalho, ...

Callinectes danae Smith, 1869 e C. ornatus Ordway, 1863 constituem uma parcela importante da produção pesqueira na Baía de Guanabara. Ambas espécies compõem uma fração significativa da fauna-acompanhante sendo exaustivamente ...

This study is a preliminary investigation into the influence of the installation of energy converters in the Southern Brazilian Shelf (SBS) and possible modifications in the natural hydrodynamic and morphodynamic processes. ...

Southampton Water, an estuary on the south coast of England, has been the focus of a number of studies to determine the seasonality and productivity of its pelagic community. Although recognized as important in previous ...