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CARUSO articles published in peer reviewed journals and proceedings
   
   
2009  
   
   
Passos CJS (2009) Alimentation locale et exposition au mercure en Amazonie brésilienne. Bulletin d’Information en Santé Environnementale, 20 : 10-14.
   
Barbosa Jr. F, Fillion M, Lemire M, Passos CJS, Rodrigues JL, Philibert A, Guimarães JR & Mergler D (2009) Elevated blood lead levels in a riverside population in the Brazilian Amazon, Environmental Research, 109: 594-599.
   
Béliveau A, Lucotte M, Davidson R, do Canto Lopes LO & Paquet (2009) Early Hg mobility in cultivated tropical soils one year after slash-and-burn of the primary forest, in the Brazilian Amazon. Science of the Total Environment 407: 4480–4489.
   
Sampaio da Silva D, Lucotte M, Paquet S & Davidson (2009) Influence of ecological factors and of land use on mercury levels in fish in the Tapajós River basin, Amazon. Environmental Research, 109: 432–446.
   
   
2008  
   
   
Lemire M, Mergler D, Huel G, Passos CJs, Fillion M, Philibert A, Guimarães JRD, Rheault I & Norman G (2008) Biomarkers of selenium status in the Amazonian context: Blood, urine and sequential hair segments. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 1-10.
   
Passos CJS & Mergler D (2008) Human mercury exposure and adverse health effects in the Amazon: a review. Cad. Saúde Pública, 24, suppl.4: 503-520.
   
Mertens F, Saint-Charles J, Lucotte M & Mergler D (2008) Emergence and robustness of a community discussion network on mercury contamination and health in the brazilian Amazon. Health Education and Behavior, 35: 509-521.
   
Passos CJS, Sampaio D, Lemire M, Fillion M, Guimarães JRD, Lucotte M & Mergler D(2008) Daily mercury intake in fish-eating populations in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 1–12.
   
   
2007  
   
Mergler D, Anderson HA, Chan LHM, Mahaffey KR, Murray M, Sakamoto M & Stern AH (2007) Methylmercury exposure and health effects in humans: a worldwide concern. AMBIO 36:3–11.
   
Passos CJS, Mergler D, Fillion M, Lemire M, Mertens M, Guimarães JRD & Philibert A(2007) Epidemiologic confirmation that fruit consumption influences mercury exposure in riparian communities in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Research, 105: 183–193.
   
Farella N, Davidson R, Lucotte M & Daigle S (2007) Nutrient and mercury variations in soils from family farms of the Tapajós region (Brazilian Amazon): Recommendations for better farming. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 120: 449–462.
   
Passos CJS, Mergler D, Lemire M, Fillion M, Guimarães JRD (2007) Fish consumption and bioindicators of inorganic mercury exposure, Science of the Total Environment, 373: 68–76.
   
   
2006  
   
Fillion, M., Mergler, D., Passos, CJS., Larribe, F., Lemire, M., Guimarães, JRD. (2006). A preliminary study of mercury exposure and blood pressure in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Health, 5:29.
   
Passos CJ & Mergler D (2006) Data use in a toxicokinetic model to reconstruct methylmercury intake. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 16: 299.
   
Mertens F, Saint-Charles J, Demeda K, Castro M, Passos C-JS, Lucotte M, Guimarães JRD and Mergler D (2006) Community Network Analysis For Addressing Gender, Equity And Participation In Ecohealth Research, Proceedings of IDRC’s participation in the 11th World Congress on Public Health/ 8th Brazilian Congress on Collective Health, August 21st- 25th, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 102-111.
   
Sampaio da Silva D, Lucotte M, Roulet M, Poirier H, Mergler D e Crossa M (2006) Mercúrio nos peixes do Rio Tapajós, Amazônia brasileira, InterfacEHS
   
Farella N, Lucotte M, Davidson R, Daigle S (2006) Mercury release from deforested soils triggered by base cation enrichment. Science of the Total Environment. 368: 19–29.
   


Demeda K, Mertens F, Saint-Charles J, Passos CJ, Castro C & Mergler M (2006) Relações de Poder e Poluição pelo Mercúrio em uma Comunidade do Tapajós, proceedings from the III Encontro da Associação Nacional de Pós Graduação e Pesquisa em Ambiente e Sociedade.

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Castro M, Mertens F, Saint-Charles J, Passos CJ, Demeda K & Mergler M (2006) Cultura Alimentar e Mercúrio no Tapajós: Um Estudo de Caso sobre a Reima, proceedings from the III Encontro da Associação Nacional de Pós Graduação e Pesquisa em Ambiente e Sociedade.


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Lemire M, Mergler D, Fillion M, Sousa Passos CJ, Guimarães J-R, Davidson R, Lucotte M (2006) Elevated blood selenium levels in the Brazilian Amazon. The Science of the Total Environment. 366:101-111.
   

Mainville N, Webb J, Lucotte M, Davidson R, Betancourt O, Cueva E& Mergler D (2006) Decrease of soil fertility and release of mercury following deforestation in the Andean Amazon, Napo River valley, Ecuador. The Science of the Total Environment, 368:88-98.
   
