Impact on a fish assemblage of the maintenance dredging of a navigation channel in a tropical coastal ecosystem

Impact on a fish assemblage of the maintenance dredging of a navigation channel in a tropical coastal ecosystem

Dredging and dredge-spoil disposal are among the major problems in coastal management. Many of the scientific contributions concerning the impacts of this practice are based on the study of sessile organisms and subtropical environments. We evaluated changes in the composition and abundance of a fis...

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Main Authors: Demarques Ribeiro da Silva Junior, Sérgio Ricardo Santos, Marcelo Travassos, Marcelo Vianna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2012-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Oceanography
Subjects:
Dragagem
Ambientes estuarinos
Descarte de sedimento
Impactos marinhos
Dredging
Coastal works
Estuarine environments
Sediment disposal
Marine impacts
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