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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety | 2003

Assessing pollution in coastal ecosystems: a preliminary survey using the micronucleus test in the mussel Mytilus edulis

Jorge I. Izquierdo; Gonzalo Machado; Fernando Ayllon; Verónica L. D’Amico; Luis Oscar Bala; Eduardo Alberto Vallarino; Rodolfo Elías; Eva Garcia-Vazquez

Mussels Mytilus edulis were sampled at increasing distances from urban effluents in two very different locations, Gijon (northern Spain, Europe, 43 degrees N) and Puerto Madryn (Argentina, South America, 43 degrees S), and from an industry effluent in Puerto Madryn. The micronucleus test was performed on branchial cells. For the three situations, a statistically significant negative association was found between the distance of sampling site from the effluent and the mean number of micronuclei per 1000 cell counts, in a range of distances as short as 300m. The micronucleus test in Mytilidae, here revealed to be sensitive enough to monitor urban pollution, is proposed for routine surveys of pollution as a bioindicator of choice for coastal ecosystems.


Revista De Biologia Marina Y Oceanografia | 2002

The community-level response to sewage impact in intertidal mytilid beds of the Southwestern Atlantic, and the use of the Shannon index to assess pollution

Eduardo Alberto Vallarino; María S. Rivero; María Carola Gravina; Rodolfo Elías

Se realizo un estudio de la comunidad intermareal de mitilidos del Atlantico sudoccidental con el objetivo de caracterizar su respuesta a la descarga de un efluente cloacal intermareal. Cuatro estaciones fueron muestreadas en el area impactada, mas un sitio Control. Peso total y contenido organico fueron medidos del sedimento retenido entre los bivalvos, al igual que variables de calidad del agua. Toda la macrofauna fue contada, y el numero de especies, diversidad y equitatividad fueron calculadas. El mitilido Brachidontes rodriguezi incrementa su densidad en forma inversa a la distancia al efluente. Los poliquetos Capitella capitata y Boccardia polybranchia caracterizan las estaciones mas impactadas, mientras que los crustaceos (Corophium insidiosum, Jassa falcata y Caprella sp.) fueron dominantes a distancias intermedias. Tanto los datos ambientales como los biologicos muestran diferencias significativas entre estaciones. La estacion mas impactada tiene el mas bajo numero de especies, aunque los mas altos valores de diversidad y equitatividad, mientras que el sitio Control tiene los mas bajos. En este estudio se rechaza el uso de indices univariantes para la determinacion de contaminacion organica por efluentes cloacales en esta comunidad. La mejor herramienta de analisis resulto ser la presencia de especies indicadoras y la proporcion de mitilidos.


Iheringia Serie Zoologia | 2003

Sewage impact on the composition and distribution of Polychaeta associated to intertidal mussel beds of the Mar del Plata rocky shore, Argentina

Rodolfo Elías; María S. Rivero; Eduardo Alberto Vallarino

The polychaete composition and distribution within mussel beds were studied in order to assess organic pollution due to domestic sewage in a rocky shore of Mar del Plata (Argentina) during 1997. Four stations and a control site were randomly sampled around the local effluent. Quantitative data on polychaetes, as well as sediment accumulated among mussels and its organic carbon content were measured. Polychaete distribution patterns are related to the organic matter gradient, being Capitella cf. capitata, Neanthes succinea (Frey & Leuckart, 1847) and Boccardia polybranchia (Haswell, 1885) the dominant indicator species close to the effluent. At medial distances, the cirratulids Caulleriella alata (Southern, 1914) and Cirratulus cirratus (Muller, 1776) are very important in abundance. The syllids Syllis prolixa Ehlers, 1901 and S. gracilis Grube, 1840 are distributed along the study area, but dominate at the medial stations and at the control site. The orbiniid Protoariciella uncinata Hartmann-Schroder, 1962 is subdominant at the control station.


Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2013

Macrobenthos and multi-molecular markers as indicators of environmental contamination in a South American port (Mar del Plata, Southwest Atlantic).

Mariano J. Albano; Claudia S. Bremec; Rodolfo Elías; César C. Martins; Natalia Venturini; Pablo Muniz; Silvia Rivero; Eduardo Alberto Vallarino; Sandra Obenat

We evaluated benthic habitat quality along a presumed contamination gradient in the Mar del Plata port (Southwestern Atlantic) by coupling biological and chemical proxies in a multidisciplinary approach. Organic matter and photosynthetic pigment contents were higher in silty-clay bottoms of the inner port sites. Levels of all fecal steroids decreased from the inner sites to the port inlet. High concentrations of coprostanol in the inner sites seemed to derive from a permanent population of sea lions rather than from sewage outfalls due to coprostanol/epicoprostanol ratio (IV) values <2.5. PAHs levels were also higher in the inner sector, related to both biomass combustion and petroleum combustion associated to local marine traffic. High disturbance and low ecological status were reflected in low benthic diversity and high AMBI values in the inner sites.


