Evaluating the efficiency of coagulation in the removal of dissolved organic carbon from reservoir water using fluorescence and ultraviolet photometry.

abstract：:Although the Ibirité reservoir (an urban tropical eutrophic reservoir) has been the recipient of the discharge of a large volume of raw urban sewage, the key cause of ecosystem degradation has been historically solely attributed to the discharge of effluents from an oil refinery. This fact motivated an investigation t...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mozeto AA,Yamada TM,de Morais CR,do Nascimento MR,Fadini PS,Torres RJ,Sueitt AP,de Faria BM

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the variation of sewage quality was investigated and the active fraction of different microbial functional groups in biofilm was quantified in a 5.6-km trunk sewer line. The sewage quality including suspended solids, biochemical oxygen demand, total chemical oxygen demand (COD), total nitrogen, total Kj...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pai TY,Chen CL,Chung H,Ho HH,Shiu TW

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new spectrophotometric method is reported for the determination of nanomolar level of malachite green in surface water samples. The method is based on the catalytic effect of silver nanoparticles on the oxidation of malachite green by hexacyanoferrate (III) in acetate-acetic acid medium. The absorbance is measured a...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Sahraei R,Farmany A,Mortazavi SS,Noorizadeh H

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential threat of both metals and antibiotics to the environment and human health has raised significant concerns in the last decade. Metal-resistant and antibiotic-resistant bacteria are found in most environments, including water, and the risk posed to humans and animals due to the spread of antibiotic-resista...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Squadrone S

更新日期：2020-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Brominated organic and inorganic by-products are generated during ozonation of groundwater containing high bromide concentrations. This study measured concentrations of bromate, bromoform, bromoacetic acids, bromoacetonitriles, bromoacetone, 2,4-dibromophenol and aldehyde generated by ozonation. The potential mutageni...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Huang WJ,Chang CY,Shih FH

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study sought to analyze heavy metal (Pb, Zn, Cu, Ni, Mn, and Fe) pollution status in the waters of Aibi Lake in northwest China through the use of an applied comprehensive pollution index, health risk model, and multivariate statistical analyses in combination with the lake's land use types. Results showed that (...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhaoyong Z,Xiaodong Y,Shengtian Y

更新日期：2018-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a questionnaire survey of school drinking water quality of 42 schools in Pingtung County was conducted according to the water sources, treatment facilities, location of school as well as different grade levels. Among them, 45% of schools used tap water as the main source of drinking water, and the schoo...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chung PL,Chung CY,Liao SW,Miaw CL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The applicability of the headspace liquid phase microextraction and gas chromatography (HS-LPME/GC) for the expeditious and reliable screening of 68 well water samples for selected fuel oxygenates compounds, viz. methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), tertiary-amyl methyl ether (TAME), ethyl tertiary-butyl ether (ETBE) a...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kaykhaii M,Mirbaloochzahi MR

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:Metal uptake potentials of Pseudomonas aeruginosa CA207Ni, Burkholderia cepacia CA96Co, Rhodococcus sp. AL03Ni, and Corynebacterium kutscheri FL108Hg were studied to determine their competence in detoxification of toxic metals during growth. Metabolism-dependent metal biouptake of the bacteria revealed appreciable upt...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Oyetibo GO,Ilori MO,Obayori OS,Amund OO

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied atmospheric deposition of heavy metals in Wuxi, China, using moss (Haplocladium microphyllum and H. angustifolium) as a biomonitoring agent. Moss samples were collected from 49 sites determined by a systematic sampling method. The top layer of soil on each site was also sampled. No significant correlation (...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Yan Y,Zhang Q,Wang GG,Fang YM

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focuses on mercury (Hg) bioaccumulation in Indian cat fish, Wallagoo attu and Mystus aor, from different rivers. Methyl mercury (MeHg) concentrations were determined in muscle tissue of two different parts, ventral and dorsal part, of each species and the levels of organic mercury were co-related with lipid...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pal M,Ghosh M

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:The increasing order of the mean concentrations of Cd, Cu, and Zn in the tissues of Mugil cephalus of seven coastal lagoons of Sinaloa State (NW Mexico) was liver > gills > muscle, while for Pb it was gills > muscle ≥ liver. There were no differences between the mean concentrations of Cd and Pb of the three tissues de...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Frías-Espericueta MG,Osuna-López JI,Jiménez-Vega MA,Castillo-Bueso D,Muy-Rangel MD,Rubio-Carrasco W,López-López G,Izaguirre-Fierro G,Voltolina D

