Título: | STEROLS AS MOLECULAR MARKERS OF FECAL POLLUTION IN IGUAÇU-SARAPUÍ ESTUARINE SYSTEM, GUANABARA BAY NORTHEAST (RJ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Autor: |
LIVIA GEBARA MURARO SERRATE CORDEIRO |
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Colaborador(es): |
ANGELA DE LUCA REBELLO WAGENER - Orientador RENATO DA SILVA CARREIRA - Coorientador |
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Catalogação: | 28/AGO/2006 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notas: |
[pt] Todos os dados constantes dos documentos são de inteira responsabilidade de seus autores. Os dados utilizados nas descrições dos documentos estão em conformidade com os sistemas da administração da PUC-Rio. [en] All data contained in the documents are the sole responsibility of the authors. The data used in the descriptions of the documents are in conformity with the systems of the administration of PUC-Rio. |
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Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=8904&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=8904&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.8904 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The contamination by domestic sewage of the Iguaçu River
and Sarapuí
channel, located in the north-western sector of Guanabara
Bay, was investigated
by the determination of sterols and elemental composition
(C and N) of organic
matter in suspended matter and superficial sediments.
Physico-chemical and
chemical characterization of water and sediments were
considered as well.
Conventional analytical methods, like gas
chromatography/mass spectrometry
(sterols) and dry chemical oxidation (C and N), were
employed after optimization
for specific field and laboratory conditions. In March and
September/2004
water/suspended particles (7 sample stations) and sediment
(10 stations) were
collected in a transect from 6 km up the river until 4 km
off the river, in the bay.
An additional sample of bulk sewage was also collected at
a sewage treatment
plant close to the studied area. The faecal sterols
predominate over phyto sterols
in suspended matter and sediments. Among the 14 sterols
quantified, higher
concentrations (up to 21 mg gC-1) were measured for
coprostanone (5b-cholestan-
3b-one), epicholestanol (5a-cholestan-3a-ol) and
coprostanol (5b-cholestan-3b-
ol). In general, there is a river-bay decreasing gradient
in sterol concentration,
associated with the location of diffuse sources of sewage.
Seasonal variation in
climatic factor also influenced in the sterols
distribution. The presence of
epicholestanol (reported here for the first time in
Guanabara Bay) in relatively
high concentrations in suspended matter and sediments (as
well as in raw sewage),
the differences in sterol composition between raw sewage
and suspended
matter/sediments, and the values obtained for selected
sterols source-diagnostic
ratios, suggested the occurrence of significant microbial
alteration of organic
matter, with implications on the geochemistry of sterols.
The elevated degradation
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