Publications by authors named "Silvana Gomes Leite Siqueira"
Mar Pollut Bull
August 2019
Article Synopsis
- Researchers studied the brown alga Sargassum furcatum and three families of amphipods in the São Sebastião Channel, Brazil, to see if they could indicate petroleum hydrocarbon pollution.
- They found that while the natural substances of the algae and amphipods made up most of the n-alkanes present, some signs of petroleum were evident, including uncharacteristic n-alkane patterns.
- Total polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in samples ranged from 33.4 to 2010 ng/g, with low molecular weight PAHs like naphthalene predominating, suggesting the algae and amphipods are effective indicators of petroleum input, even at low concentrations.
