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Impacts Caused by Manganese in the Aquatic Environments of Brazil

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Aquatic contamination derived from erroneous anthropogenic practices favors the presence of metals and other contaminants in the water. Metals, especially, cause concern because of their persistence, potential for bioaccumulation in aquatic organisms, and deposition in the soil. Considering that the current potable water systems of developing countries do not completely remove these substances, it becomes an environmental and public health problem, since populations often ingest water contaminated by such substances. As manganese is one of the main and most frequent metal pollutants, some studies already seek to elucidate the damage that this substance presents to aquatic organisms. In this sense, the present study sought to compile and revise data about the occurrence and the impacts caused by this element in the aquatic environments of Brazil.

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  1. Laboratório de Histologia comparada, Universidade Feevale, Novo Hamburgo, RS, Brazil

    Gabriela Zimmermann Prado Rodrigues & Mateus Santos de Souza

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Rodrigues, G.Z.P., de Souza, M.S., Gehlen, G. (2019). Impacts Caused by Manganese in the Aquatic Environments of Brazil. In: Gómez-Oliván, L. (eds) Pollution of Water Bodies in Latin America. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27296-8_19

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