@article{Araujo_Loureiro_Ferreira_Lacerda_Fernandez_Machado_2015, title={SEAGRASS LOSSES CONCERNS: DOES SEDIMENT METAL POLLUTION MATTER?}, volume={28}, url={https://geobrasiliensis.org.br/geobrasiliensis/article/view/388}, abstractNote={<p>Seagrass losses result in the losing of well-known environmental services (e.g. nutrient retention), but a potential additional service loss is the trace metal retention by seagrass-colonized sediments. A preliminary study within a coastal lagoon in SE Brazil showed that upper layers of sediments colonized by the seagrass Ruppia maritima presented significantly higher reactive (HCl-extractable) concentrations of Fe, Mn, Cu and Zn than adjacent bare sediments. A lower sensitivity to R. maritima colonization was observed for Pb. Decreasing metal trapping capacity due to R. maritima removal deserves attention, since this practice occurs in the study area.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Geochimica Brasiliensis}, author={Araujo, Clarissa Lourenço de and Loureiro, Daniel Dias and Ferreira, Marcos Manoel and Lacerda, Luiz Drude de and Fernandez, Marcos Antonio and Machado, Wilson Tadheu Valle}, year={2015}, month={Feb.}, pages={131} }