Evaluation of data quality in lichen biomonitoring studies: the Italian experience.

abstract：:An improved liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was developed and validated to investigate the occurrence of selected antibiotic residues in Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta. LC and MS parameters were optimized to produce the maximum analytical responses for each compound. The established m...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chen Y,Leung KS,Wong JW,Selvam A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to evaluate the levels and seasonal variations of some organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in the cultivated land of Oke-Osun farm settlement, Osogbo, Nigeria. A field sampling programme was conducted in the rainy and dry seasons for 4 months each resulting in the analysis of a total of 40 sample...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Oyekunle JA,Ogunfowokan AO,Torto N,Akanni MS

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental indicators for long-range atmospheric transported heavy metals have been developed. The indicators are based on data for Pb and Cd from national moss surveys which are performed regularly in Norway. The interpolation programme 'kriging' has been used to transform the data from irregular grids to regular ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Berg T,Pedersen U,Steinnes E

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contamination levels of PCDD/PCDFs in irrigation water are the most rarely studied throughout the world. The major problem in Egypt is the lack of studies and statistics about these contaminants of POPs in irrigation water. Therefore, this study is the first comprehensive report to elucidate the estimation and sou...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： El-Rahman MMA,Hassanin AS,El-Shahat MF,Nabil YM

更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissolved oxygen was continuously monitored in eight sites of northern Gulf of Mexico estuaries in August, 1990. Monte Carlo analyses on subsamples of the data were used to evaluate several commonly used monitoring strategies. Monitoring strategies which involve single point sampling of dissolved oxygen may often misc...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Summers JK,Engle VD

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of dispersed catalysts in aqueous medium inside reactors in advanced oxidative processes is common among researchers. However, due to the difficult separation of these species after treatment, in many cases, the treatment process is unfeasible. In this context, the main target of the work was the evaluation of...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Oliveira Guimarães C,Boscaro França A,Lamas Samanamud GR,Prado Baston E,Zanetti Lofrano RC,Almeida Loures CC,Rezende Naves LL,Naves FL

更新日期：2019-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil pollution by arsenic increases the potential risk of arsenic entrance into the food chain. The usefulness of maleic anhydride- styrene- acrylic acid copolymer on the mobility and phytoavailability of arsenic was evaluated. Treatments were the concentrations of acrylic copolymer (0, 0.05, 0.10, and 0.20% w/w) and ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mansouri T,Golchin A,Kouhestani H

更新日期：2017-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mining plays an important role in Brazilian exports. On the other hand, large urban centers like São Paulo, with approximately 21 million inhabitants, also demand an increasing domestic consumption of natural resources, such as construction aggregate. There are many quarries located in the surroundings of urban center...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wichers M,Iramina WS,de Eston SM,Ayres da Silva ALM

更新日期：2017-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Two vegetation-monitoring methods were compared: subplot frequency analysis (SF) and visual estimation of percentage cover (VE). Two independent observers collected data from two semi-natural, species-rich grasslands on three different occasions during the growth-season. During the last data collection period, survey ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Carlsson AL,Bergfur J,Milberg P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paper industries using different raw materials such as hard wood, bamboo, baggase, rice-straw and waste papers and bleaching chemicals like chlorine, hypochlorite, chlorine dioxide, hydrogen peroxide, sulphite and oxygen were studied to estimate organic pollution load and Adsorbable Organic Halides (AOX) per ton of pr...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ranganathan K,Jeyapaul S,Sharma DC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation was conducted on the macro-benthic fauna of the Napoleon Gulf in the northern part of Lake Victoria from March 2011 to December 2016 at the cage fish farm. The aim was to examine the likely impact of cage aquaculture on macro-benthic invertebrates. Cage aquaculture is now a common practice on Lake Vic...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Egessa R,Pabire GW,Ocaya H

更新日期：2018-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a procedure for estimating the distribution of ionic material in the NH3-HNO3-H2SO4-NaCl system and applies this procedure in a particular case. The data used were measurements of HNO3, NH3, NO 3 (-) , SO 4 (-) , NH 4 (+) Cl(-) and Na(+) performed during February 1989 - February 1990 in a central A...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kirkitsos PD,Sikiotis D

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Industrial complexes may release dust emissions through several to up to tens of stacks, as well as via fugitive area sources. Several diffusion models for small-scale fugitive dust sources have been developed and combined with a point source model to form a series of models for industrial complexes. The applicable ar...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gengxin H,Liguo X,Yanfeng H

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the concentration and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the sediments of Oji River due to point sources of pollution from abattoir and power plant and determined the ecological and human health risks associated with the PAHs in the sediments. Oji River in Nigeria receives co...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ugochukwu UC,Onuorah AL,Okwu-Delunzu VU,Odinkonigbo UL,Onuora OH

