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Tommaso Giarrizzo is affiliated with the Universidade Federal do Ceará in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant body of work spanning several subfields including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, pollution, global and planetary change, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

The main topics of Giarrizzo's work highlight a concentrated interest in areas such as microplastics and plastic pollution, fish ecology and management studies, fish biology, ecology, and behavior, coral and marine ecosystems studies, recycling and waste management techniques, marine and fisheries research, and various fish biology and ecology studies.

Giarrizzo has contributed to a variety of recent papers including the following:

  • Mysterious oil spill in the Atlantic Ocean threatens marine biodiversity and local people in Brazil, 2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • A database of freshwater fish species of the Amazon Basin, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Plastic pollution: A focus on freshwater biodiversity, 2021, AMBIO
  • The sea anemone Bunodosoma cangicum as a potential biomonitor for microplastics contamination on the Brazilian Amazon coast, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Anthropogenic litter on Brazilian beaches: Baseline, trends and recommendations for future approaches, 2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin

The scientist has an extensive collaboration network, frequently coauthoring with researchers such as Ryan Andrades, Marcelo de Oliveira Soares, José Amorim Reis-Filho, Valter M. Azevedo-Santos, and Marcelo Ândrade.

Giarrizzo's work has been regularly published in several venues, most notably:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Datasets - Sistema SALVE - ICMBio
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong

    K. O Winemiller;P. B McIntyre;L Castello;E Fluet-Chouinard

  • Fish and aquatic habitat conservation in South America: a continental overview with emphasis on neotropical systems

    M. Barletta;A. J. Jaureguizar;C. Baigun;N. F. Fontoura

  • First evidence of microplastic ingestion by fishes from the Amazon River estuary.

    Tamyris de Souza e Silva Pegado;Kurt Schmid;Kirk O. Winemiller;David Chelazzi

  • Length–weight relationships for Brazilian estuarine fishes along a latitudinal gradient

    J.-C. Joyeux;T. Giarrizzo;R. M. Macieira;H. L. Spach

  • First account of plastic pollution impacting freshwater fishes in the Amazon: Ingestion of plastic debris by piranhas and other serrasalmids with diverse feeding habits.

    Marcelo C. Andrade;Kirk O. Winemiller;Priscilla S. Barbosa;Alessia Fortunati

  • A potpourri of microplastics in the sea surface and water column of the Mediterranean Sea

    Alessandra Cincinelli;Tania Martellini;Cristiana Guerranti;Costanza Scopetani

  • Mysterious oil spill in the Atlantic Ocean threatens marine biodiversity and local people in Brazil.

    Rafael Almeida Magris;Tommaso Giarrizzo

  • Plastic pollution: A focus on freshwater biodiversity

    Valter M. Azevedo-Santos;Marcelo F. G. Brito;Pedro S. Manoel;Júlia F. Perroca;Júlia F. Perroca

  • A database of freshwater fish species of the Amazon Basin

    Céline Jézéquel;Pablo A. Tedesco;Rémy Bigorne;Javier A. Maldonado-Ocampo

  • DNA-based identification reveals illegal trade of threatened shark species in a global elasmobranch conservation hotspot

    Leonardo Manir Feitosa;Ana Paula Barbosa Martins;Ana Paula Barbosa Martins;Tommaso Giarrizzo;Wagner Macedo

  • The sea anemone Bunodosoma cangicum as a potential biomonitor for microplastics contamination on the Brazilian Amazon coast.

    L.M.S. Morais;F. Sarti;D. Chelazzi;A. Cincinelli

  • Utilization of carbon sources in a northern Brazilian mangrove ecosystem

    Tommaso Giarrizzo;Ralf Schwamborn;Ulrich Saint-Paul

  • Marine debris in Trindade Island, a remote island of the South Atlantic.

    Ryan Andrades;Robson G. Santos;Jean-Christophe Joyeux;David Chelazzi

  • REVIEW OF THE GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF FISH FAUNA OF THE XINGU RIVER BASIN, BRAZIL

    Mauricio Camargo;Tommaso Giarrizzo;Victoria Isaac

  • Food consumption as an indicator of the conservation of natural resources in riverine communities of the Brazilian Amazon

    Victoria J. Isaac;Morgana C. Almeida;Tommaso Giarrizzo;Claudia P. Deus

  • Length–weight and length–length relationships for 135 fish species from the Xingu River (Amazon Basin, Brazil)

    T. Giarrizzo;R. R. de Sena Oliveira;M. Costa Andrade;A. Pedrosa Gonçalves

  • Widespread diversity deficits of coral reef sharks and rays

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  • Microplastic and artificial cellulose microfibers ingestion by reef fishes in the Guarapari Islands, southwestern Atlantic.

    Raphael M. Macieira;Leticia Aparecida Silva Oliveira;Gabriel C. Cardozo-Ferreira;Caio Ribeiro Pimentel

  • Anthropogenic litter on Brazilian beaches: Baseline, trends and recommendations for future approaches.

    Ryan Andrades;Ryan Andrades;Tamyris Pegado;Bruno S. Godoy;José Amorim Reis-Filho

  • Ingestion of microplastics by Hypanus guttatus stingrays in the Western Atlantic Ocean (Brazilian Amazon Coast).

    Tamyris Pegado;Lucio Brabo;Kurt Schmid;Francesco Sarti

  • Weight-length relationships for intertidal fish fauna in a mangrove estuary in Northern Brazil

    T. Giarrizzo;A. J. Silva de Jesus;E. C. Lameira;J. B. Araújo de Almeida

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Christophe Joyeux
Jean-Christophe Joyeux Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Alessandra Cincinelli
Alessandra Cincinelli University of Florence
Iracilda Sampaio
Iracilda Sampaio Federal University of Para
Kirk O. Winemiller
Kirk O. Winemiller Texas A&M University
Ulrich Saint-Paul
Ulrich Saint-Paul Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology
Euan S. Harvey
Euan S. Harvey Curtin University
Angelo Antonio Agostinho
Angelo Antonio Agostinho State University of Maringa
Jansen Zuanon
Jansen Zuanon National Institute of Amazonian Research
Luiz A. Rocha
Luiz A. Rocha California Academy of Sciences
Nigel E. Hussey
Nigel E. Hussey University of Windsor

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