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the effects of natural and anthropogenic watershed disturbances on methyl mercury (MeHg) concentration in bulk zooplankton from boreal Shield lakes. MeHg in zooplankton was monitored for three years in nine lakes impacted by deforestation, in nine lakes impacted by wildfire, and in twenty lakes with undist...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Garcia E,Carignan R,Lean DR

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, the process capability index is developed by assuming that the process output data are independent and follow normal distribution. However, in most environmental cases, the process data are autocorrelated. The autocorrelated process, if unrecognized as an independent process, can lead to erroneous decis...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pan JN,Li CI,Chen FY

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades, disposal of hazardous material has become a challenging task especially in case of landfills where leaching out of waste is possible. In such cases, an efficient and economical liner system using locally available material is very essential. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study the suita...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gopinath R,Poopathi R,Vasanthavigar M,Arun R,Mahadevan M

更新日期：2018-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tributyltin (TBT) contamination is still recorded in the environment even after its ban in antifouling paints. Since most biomonitors of TBT contamination, through imposex evaluation, are hard-bottom gastropods, the identification of soft-bottom sentinels has become useful for regions where rocky shores and coral reef...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Petracco M,Camargo RM,Berenguel TA,de Arruda NC,del Matto LA,Amado LL,Corbisier TN,Castro ÍB,Turra A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquatic ecosystems are fundamentally altered by nutrient enrichment, and effective monitoring tools are needed to detect biological responses especially in the early stages of eutrophication. We tested the utility of biological trait analysis (BTA) to quantify the temporal responses of nematodes inhabiting salt marsh ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mitwally HM,Fleeger JW

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present statistical analysis was the assessment of the relation between time series of environmental factors and of frequencies of diseases of the respiratory system in pre-school children. During about one year, daily measurements of air pollutants and climatic variables were taken. During the same...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Helfenstein U,Ackermann-Liebrich U,Braun-Fahrländer C,Wanner HU

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the microbiological changes that occur during the maturation of overburden that has been disturbed by surface mining of coal, a surface mining-disturbed overburden unit in southeastern Ohio, USA was characterized. Overburden from the same unit that had been disturbed for 37 and 16 years were compared to undi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Poncelet DM,Cavender N,Cutright TJ,Senko JM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change, higher levels of natural resource demands, and changing land use will likely lead to changes in vegetation configuration in the mountain regions. The aim of this study was to determine if the vegetation cover and composition have changed in the Swedish region of the Scandinavian Mountain Range, based o...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hedenås H,Christensen P,Svensson J

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Landfill methane (CH4) emissions have been cited as one of the anthropogenic gas releases that can and should be controlled to reduce global climate change. This article reviews recent research that identifies ways to enhance microbial consumption of the gas in the aerobic portion of a landfill cover. Use of these met...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hilgeri H,Humer M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughfall and open field bulk precipitation were measured at three coniferous sites during 1995-2002 in the framework of ICP Integrated Monitoring and at five coniferous sites during 1996-2002 in the framework of ICP Forests (Level II). The coniferous canopies acted as a sink for nitrate and ammonium and as a source...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pajuste K,Frey J,Asi E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data were collected from 60 boatable sites using an electrofishing design that permitted comparisons of the effects of designs and distances on fish assemblage metrics. Sites were classified a priori as Run-of-the-River (ROR) or Restricted Flow (RF). Data representing four different design options (i.e., 1000 and 2000...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Flotemersch JE,Blocksom KA

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring and mapping shrimp farms, including their impact on land cover and land use, is critical to the sustainable management and planning of coastal zones. In this work, a methodology was proposed to set up a cost-effective and reproducible procedure that made use of satellite remote sensing, object-based classif...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Virdis SG

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Airborne lead levels were assessed in nine workshops, three each from battery, electronic repair, and welding sources within the Kumasi Metropolis in Ghana. Samples were collected at 0, 2.5, and 5.0 m away from the emission source at the workshops during working hours and another at 5.0 m during break hours. Airborne ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Dartey E,Adimado AA,Agyarko K

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel carbon paste electrode modified with graphene oxide nanosheets and an ionic liquid (n-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluoro phosphate) was fabricated. The electrochemical study of the modified electrode, as well as its efficiency for voltammetric oxidation of bisphenol A, is described. The electrode was also em...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Beitollahi H,Tajik S

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation aimed to assess the impacts of integrated industrial wastewater (IIW) irrigation on soil properties in the rural area of Haridwar, India, under cultivation of a leafy vegetable, i.e., spinach (Spinacia oleracea). Based on the field data of two cropping years (2016-2017 and 2017-2018), soil character...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kumar V,Thakur RK,Kumar P

更新日期：2020-10-17 00:00:00