   
2005  
   

Sampaio da Silva D, Lucotte M, Roulet M, Poirier H, Mergler D, de Oliveira Santos E & Crossa M (2005) Trophic structure and bioaccumulation of mercury in fish of 3 natural lakes of the Brazilian Amazon. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 165: 77-94.
   
Mertens F, Saint-Charles J, Mergler D, Passos CJ and Lucotte M (2005) Network Approach for Analyzing and Promoting Equity in Participatory Ecohealth Research, Ecohealth, 2: 113-126.
   
   
2004  
   
Lucotte M, Davidson R, Mergler D, Saint-Charles J, Guimarães JR (2004) Human exposure to mercury as a consequence of landscape management and socio-economical behaviors. Part I: the Brazilian Amazon case study. RMZ-M&G, 51: 668-672.
   
de Oliveira Bahia M, Corvelo TC, Mergler D, Burbano RR, Lima PDL, Cardoso PCS, Lucotte M & Amorim MIM (2004) Environmental biomonitoring using cytogenetic endpoints in a population exposed to mercury in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental and molecular mutagenesis, 44: 346-349.
   

Webb J, Mainville N, Mergler M, Lucotte M, Betancourt O, Davidson R, Cueva E & Quizhpe E (2004) Mercury in fish-eating communities of the Andean Amazon, Napo River Valley, Ecuador. Ecohealth, 1: 59-71.
   
Passos CJ, Mergler D, Larribe F (2004) Response to “Fruits, fish and mercury: further considerations”. Environmental Research 96: 104-105.
   
Miranda MR, Guimaraes JRD, Roulet M, Acha D, Coelho- Souza SA, Mauro JBN, Iniguez V. (2004) Mercury methylation and bacterial activity in macrophyte associated periphyton in floodplain lakes of the Amazon basin. RMZ-Materials and Geoenvironment 51(2): 1218-1220, 2004.
   
   
2003  
   
Soumis N, Lucotte M, Sampaio D, Giroux D, Cruz Almeida D, Morais S,& Pichet P (2003) Presence of organophosphate insecticides in fish of the Amazon River. Acta Amazônica, 33: 325-338.
   
Passos, C.J., Mergler, D., Gaspar, E., Morais, S., Lucotte, M., Larribe, F., Davidson , D. and de Grosbois, S. (2003) Eating tropical fruit reduces mercury exposure from fish consumption in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Research, 93: 123-130.
   
Passos CJ, Lucotte M, Queiros AG, Mergler D, Peleja JRP, Goch YGF, Morais SS (2003) Condições socioeconômicas e exposição ao mercúrio (Hg) através do consumo de peixe: um estudo de caso em Santarém, Pará, Brasil. Revista Saúde & Ambiente, 6(1/2): 3-11.
   
  Boischio AAP, Mergler D, Passos CJ, Gaspar E, Morais SS (2003) Segmental hair mercury evaluation among mothers, their babies and breast milk along the Tapajós River, Amazon, Brazil. Environmental Sciences 10(2): 107-120. MYU Tokyo.
   
   
2002  
   
Davidson R, Mauffette Y, Gagnon D (2002) Light requirements of seedlings: a method for selecting tropical trees for plantation forestry. Basic and Applied Ecology, 3: 209–220.
   
Mergler D. (2002) Review of neurobehavioral deficits and river fish consumption from the Tapajós (Brazil) and St. Lawrence (Canada) Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, 12 (2): 93-99.
   
   
2001  
   
Farella N, Lucotte M, Louchouarn P, Roulet M. (2001) Deforestation modifying terrestrial organic transport in the Rio Tapajós, Brazilian Amazon. Organic Geochemistry, 32: 1443–1458.
   
Dolbec J, Mergler D, Larribe B, Roulet M, Lebel J, Lucotte M. (2001) Sequential analysis of hair mercury levels in relation to fish diet of an Amazonian population, Brazil. The Science of the Total Environment, 271: 87-97.
   
Roulet M, Lucotte M, Canuel R, Farella N, De Freitos Goch YG, Pacheco Peleja RJ, Guimarães JRD, Mergler D, Amorim M. (2001) Spatio-temporal geochemistry of Hg in waters of the Tapajós and Amazon rivers, Brazil. Limnology and Oceanography, 46 (5): 1141–1157.
   
Roulet M, Lucotte M and Guimarães JRD, (2001) Methylmercury production and accumulation in sediments and soils of an Amazonian floodplain - effect of seasonal inundation. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 128: 41-61.
   
Passos CJ, Mergler D, Gaspar E, Morais S, Lucotte M, Larribe F, Grosbois S. (2001) Caracterização geral do consumo alimentar de uma população ribeirinha na Amazônia Brasileira. Revista Saúde e Ambiente, 4 :72-84.
   
   
2000  
   
Amorim MI, Mergler D, Bahia MO, Dubeau H, Miranda D, Lebel J, Burbano RR, Lucotte M. 2000. Cytogenetic damage related to low levels of methyl mercury contamination in the Brazilian Amazon. An Acad Bras Cienc. 72:497-507.
   