Revista Chilena de Historia Natural | 2001

Polychaetes from a southwestern shallow shelf Atlantic area (Argentina, 38 S) affected by sewage discharge

Rodolfo Elías; Claudia Bremec; Eduardo Alberto Vallarino

Un programa de muestreo bentonico fue llevado a cabo en la ciudad de Mar del Plata con el fin de examinar la composicion y distribucion de los poliquetos infaunales de los sustratos submareales afectados por el vertido cloacal. Los fondos arenosos muestran heterogeneidad en su composicion de sedimentos y un bajo contenido de materia organica. Se identifico un total de 33 especies de poliquetos en el rango de profundidades comprendido entre 6,5 y 12,5 m. En este trabajo se presenta una comparacion de estos datos con datos de 30 anos atras provenientes de fondos de mas de 12 m de profundidad. El patron de distribucion de los poliquetos se relaciona tanto con el tipo sedimentario como con el contenido de materia organica. Owenia fusiformis Delle Chiaje fue la especie dominante en las estaciones mas cercanas al efluente. Dicha area estuvo caracterizada por la presencia de poliquetos de tamano pequeno. Una explicacion probable para la composicion faunistica en estos ambientes bentonicos cercanos a descargas es que los procesos hidrodinamicos perturban frecuentemente el area, y la fauna bentonica se encontraria permanentemente en un estado de desarrollo inicial. El efecto del efluente cloacal parece estar limitado al area submareal somera alrededor de la descarga


Investigaciones Marinas | 2001

The introduced barnacle Balanus glandula (Darwin) in the Mar del Plata port as a structuring species in the intertidal community

Rodolfo Elías; Eduardo Alberto Vallarino

The paper deals with the distribution pattern and population dynamics of the introduced barnacle Balanus glandula in the intertidal areas of Mar del Plata port. The reproductive cycle of this barnacle is discussed as a community structuring force. Replicated areas in both the high intertidal and the upper mid intertidal zones were monthly denuded. The recruitment, cumulative settlement, mortality and growth of B. glandula were recorded, as well as the succession pattern of the associated fauna. First settlement of B. glandula occurred in winter (July). Succession begins with a film of microorganisms followed by green algae (Ulva lactuca and Enteromorpha spp.) which dominate up to a final stage of B. glandula dominated community is reached all along the intertidal. B. glandula densities were significantly higher in the mid intertidal than in the high intertidal (19600 and 13600 ind. m- 2 , respectively). Annual mean mortality was high in the port (up to 62%) but heavy settlement allowed a final density 4 times greater than in the upper mid intertidal of exposed rocky shores, and twice the greatest density reached in the Northern Hemisphere. Winter reproduction of B. glandula, absence of predators, and the neutral or beneficial effect of algae allows this species to occupy in wave protected areas the whole intertidal zone, displacing the former B. amphitrite populations from the intertidal to the subtidal. In exposed rocky shores the species outcompete mussels from the high intertidal, establishing the typical barnacle fringe.


Hydrobiologia | 2003

Opheliidae (Polychaeta) from the Southwestern Atlantic ocean, with the description of Travisia amadoi n. sp., Ophelina gaucha n. sp. and Ophelina alata n. sp

Rodolfo Elías; Claudia Bremec; Jose Maria Orensanz

Opheliid polychaetes belonging to the genera Armandia, Ophelia, Ophelina, and Travisia, collected along the Southwestern Atlantic coast off Brazil and Argentina, are recorded or given extended descriptions. Travisia amadoi sp. n., Ophelina gaucha sp. n. and Ophelina alata sp. n. are described.


Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2013

Spatial and long-term analyses of reference and sewage-impacted sites in the SW Atlantic (38°S, 57°W) for the assessment of sensitive and tolerant polychaetes

María A. Sanchez; María L. Jaubet; Griselda V. Garaffo; Rodolfo Elías

Discharges of effluent in urbanized littoral areas produce nonlinear changes in benthic organisms. Data on the composition of the benthic community are often used to obtain environmental quality classifications that serve to indicate the health of the environment. This study conducted a comparative analysis of the polychaetes associated with mussel beds and related these results to the values of environmental variables at both reference and sewage-impacted sites over a 10 year period in a rocky intertidal habitat on the coast of the SW Atlantic. The results of the study showed spatial and temporal differences in the abundance and dominance of the polychaetes. The study also furnished evidence of a decrease in the environmental quality of the area. This study allowed the classification of the polychaetes into ecological groups, facilitating the calculation of environmental quality indexes.


