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Alexander Turra
33
Papers
0
Tier 1 Papers
3,882
Citations
Affiliations
- 🇧🇷 Universidade de São Paulo
- 🇿🇦 Sustainability Institute
- 🇪🇸 Instituto Español de Oceanografía
- 🇧🇷 Universidade Brasil
- 🇧🇷 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
- 🇧🇷 Hospital Universitário da Universidade de São Paulo
- 🇧🇷 Universidade Federal do Paraná
- 🇫🇷 Institut Français de la Mer
- 🇧🇷 Centro Universitário do Espírito Santo
- 🇧🇷 Inesc P&D Brasil
Papers (33)
Microplastics in a mosaic of Marine Protected Areas from southeastern Brazil: An assessment based on filter-feeding bivalves
2026
Marine Pollution Bulletin
1 citations
Assessment of marine litter barrier initiatives and their potential as a prevention strategy in Brazil
2025
Sensors and Actuators B Chemical
2 citations
Lessons Learned in Public Sector Capacity Building to Tackle Marine Litter
2025
Minerva
0 citations
Global plastic pollution, sustainable development, and plastic justice
2024
World Development
87 citations
Against the clock to address plastic pollution: Critical challenges to elaborate a comprehensive and ambitious Plastic Treaty
2024
Optical and Quantum Electronics
13 citations
Contamination by microplastics in oysters shows a widespread but patchy occurrence in a subtropical estuarine system
2024
Marine Pollution Bulletin
13 citations
Contamination by Microplastics in Oysters Shows a Widespread But Patchy Occurrence in a Subtropical Estuarine System
2023
SSRN Electronic Journal
0 citations
Microplastics and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
2022
35 citations
From in-person to virtual engagement: Adaptations of a participative process for designing a marine litter public policy in Brazi
2022
REvista COSTAS
2 citations
Microplastics and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
2021
10 citations
From in-person to virtual engagement: Adaptations of a participative process for designing a marine litter public policy in Brazil
2021
State Institution “Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technical Expertise and Information” eBooks
1 citations
Deep-sea plastisphere: long-term colonization by plastic-associated bacterial and archaeal communities in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean
2021
1 citations
Rainfall and Tidal Cycle Regulate Seasonal Inputs of Microplastic Pellets to Sandy Beaches
2020
Frontiers in Environmental Science
64 citations
Predicting the Dispersal and Accumulation of Microplastic Pellets Within the Estuarine and Coastal Waters of South-Eastern Brazil Using Integrated Rainfall Data and Lagrangian Particle Tracking Models
2020
Frontiers in Environmental Science
56 citations
Laundering and textile parameters influence fibers release in household washings
2019
Environmental Pollution
192 citations
Organic contamination of beached plastic pellets in the South Atlantic: Risk assessments can benefit by considering spatial gradients
2019
Chemosphere
71 citations
Toxicity of microplastics in the marine environment.
2019
CABI eBooks
4 citations
Using mussel as a global bioindicator of coastal microplastic pollution
2018
Environmental Pollution
571 citations
Continuous Exposure to Microplastics Does Not Cause Physiological Effects in the Cultivated Mussel Perna perna
2018
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
116 citations
Synthetic fibers as microplastics in the marine environment: A review from textile perspective with a focus on domestic washings
2017
The Science of The Total Environment
742 citations
Spatial variability in the concentrations of metals in beached microplastics
2017
Marine Pollution Bulletin
272 citations
Trophic transference of microplastics under a low exposure scenario: Insights on the likelihood of particle cascading along marine food-webs
2017
Marine Pollution Bulletin
244 citations
Colour spectrum and resin-type determine the concentration and composition of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in plastic pellets
2017
Marine Pollution Bulletin
88 citations
Quantifying microplastic pollution on sandy beaches: the conundrum of large sample variability and spatial heterogeneity
2017
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
48 citations
Corrigendum to “Synthetic fibers as microplastics in the marine environment: A review from textile perspective with a focus on domestic washings” [Sci. Total Environ. 598 (2017) 1116–1129]
2017
The Science of The Total Environment
22 citations
Microplastic contamination in natural mussel beds from a Brazilian urbanized coastal region: Rapid evaluation through bioassessment
2016
Marine Pollution Bulletin
232 citations
Revealing accumulation zones of plastic pellets in sandy beaches
2016
Environmental Pollution
101 citations
Assessment of microplastic toxicity to embryonic development of the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea)
2015
Marine Pollution Bulletin
386 citations
Small-scale temporal and spatial variability in the abundance of plastic pellets on sandy beaches: Methodological considerations for estimating the input of microplastics
2015
Marine Pollution Bulletin
103 citations
Sources, fate and effects of microplastics in the environment: a global assessment
2015
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
24 citations
Three-dimensional distribution of plastic pellets in sandy beaches: shifting paradigms
2014
Scientific Reports
315 citations
Assessment of microplastic toxicity to embryonic development of the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea
2014
LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)
0 citations
Plastic pellets as oviposition site and means of dispersal for the ocean-skater insect Halobates
2012
Marine Pollution Bulletin
66 citations