Dolbec J, Mergler D, Sousa Passos CJ, Sousa de Morais S, Lebel J. (2000) Methylmercury exposure affects motor performance of a riverine population of the Tapajos river, Brazilian Amazon. Int Arch Occup Environ Health, 73:195-203.
   
Guimarães, J.R.D; Meili, M; Hylander, L.D; Castro e Silva, E; Roulet, M; Mauro, J.B.N &. Lemos, R.A. (2000) Net mercury methylation in five tropical flood plain regions of Brazil: high in the root zone of floating macrophyte mats but low in surface sediments and flooded soils. The Science of the Total Environment, 261: 99-107.
   
Guimarães, J.R.D., Roulet, M., Lucotte, M. and Mergler, D. (2000) Mercury methylation potentials along a lake-forest transect in the Tapajós river floodplain, Brazilian Amazon: seasonal and vertical variations. The Science of the Total Environment, 261: 91-98.
   
Roulet M, Lucotte M, Canuel R, Farella N, Courcelles M, Guimarães JRD, Mergler D, Amorim M. (2000) Increase in mercury contamination recorded in lacustrine sediments following deforestation in Central Amazonia. Chemical Geology, 165: 243-266.
   
Roulet M, Lucotte M, Guimarães JRD and Rhéault I. (2000) Methylmercury in the water, seston and epiphyton of an Amazonian River and its floodplain, Tapajós River, Brazil. The Science of the Total Environment, 261: 43-59.
   
1999  
   
Davidson R, Gagnon D and Mauffette Y. 1999. Growth and mineral nutrition of the native trees Pollalesta discolor and the N-fixing Inga densiflora in relation to the soil properties of a degraded volcanic soil of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Plant and Soil, 208: 135-147.
   
Roulet M, Lucotte M, Farella N, Serique G, Coelho H, Passos CJS, de Jesus da Silva E, de Andrade PS, Mergler D, Guimaraes JR, Amorim M. (1999) Effects of recent human colonization on the presence of mercury in Amazonian ecosystems. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 112: 297-313.
   
   
1998  
   
Davidson R, Gagnon D, Mauffette Y and Hernandez H. 1998. Early survival, growth and foliar nutrients in native Ecuadorian trees planted on degraded volcanic soil. Forest Ecology and Management, 105: 1-19.
   
Lebel J, Mergler D, Branches F, Lucotte M, Amorim M, Larribe F, Dolbec J. (1998) Neurotoxic effects of low-level methylmercury contamination in the Amazonian Basin. Environmental Research, 79: 20-32.
   
Roulet M, Lucotte M, Saint-Aubin A, Tran S, Rhéault I, Farella N, De Jesus Da Silva E, Dezencourt J, Sousa Passos C-J, Santos Soares G, Guimarães JRD, Mergler D and Amorim M. (1998) The geochemistry of Hg in Central Amazonian soils developed on the Alter-do-Chão formation of the lower Tapajós river valley, Pará state, Brazil. The Science of the Total Environment, 223: 1-24.
   
Roulet M, Lucotte M, Canuel R, Rheault I, Tran S, Gog Y GD, Valer SD, Passos C JS, Silva E D JD, Mergler D, Amorim M. (1998) Distribution and partition of total mercury in waters of the Tapajos River Basin, Brazilian Amazon. The Science of the Total Environment, 213: 203-211.
   
   
1997  
 

Lebel J, Roulet M, Mergler D, Lucotte M and Larribe F. (1997) Fish diet and mercury exposure in a riparian Amazonian population. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 97: 31-44.
   
   
1996  
   
Lebel J, Mergler M, Dolbec J & Lucotte M (1996) Mercury contamination, AMBIO, 25: 374.
 

  Lebel J, Mergler D, Lucotte M, Amorim M, Dolbec J, Miranda D, Arantes G, Rheault I and Pichet P. (1996). Evidence of early nervous system dysfunction in Amazonian populations exposed to low-levels of methylmercury. Neurotoxicology, 17: 157-167.
   
 
   

CARUSO in the press
   
2008  

Kelly Haggart (2008) Mercury Research Bears Fruit in the Amazon WOMEN & ENVIRONMENTS, FALL/WINTER.


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Desmatar é prejudicial à saúde

Revista Adiante – inovação para a sustentabilidade

Escola de Administração de Empresas da Fundação Getulio Vargas
   
   
2004  
   
Desmatamento libera mercúrio
Ciência Hoje, Vol. 35, nº 206, July 2004
Sylvia Fushiyoshi

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1999  
   
Aguapé agrava contaminação por mercúrio
Por Jane B. Narvaez Mauro, Jean Remy D. Guimarães e Ricardo Melamed.
Ciência Hoje, vol. 25, nº 150, June 1999.

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Costa de Castro MA (2005) Alimentação e reima no vale do Tapajós. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso apresentado ao Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade Federal do Pará para a obtenção do título de Licenciatura e Bacharelado em Ciências Sociais.
 

Passos CJ, Sampaio da Silva D, Mergler D, Mertens F, Guimarães JRD, Saint-Charles J, Lucotte M, Lemire M, Fillion M, Farella N, Davidson R (2005) O mercúrio no Tapajós. Gráfica Brasil.