Publications by authors named "Jorge Manuel Morales-Saldana"
Article Synopsis
- - The study highlights how environmental exposure to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can harm ecosystems and human health, indicating the need for a comprehensive assessment of this global issue.
- - Conducted across 258 rivers in 104 countries, the research found notably high levels of API contamination in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and South America, often linked to poor waste management and pharmaceutical production practices.
- - Over 25% of the sampling sites had API concentrations exceeding safe levels for aquatic life, raising concerns about environmental risks and the potential for increased antimicrobial resistance, which threatens progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Preexploitation shark baselines and the history of human impact on coral reef-associated shark communities in the Caribbean are tpoorly understood. We recovered shark dermal denticles from mid-Holocene (∼7 ky ago) and modern reef sediments in Bocas del Toro, Caribbean Panama, to reconstruct an empirical shark baseline before major human impact and to quantify how much the modern shark community in the region had shifted from this historical reference point. We found that denticle accumulation rates, a proxy for shark abundance, declined by 71% since the mid-Holocene.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMany Caribbean coral reefs are heavily degraded, yet their pre-human, natural states are often assumed or estimated using space-for-time substitution approaches. Here we use an 11-hectare suite of fossilised mid-Holocene (7.2-5.
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