Revista De Biologia Marina Y Oceanografia | 2009

Do treatments of sewage plants really work?: The intertidal mussels' community of the southwestern Atlantic shore (38ºS, 57ºW) as a case study

Rodolfo Elías; María S. Rivero; María A. Sanchez; Lourdes Jaubet; Eduardo Alberto Vallarino

Para evaluar el efecto de la planta de tratamiento de efluentes domesticos de Mar del Plata, se realizo una serie de muestreos en los alrededores de la salida de dicho efluente. La hipotesis es que la planta produce un significativo mejoramiento de la salud ambiental, y que los metodos de cobertura y los cuantitativos producen resultados similares siendo ambos efectivos para determinar impacto por efluentes cloacales en comunidades de bivalvos intermareales. Los muestreos fueron efectuados en cuatro localidades (Impactada, Norte, Sur y Control), con tres estaciones ubicadas en cada localidad. Se obtuvieron muestras replicadas de cobertura (diez marcos de 0,5 m2) y de datos cuantitativos (cuatro cilindros de 78 cm2) en cada estacion, cuatro veces a lo largo del 2004, antes y despues de cada una de las dos paradas de mantenimiento de la planta. Los analisis incluyeron metodos no parametricos y parametricos para los datos de cobertura y los cuantitativos. Los resultados mostraron diferencias significativas para ambos tipos de datos para localidades y para Antes-Despues, tanto en los analisis parametricos como en los no parametricos. El funcionamiento de la planta de tratamiento tiene un efecto significativo en la salud del medio, como muestra la estructura de la comunidad bentonica intermareal


Journal of Coastal Research | 2004

Macrobenthic Distribution Patterns at a Sewage Disposal Site in the Inner Shelf off Mar del Plata (SW Atlantic)

Rodolfo Elías; Eduardo Alberto Vallarino; Marcelo Scagliola; Federico Ignacio Isla

Abstract The inner shelf (5–15 m depth) off Mar del Plata (Argentina, Southwestern Atlantic) was studied to assess the influence of an intertidal sewage effluent on macrobenthic populations and to provide baseline information for a future monitoring program. Bottom samples were obtained with van Veen grabs at 49 stations. Macrobenthic organisms retained in a 0.5 mm mesh screen were used for biological analysis. Very fine sand-bottoms with a Natica–Owenia association occur in shallower sites, while patchy coarse sand bottoms plus gravel-sized shell debris inhabited by an association of patchy populations of Melita–Prionospio–Kalliapseudes–Caulleriella characterize the rest of the area. Low organic matter content in the area (from 0.78 to 2.05 %), and absence of any known indicator species (such as Prionospio spp.) in relation to distance to effluent, suggest that local benthic populations remain relatively undisturbed in spite of the heavy input of organic matter. The major factor contributing to this situation is the high hydrodynamics of the area. SUMMARY La plataforma somera frente a la ciudad de Mar del Plata (38° S, 57° W, Atlántico Sudoccidental) recibe la descaga del efluente intermareal cloacal de la ciudad. El estudio se centra en la influencia de dicho impacto en las comunidades bentónicas someras y en el establecimiento de la situación de pre-impacto en el área más profunda para futuros estudios de monitoreo y evaluación ambiental cuando el proyectado emisario submarino sea funcional. Una asociación de Natica y Owenia domina en las estaciones someras (5–7 m), caracterizadas por arenas finas y muy finas, mientras que el resto del área se halla dominada por la asociación constituida por Melita–Prionospio–Kalliapseudes–Caulleriella en sedimentos de arenas más gruesas con fragmentos de conchillas de tamaño grava. Estos organismos se distribuyen alternativamente en parches entre los 7 y los 15 m de profundidad. Las comunidades bentónicas no reflejan un gradiente de contaminación orgánica, aunque la presencia de especies indicadoras (como Prionospio y Caulleriella) evidencian un enriquecimiento de los sedimentos. La distribución en parches de sedimentos y organismos, así como los bajos tenores de materia orgánica en el sedimento se deben a la gran hidrodinámica del área, debida a corrientes de marea y tormentas periódicas, lo cual también explicaría la relativamente buena salud del ambiente.

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Eduardo Alberto Vallarino

Spanish National Research Council

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María S. Rivero

Spanish National Research Council

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Claudia Bremec

National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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María L. Jaubet

Spanish National Research Council

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María A. Sanchez

Spanish National Research Council

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Griselda V. Garaffo

National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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Griselda V. Garaffo

National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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María Lourdes Jaubet

National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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Claudia S. Bremec

Spanish National Research Council

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María Bottero

Spanish National Research Council

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