Environmental and Sanitary Conditions of Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro

O. Fistarol, Giovana; H. Coutinho, Felipe; Paula B. Moreira, Ana; Moreira Martins Venas, Tainá; Cánovas, Alba; E. M. de Paula, Sérgio; Coutinho, Ricardo; L. Moura, Rodrigo; Louis Valentin, Jean; Rivera Tenenbaum, Denise; Paranhos, Rodolfo; Valle, Rogério; Carolina Paulo Vicente, Ana; M. Amado Filho, Gilberto; Crespo Pereira, Renato; Henrique Krüger, Ricardo; Eduardo de Rezende, Carlos; C. Thompson, Cristiane; S. Salomon, Paulo; L. Thompson, Fabiano

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.01232

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Environmental and Sanitary Conditions of Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro

Published in Frontiers in Microbiology • Nov 20, 2015

Authors:

Giovana O. Fistarol

Felipe H. Coutinho

Ana Paula B. Moreira

Abstract

Guanabara Bay is the second largest bay in the coast of Brazil, with an area of 384 km(2). In its surroundings live circa 16 million inhabitants, out of which 6 million live in Rio de Janeiro city, one of the largest cities of the country, and the host of the 2016 Olympic Games. Anthropogenic interf...

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Bay

Eutrophication

Fish kill

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