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Provedor de dados: | Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
País: | Brazil
Título: | Source correlation of biomarkers in a mangrove ecosystem on Santa Catarina Island in southern Brazil
Autores: | Silva,Cesar A.; Madureira,Luiz A.S.
Data: | 2012-09-01
Ano: | 2012
Palavras-chave: | Biomarkers; Leaf; Mangrove; Santa Catarina; Sediment.
Resumo: | The relative distribution of several compounds identified in four samples of recently deposited sediments of the Itacorubi Mangrove located on the Santa Catarina Island, southern Brazil, was compared with similar data on compounds extracted from fresh leaves of three mangrove species (Avicennia schaueriana, the dominant species in the area, Rhizophora mangle and Laguncularia racemosa) and the Gramineae Spartinna alterniflora. Terpenols, previously identified in mangrove species in northern Brazil, were also found. A. schaueriana mainly contains β-amyrin (90.6 μg g-1 of extractable organic matter); low amounts of friedelin, betulin and germanicol were detected only in the leaf extract of this species. R. mangle also contained a significant amount of β-amyrin and it was the only species where taraxerol was detected. In contrast to the leaves, sediment extracts were dominated by germanicol, α-amyrin and campesterol. Despite its chemical lability, betulin was also detected. Two homologous series of α and ω-hydroxy fatty acids were detected in the acid-alkaline fraction. In spite of being reported in the literature as components of terrigenous plants, saturated ω-hydroxy acids were not identified. Our results indicate that although triterpenols may be used as biomarkers for mangrove-derived organic matter, their relative distribution can change according to the region.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652012000300002
Editor: | Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Relação: | 10.1590/S0001-37652012005000042
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências  v.84 n.3 2012
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess