Decadal Changes in a Polluted Bay As Seen from Its Seaweed Flora: The Case of Santos Bay in Brazil

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Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 403-405

  Oliveira, Eurico C ^a   Qi, Yaobin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BROWN ALGA; MARINE POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; SEAWEED; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BRAZIL; SANTOS; SAO PAULO STATE;

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0142027771     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-32.6.403     Document Type: Article

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26. We acknowledge FAPESP (grant 95/07039-0) and CNPq (E.C. Oliveira, proc. 301436/ 85-1). Mariana C. Oliveira and Pedro Zagato, made valuable suggestions to improve the manuscript and Murray T. Brown revised the first English version of the manuscript.
27. First submitted 10 Oct. 2002. Revised version received 22 Jan. 2003. Accepted for publication 29 Jan. 2003.