Barbara Ramos Pinheiro

Barbara Ramos Pinheiro
Federal University of Alagoas · Institute of Biological Sciences and Health (ICBS)

PhD in Oceanography

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January 2018 - present
Federal University of Alagoas
Position
  • PostDoc Position
February 2012 - August 2016
Federal University of Pernambuco
Position
  • PhD

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Publications (20)
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Small metazoans, especially harpacticoid copepods, are an important component in the benthic food webs of benthic environments. However, studies on the effects of elevated CO 2 and temperature on these animals are scarce and those that do exist focus mainly on the individual species level. A laboratory experiment was conducted to evaluate the impac...
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The Sr/Ca ratio in coral skeletons is an important proxy for the reconstruction of sea surface temperatures (SST) of the environment and helps our knowledge about SST variability in the tropics. In the western tropical South Atlantic where the species Montastraea cavernosa is one of the most important reef-builders, only a few species have been eva...
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Social media data is a rich source of information to assess human activities in catastrophic events. Here, we use social media data to understand how the 2019 Brazilian oil spill influenced social attitudes. Data were collected from the globally popular Instagram platform between August 1, 2019 and March 1, 2020. First, we manually identified the 5...
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In August 2019, the Northeast coast of Brazil was impacted by an extensive oil spill, with immediate effects on marine and coastal ecosystems and signifi cant impacts on tourism and food security. The human dimension of those impacts also includes the loss of cultural ecosystem services (CES); the non-material benefi ts stemming from strongly roote...
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In the tropical Atlantic Ocean, the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is an important climate feature controlled by the interhemispheric sea surface temperature (SST) gradient, and greatly influences rainfall patterns over the adjacent continents. To better understand ITCZ dynamics in the context of past and future climate change, long-term oce...
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Continental runoff is an important source of solutes and nutrients to coastal coral reefs. Nevertheless, they can also act as local stressors due to high coastal urbanization and associated release of untreated effluents. Here we aimed to evaluate qualitatively the effects of seasonality over reefs from the Costa dos Corais Marine Protected Area (B...
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Protected areas (PAs) are the main spatial policy instrument for conserving biodiversity and have expanded dramatically in the last 30 years. This expansion has not been matched by a corresponding increase in financial investment, leaving many parks without sufficient resources for essential management actions. Moreover, in some parts of the world...
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Interactions with nature promote key human health benefits and help inform sound conservation actions. During the COVID-19 lockdowns such interactions were reduced and, in many cases, limited to urban nature. Nevertheless, home-confinement regulations may have provided the impetus for people to reconnect with urban wildlife –through their windows,...
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Abstract: Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) generates unique data sets that have the potential to identify and quantify trends in ecological processes that may be difficult to detect at lower temporal resolutions. Even though many LTER sites are within protected areas, they do not necessarily produce data that are well aligned with the objective...
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The susceptibility of coastal environments to shifts in the biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nutrients driven by anthropogenic pressure and climate change is a real challenge for the scientific community. This paper evaluated the effects of an extreme rainfall event over the nutrients and carbonate parameters in two polluted tropical estuaries....
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Coral reefs are one of the most vulnerable ecosystems to ocean warming and acidification, and it is important to determine the role of reef building species in this environment in order to obtain insight into their susceptibility to expected impacts of global changes. Aspects of the life history of a coral population, such as reproduction, growth a...
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Changes in marine communities in response to elevated CO2 have been reported but information on how representatives of the benthic lower trophic levels will be impacted remains scarce. A laboratory experiment was conducted to evaluate the impact of different climate change scenarios on a coral reef meiofauna community. Samples of the meiofauna comm...
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Abiotic parameters and benthic coverage were determined in shallow habitats at Rocas Atoll. It was found daily and seasonal variations on seawater characteristics related to tides, pluviometry, daily solar cycle, and organisms’ metabolism. Habitats with high coverage of carbonatic organisms were associated with the alkalinity of seawater, whereas h...
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An international multi-disciplinary group of 24 researchers met to discuss ocean acidification (OA) during the Brazilian OA Network/Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (BrOA/SOLAS) Workshop. Fifteen members of the BrOA Network ( www.broa.furg.br ) authored this review. The group concluded that identifying and evaluating the regional effects of OA...
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More than 430 C and O isotope analyses were carried out on carbonates from six coral species collected during June 1995, July 1998 and February 1999 at Rocas atoll, offshore northeastern Brazil: Siderastrea stellata Verrill 1868, Porites branneri Rathbum 1887, Porites astreoides Lamarck 1816, Mussismilia hispida Verrill 1902, Madracis decactis Lyma...

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