Interlaboratory variability of amphipod sediment toxicity tests in a cooperative regional monitoring program.

abstract：:The Grand Canyon, located in Northern Arizona, is one of the seven natural wonders of the world, and has been set aside as a National Park to preserve its unique character. Several million visitors from all over the world travel to the Grand Canyon each year to witness its awesome beauty, As a natural preserve, the ar...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Archer SF,Molenar JV,Dietrich DL

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urmia Lake, as the largest lake in Iran borders, has a special role in the ecosystem of the region. The water level in this lake declines in recent year remarkably, so monitoring the lake water quality is important from an environmental view. In this research, the changes in the qualitative variables of the lake water...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Sattari MT,Mirabbasi R,Jarhan S,Shaker Sureh F,Ahmad S

更新日期：2020-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Phthalates are chemicals used as plasticizers and solvents in many consumer products but are suspected of disrupting the endocrine system and are known for their reproductive/developmental health risks. This study examined the extent and predictors of phthalate exposure among 599 couples undergoing in vitro fertilizat...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Al-Saleh I,Coskun S,Al-Doush I,Al-Rajudi T,Abduljabbar M,Al-Rouqi R,Al-Hassan S

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal sampling was carried out at four sites on a pampean stream that receives industrial effluent from two textile factories. To evaluate water quality, several physical and chemical parameters were examined and the periphyton growing on cattail (Typha latifolia L.) were analyzed. Water quality and periphyton stru...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Giorgi A,Malacalza L

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical greenhouse gas (GHG) flux estimates from diverse peatlands are required in order to derive emission factors for managed peatlands. This study on a drained fen peatland quantified the annual GHG balance (Carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O), methane (CH4), and C exported in crop yield) from spring barley...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Karki S,Elsgaard L,Kandel TP,Lærke PE

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitive analytical methods indicate the presence of hundreds of chemical contaminants in our environment. However, concentration of these pollutants is usually at the low parts per million or parts per billion level. At such low levels, toxicants induce long-term (chronic) rather than short-term (acute) toxicities. ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Giam CS,Holliday TL,Zheng Y,Williams JL,Ahmed MS

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classically distribution coefficient is defined as the ratio of solid total element concentration to surface water total concentration. This coefficient is obtained from the ion measurements in the Keban Dam, Turkey, which supplies water for domestic, irrigation and hydroelectric energy generation purposes. The measur...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Külahci F,Sen Z

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protected areas are important zones due to their natural and cultural assets and their biodiversity preservation functions. Ecotourism activities in these areas have gained great importance for visitors in recent decades. Road networks established in protected areas have ecotourism-related functions, such as providing...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Şakar D,Aydin A,Akay AE

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbal tea is consumed widely in China due to their therapeutic efficacy, mild features, and relatively low cost. To assess the health risk associated with drinking herbal tea, arsenic and seven heavy metals, namely Cu, Zn, Fe, Mn, Cd, Ni, and Pb in eight different types of herbal flowers and their infusions were dete...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhu F,Wang X,Fan W,Qu L,Qiao M,Yao S

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of troposphere ozone (O3) on rice by developing a portable ozone fumigation system and applied to the field in Hanoi, Vietnam. The system was nearly identical to the open top chamber but designed to easily and cheaply assess the O3 sensitivity of local agricultural crops in the actual f...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Van DT,Ishii S,Oanh NT

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) and heavy metals viz. Pb, Cd, Cr, Ni and Fe were measured. Aerosol samples from four different locations in Delhi were collected by High-volume samplers for a period of one year from July 1997 June 1998. Metal concentration was determined by Atomic Absorption Spectromet...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Khillare PS,Balachandran S,Meena BR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metal inputs to coastal Alaska ecosystems are driven by sediment loads from glacial meltwater and river outflows. This study characterized the spatial distribution of 16 major and trace metals in five strata in Kachemak Bay, as well as sediment total organic carbon content and grain size. Homer Harbor, a shallow...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Apeti DA,Hartwell IS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty years of mining and milling activities of the Priargunsky Mining-Chemical Production Company (South-Eastern Siberia, Russia) have resulted in an enrichment of uranium in adjacent steppe soils by a factor of up to 600. A number of attendant pollutants (thorium, arsenic and heavy metals) also have high concentrat...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gongalsky KB

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) have been found to be widely dispersed in the environment and are being considered potentially pathogenic for humans and animals, while reports of their human to human transmission are absent. Water and aerosols are potential transmission modes of NTM to humans. Hospitalized patients ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Dovriki E,Gerogianni I,Petinaki E,Hadjichristodoulou C,Papaioannou A,Gourgoulianis K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil and the dominant plant species in the vicinity of Khatoon Abad copper smelter in Kerman province of Iran are examined to determine contamination, bioavailability, and ecological-health risk of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) based on 23 collected soil samples and 13 Artemisia siebri plant species. Cu, Mo, As, a...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Nematollahi MJ,Keshavarzi B,Zaremoaiedi F,Rajabzadeh MA,Moore F

