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João Paulo Machado Torres

João Paulo Machado Torres

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
6569
World Ranking
6506
National Ranking
42

Overview

João Paulo Machado Torres is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research includes a strong focus on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis, with 66 publications in this subfield. Other areas of study include ecology, pollution, environmental chemistry, and plant science.

The scientist has contributed to research on topics such as mercury impact and mitigation studies, toxic organic pollutants impact, marine animal studies, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, isotope analysis in ecology, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, and effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals.

João Paulo Machado Torres has published recent papers addressing several environmental concerns. Selected recent publications include:

  • Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research (2023), published in Global Change Biology
  • Occurrence of pharmaceuticals in seafood from two Brazilian coastal areas: Implication for human risk assessment (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • A review on pesticides in flower production: A push to reduce human exposure and environmental contamination (2021), published in Environmental Pollution
  • Survey on endocrine-disrupting chemicals in seafood: Occurrence and distribution (2022), published in Environmental Research
  • Brazilian overview of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances listed as persistent organic pollutants in the Stockholm Convention (2021), published in Chemosphere

The frequent co-authors of João Paulo Machado Torres include Paulo R. Dorneles, Juliana Souza-Kasprzyk, Erli Schneider Costa, Olaf Malm, and Larissa Schmauder Teixeira da Cunha, each appearing in multiple collaborative works.

Common publication venues for their work are:

  • Environmental Pollution
  • Chemosphere
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Polar Biology

Best Publications

  • Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) as new Stockholm Convention POPs--a global perspective on the management of Lindane and its waste isomers.

    John Vijgen;P. C. Abhilash;P. C. Abhilash;Yi Fan Li;Yi Fan Li;Yi Fan Li;Rup Lal;Rup Lal

  • Dioxin- and POP-contaminated sites—contemporary and future relevance and challenges

    Roland Weber;Caroline Gaus;Mats Tysklind;Paul Johnston

  • First Determination of UV Filters in Marine Mammals. Octocrylene Levels in Franciscana Dolphins

    Pablo Gago-Ferrero;Mariana B. Alonso;Mariana B. Alonso;Carolina P. Bertozzi;Juliana Marigo

  • DDT (dicloro difenil tricloroetano): toxicidade e contaminação ambiental - uma revisão

    Claudio D'Amato;João P. M. Torres;Olaf Malm

  • Pyrethroids in human breast milk: occurrence and nursing daily intake estimation.

    Cayo Corcellas;Maria Luisa Feo;Joao Paulo Torres;Olaf Malm

  • Methylmercury in Fish and Hair Samples from the Balbina Reservoir, Brazilian Amazon

    Helena do Amaral Kehrig;Olaf Malm;Hirokatsu Akagi;Jean R.D. Guimarães

  • Pyrethroids: A new threat to marine mammals?

    Mariana B. Alonso;Maria Luisa Feo;Cayo Corcellas;Lara G. Vidal;Lara G. Vidal

  • Toxic heritage: Maternal transfer of pyrethroid insecticides and sunscreen agents in dolphins from Brazil.

    Mariana B. Alonso;Mariana B. Alonso;Mariana B. Alonso;Maria Luisa Feo;Cayo Corcellas;Pablo Gago-Ferrero

  • Anthropogenic and naturally-produced organobrominated compounds in marine mammals from Brazil.

    Paulo R. Dorneles;José Lailson-Brito;Alin C. Dirtu;Liesbeth Weijs

  • Organochlorine pesticides (OCs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in sediments and crabs (Chasmagnathus granulata, Dana, 1851) from mangroves of Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

    Alexandre Santos de Souza;João Paulo Machado Torres;Rodrigo Ornellas Meire;Rafael Curcio Neves

  • Cephalopods and cetaceans as indicators of offshore bioavailability of cadmium off Central South Brazil Bight.

    Paulo Renato Dorneles;Paulo Renato Dorneles;José Lailson-Brito;José Lailson-Brito;Roberta Aguiar dos Santos;Paulo Alberto Silva da Costa

  • Impact of hydrocarbons, PCBs and heavy metals on bacterial communities in Lerma River, Salamanca, Mexico: Investigation of hydrocarbon degradation potential.

    Elcia M.S. Brito;Magali De la Cruz Barrón;César A. Caretta;Marisol Goñi-Urriza

  • DDT and its metabolites in breast milk from the Madeira River basin in the Amazon, Brazil.

    Antonio Azeredo;João P.M. Torres;Márlon de Freitas Fonseca;Márlon de Freitas Fonseca;José Lailson Britto

  • Natural and anthropogenically-produced brominated compounds in endemic dolphins from Western South Atlantic: another risk to a vulnerable species.

    Mariana B. Alonso;Mariana B. Alonso;Ethel Eljarrat;Marina Gorga;Eduardo R. Secchi

  • Anthropogenic (PBDE) and naturally-produced (MeO-PBDE) brominated compounds in cetaceans--a review.

    Mariana B. Alonso;Mariana B. Alonso;Alexandre Azevedo;João Paulo M. Torres;Paulo R. Dorneles

  • High organochlorine accumulation in blubber of Guiana dolphin, Sotalia guianensis, from Brazilian coast and its use to establish geographical differences among populations.

    J. Lailson-Brito;J. Lailson-Brito;P.R. Dorneles;P.R. Dorneles;C.E. Azevedo-Silva;A.F. Azevedo

  • Occurrence of organic UV filters and metabolites in lebranche mullet (Mugil liza) from Brazil.

    Daniel Molins-Delgado;Ramón Muñoz;Sylvia Nogueira;Mariana B. Alonso

  • DDT Environmental Persistence from Its Use in a Vector Control Program: A Case Study

    Elisa D.R Vieira;João P.M Torres;Olaf Malm

  • ASPECTOS ECOTOXICOLÓGICOS DE HIDROCARBONETOS POLICÍCLICOS AROMÁTICOS

    Rodrigo Ornellas Meire;Antônio Azeredo;João Paulo Machado Torres

  • Assessment of heavy metals in the particulate matter of two Brazilian metropolitan areas by using Tillandsia usneoides as atmospheric biomonitor

    Nelzair Araújo Vianna;Daniel Gonçalves;Flávia R. Brandão;Roberta P. de Barros

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in recent sediments from a subtropical estuary in Brazil

    Raphael Pietzsch;Sambasiva R. Patchineelam;João P.M. Torres

Frequent Co-Authors

Olaf Malm
Olaf Malm Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería
Ethel Eljarrat
Ethel Eljarrat Spanish National Research Council
Eduardo R. Secchi
Eduardo R. Secchi Federal University of Rio Grande
Krishna Das
Krishna Das University of Liège
Roland Weber
Roland Weber Aarhus University
Karl-Werner Schramm
Karl-Werner Schramm Technical University of Munich
M. Silvia Díaz-Cruz
M. Silvia Díaz-Cruz Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research
Bernhard Henkelmann
Bernhard Henkelmann Helmholtz Munich
Jean Remy Davée Guimarães
Jean Remy Davée Guimarães Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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