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and function of the coastal wetland ecosystem in the southern Laizhou Bay have been changed greatly and influenced by regional hydrological changes. The coastal wetlands have degraded significantly during the latest 30 years due to successive drought, decreasing of runoff, pollution, underground saline w...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhang X,Zhang Y,Sun H,Xia D

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review critical issues that must be considered when selecting indicator species for a monitoring program that aims to maintain or restore ecological integrity. First, we examine the pros and cons of different management approaches on which a conservation program can be based and conclude that ecosystem management i...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Carignan V,Villard MA

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vegetation, environmental characteristics, and forest productivity were studied in the boreal forest in the North Klondike River Valley, Yukon Territory, Canada. The concept and approach of biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification were followed. For the treed vegetation, five ecosystem types were distinguished based on...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kojima S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a method was developed to evaluate the degradation of haloacetic acids (HAAs) in water by a heterogenous Fenton-like process catalyzed by cobalt-doped magnetite nanoparticles (Fe3 - xCoxO4), extraction of the contaminants by liquid-liquid extraction (LLE), and analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectro...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mourão AO,Silva DF,Rodriguez M,Torres TS,Franco ES,Pádua VL,da Silva Faria MC,Maia LFO,Rodrigues JL

更新日期：2019-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study aimed to assess the quality of apportion pollution sources and examine the impacts of anthropogenic activities on groundwater. The study was implemented in two sequential steps of (1) bulk examination of groundwater quality followed by principal component analysis/factor analysis (PCA/FA) to apportio...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Nguyen BT,Nguyen TMT,Bach QV

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the inception of the U.S. DOE Hanford Site in 1943, numerous studies have been conducted on terrestrial wildlife. Onsite contractors have focused their attention on the role of wildlife in the uptake and transport of radionuclides. Graduate students from across the nation have also completed more than 15 theses ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Fitzner RE,Gray RH

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last three decades, the industrial and human activities in the coastal area of Saudi Arabia have increased dramatically and resulted in the continuous invasion of different types of pollutants including heavy metals. Seven sediment cores were collected from three major industrialized areas; Jeddah, Rabigh and Y...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Badr NB,El-Fiky AA,Mostafa AR,Al-Mur BA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sandy sediment and its infauna were annually sampled along the shallow waters of the Israeli coast during the 2005-2016 period, as a part of the Israeli National Environmental Program framework, aiming to detect anthropogenic interference in that province by monitoring changes in the species composition, abundance, an...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lubinevsky H,Herut B,Tom M

更新日期：2019-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective environmental management requires documentation of ecosystem status and changes to that status. Without long-term data, short-term natural variability can mask chronic and/or cumulative impacts, often until critical levels are reached. However, a trade-off generally occurs between sampling in space and time....

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hewitt JE,Thrush SF

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Air pollutants pose a risk to forest health and vitality in the United States. Here we present the major findings from a national scale air pollution assessment that is part of the United States' 2003 Report on Sustainable Forests. We examine trends and the percent forest subjected to specific levels of ozone and wet ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Coulston JW,Riitters KH,Smith GC

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metals are persistent environmental contaminants, and transport of metals into the environment poses a threat to ecosystems, as plants and wildlife are susceptible to long-term exposure, bioaccumulation, and potential toxicity. We investigated the distribution and cascading extent of heavy metal accumulation in ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lester MB,van Riper C 3rd

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding soil gas radon spatial variations can allow the constructor of a new house to prevent radon gas flowing from the ground. Indoor radon concentration distribution depends on many parameters and it is difficult to use its spatial variation to assess radon potential. Many scientists use to measure outdoor so...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Buttafuoco G,Tallarico A,Falcone G

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Algal bloom as a common phenomenon in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman had catastrophic effects on environmental, social, economic, and human health aspects from 2008 to 2009. Since 2008, the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman Ecological Research Institute (PGSOERI) has monitored and managed algal blooms in the Horm...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mirza Esmaeili F,Mortazavi MS,Dehghan Banadaki AR

更新日期：2019-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The Clean Water Act mandates that the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of our nation's waters be maintained and restored. Physical integrity has often been defined as physical habitat integrity, and as such, data collected during biological monitoring programs focus primarily on habitat quality. However, w...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Asmus B,Magner JA,Vondracek B,Perry J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, radiological distribution of gross alpha, gross beta, (226)Ra, (232)Th, (40)K, and (137)Cs for a total of 40 natural spring water samples obtained from seven cities of the Eastern Black Sea Region was determined by artificial neural network (ANN) method. In the ANN method employed, the backpropagation a...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Yeşilkanat CM,Kobya Y

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessment of the food chain mobility of heavy metals in the natural ecosystem receives more attention nowadays. In the present study, mulberry-silkworm food chain has been focused as a templet to assess the biomobility of heavy metals in soil-higher plant-insect hierarchy. Both in the case of Cd and Cu treatments, hi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Prince SP,Senthilkumar P,Subburam V

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00