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate the effects of Cd and Pb on earlier stage of the commercially important scallop (Argopecten purpuratus) in the contamination context of Northern Chile where this specie is farmed, through acute exposure bioassays in embryo-larvae measuring cumulative abnormality (EC50) and juvenile cumu...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Romero-Murillo P,Espejo W,Barra R,Orrego R

更新日期：2017-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The estimation of coverage, i.e., the proportion of the total area in a study region covered by a given target class, is essential to many aspects of environmental monitoring. We analyze and compare the efficiency of different sample-based approaches for the estimation of coverage of different land cover classes from ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Fehrmann L,Seidel D,Krause B,Kleinn C

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to Directive 2002/49, strategic noise maps and their correspondent action plans were carried out in the Autonomous Community of Navarre, Spain. Six strategic noise maps were produced for 120 km of major roads as well as a strategic noise map for the Agglomeration of the Region of Pamplona (ARP) with a popula...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Arana M,Martin RS,Nagore I,Pérez D

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed concentration levels of particulate matter (PM) in the ambient environment of Ilorin metropolis, Nigeria, during haze episodes. Meteorological data (wind speed and direction, rainfall data, sunshine data, relative humidity and temperature) were obtained. Aerocet 531S particle counter (MetOne Instru...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Adeniran JA,Aremu AS,Saadu YO,Yusuf RO

更新日期：2017-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The existing data on the species composition of zooplankton and grazing intensities of crustacean plankton are discussed in the light of trophic status, particularly in the Dutch lakes of varying trophy. Several species of rotifers in northern Europe and North America are considered to indicate eutrophic environments....

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gulati RD

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1986 and 2001, thirty-nine lakes in southwestern New Brunswick in Atlantic Canada were surveyed for acid precipitation-related water quality changes. Most of the study lakes are located on granite bedrock and represent the most acid sensitive lakes in the province. Between 1987 and 1992, hydrogen ion depositio...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pilgrim W,Clair TA,Choate J,Hughes R

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fugitive emissions from a slagging fixed-bed coal-gasification pilot plant were analyzed by flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometry, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry for trace metal and trace organic species. Analysis of the size distributions of airborne particulate matter inside the plant showed an ab...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Osborn JF,Santhanam S,Davidson CI,Flotard RD,Stetter JR

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the importance of markets and fairs for the commerce of medicinal plants, an ethnobotanical study was undertaken at the Caruaru Fair (Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil) to compare the richness of species sold and their values of relative importance (RI) using two datasets collected with a 4-year interval. The seas...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Monteiro JM,Ramos MA,Araújo Ede L,Amorim EL,Albuquerque UP

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia is an important water quality variable, which in excess, can be detrimental to waterways and their ecosystems. In the Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program in South-east Queensland ammonia is monitored monthly, however, often more than 50% of the ammonia observations in Moreton Bay are below detection limit, mak...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Toscas PJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for the residual pendimethalin in soil and vegetable samples was developed. The method is based on extraction of pendimethalin from samples using microwave-assisted solvent extraction (MASE) with acetone, ethanol, and water as extraction solvent. Extracted pendimethalin samples were analyzed by high-performan...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Shah J,Jan MR,Shehzad FU,Ara B

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanistic modeling of how algal species produce metabolites (e.g., taste and odor compounds geosmin and 2-methyl isoborneol (2-MIB)) as a biological response is currently not well understood. However, water managers and water utilities using these reservoirs often need methods for predicting metabolite production, s...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Bruder S,Babbar-Sebens M,Tedesco L,Soyeux E

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycaemia, a classical indicator of stress, xanthine oxidase and aldehyde oxidase which are involved in phase I detoxication were investigated in two different fish species from two rivers with different pollution levels in the Western Niger-Delta. Four sampling zones covering the entire lengths of Warri and Ethiope R...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Isamah GK,Asagba SO

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epiphytic lichen biodiversity (LB) distribution was evaluated in a 1000 km2 area in Tuscany (Central Italy). In the same area, a survey was performed to monitor tropospheric ozone (O3) phytotoxic effects using tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum) cv. Bel-W3 (O3 supersensitive) and cv. Bel-B (O3 resistant) as bioindicato...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lorenzini G,Landi U,Loppi S,Nali C

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A majority of the research on forest fragmentation is primarily focused on animal groups rather than on tree communities because of the complex structural and functional behavior of the latter. In this study, we show that forest fragmentation provokes surprisingly rapid and profound alterations in tropical tree commun...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Giriraj A,Murthy MS,Beierkuhnlein C

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sewage sludge may be used as an agricultural fertilizer, but the practice has been criticized because sludge may contain trace elements and pathogens. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of total and pseudototal extractants of Cu, Fe, Mn, and Zn, and to compare the results with the bioavailable conc...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Nogueirol RC,de Melo WJ,Bertoncini EI,Alleoni LR

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00