Trichloroacetic acid as additional factor contributing to desertification in southern Africa.

abstract：:A major ecological challenge facing Lake Victoria basin is the influx of chemical contaminants from domestic, hospital, and industrial effluents. Determined levels of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in wastewater and sludge from selected wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Kenya are presented and their daily discharge...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chirikona F,Filipovic M,Ooko S,Orata F

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Complex optical properties, such as non-pigment suspension and colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM), make it difficult to achieve accurate estimations of remotely sensed chlorophyll a (Chla) content of inland turbidity. Recent attempts have been made to estimate Chla based on red and near-infrared regions where non...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wang X,Gong Z,Pu R

更新日期：2018-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure using pre-column trimethylsilyl derivatization and gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry (GC/MS) was developed and applied in determining trace estrogens in complex matrix. Main conditions were optimized, including pH value, salinity of water sample, elution reagents, clean procedure, derivative solvent an...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhou Y,Zhou J,Xu Y,Zha J,Ma M,Wang Z

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:The biogeochemical and ecological assessment of the industrial city territory including urban soils and trees was carried out. Chemical (macroelement and microelement) composition of the city soils, morphological and biochemical properties of the linden leaves, possible impact of de-icing salts on soil and tree state,...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ermakov V,Perelomov L,Khushvakhtova S,Tyutikov S,Danilova V,Safonov V

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface mining disturbances have attracted attention globally due to extensive influence on topography, land use, ecosystems, and human populations in mineral-rich regions. We analyzed a time series of Landsat satellite imagery to produce a 28-year disturbance history for surface coal mining in a segment of eastern US...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Li J,Zipper CE,Donovan PF,Wynne RH,Oliphant AJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the quality of 31 urban soils in Pisa by analyzing total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHs), Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn, and the platinum group elements (PGEs). The risk was evaluated by the geological accumulation index (I geo) and the enrichment factor (EF). Results were compared with those obtained from ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Cardelli R,Vanni G,Marchini F,Saviozzi A

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Achieving better monitoring and radiation risk assessment is among the main issues in environmental studies. In this regard, natural radioactivity measurements in sediments can provide useful information about the environmental transport mechanism and about the sources of radionuclides. Anzali wetland, as the study ar...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Darabi-Golestan F,Hezarkhani A,Zare MR

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to assess the relationship between chemical and microbial contamination of groundwater sources and a range of potential hazards in two peri-urban areas of Kisumu, Kenya where shallow wells and pit latrines are widely used. From 1998 to 2004, 263 samples were taken from 61 groundwater sources and tested...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wright JA,Cronin A,Okotto-Okotto J,Yang H,Pedley S,Gundry SW

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uses of wastewater drives significant economic activity, supports countless livelihoods particularly those for developing countries. While using wastewater, the challenge is to identify practical, affordable safeguards that do not threaten the health of users. In Yanbu Al-Sinaiyah, treated sewage effluent (TSE) is use...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ahmad M,Bajahlan AS,Miran MM

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:The present study compares the distribution and nature of heavy metals in composts from 12 cities of India, prepared from different types of processed urban solid wastes, namely mixed wastes (MWC), partially segregated wastes (PSWC), and segregated bio-wastes (BWC). Compost samples were physically fractionated by wet ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Saha JK,Panwar NR,Coumar MV

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groundwater is a globally important, valuable resource for human life and economic development. Despite its importance, it is often misused and rarely well managed. Delineation of polluted zone attains significance especially when the pollution affects the human health. Delineation can be done by many approaches: proc...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： R R,G S

更新日期：2019-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Fishers' local ecological knowledge (LEK) is an additional tool to obtain information about cetaceans, regarding their local particularities, fishing interactions, and behavior. However, this knowledge could vary in depth of detail according to the level of interaction that fishers have with a specific species. This s...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Manzan MF,Lopes PF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inadequate knowledge of baseline conditions challenges ability for monitoring programs to detect pollution in rivers, especially where there are natural sources of contaminants. Here, we use paleolimnological data from a flood-prone lake ("SD2", informal name) in the Slave River Delta (SRD, Canada), ∼ 500 km downstrea...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Elmes MC,Wiklund JA,Van Opstal SR,Wolfe BB,Hall RI

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, an increased tendency to consume meals at dining facilities outside the home has been highlighted; moreover, meals supplied in food businesses have been involved in many foodborne disease outbreaks. Therefore, microbial air contamination in food processing facilities could be a concern and an inc...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Osimani A,Aquilanti L,Tavoletti S,Clementi F

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation pattern of Solid Waste has not been identified in most of the developing world. Investigation on the generation of waste in Ilorin, shows that the generation pattern differs from most acclaimed pattern of the developed world. By far, leaf waste constitutes the most generated waste. However, the investig...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Adedibu AA

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute salinity tolerance of three tropical freshwater cladoceran species, M. macleayi, C. rigaudii and D. brachyurum was determined. The existence of these species represented new records for Trinidad and Tobago, a tropical Caribbean island. It has a large oil based industry, in which, the primary effluent (saline...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mohammed A,Agard JB

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jordan relies heavily on reservoirs building and development to cope with water supply challenges, where monitoring and assessment of reservoir water quality are critically important for the sustainable use of these water supplies. Mujib Dam is an important water supply source in central western Jordan. Evaluation of ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Al-Taani AA,El-Radaideh NM,Al Khateeb WM,Al Bsoul A

更新日期：2018-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Populus davidiana, Leuchtenbergia principis, and Pinus tabulaeformis are important greening tree species with a cosmopolitan distribution. However, the stoichiometric characteristics and element reserves of stands of these three species are not particularly clear. In this study, we conducted a plot-level investigation...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Cao Y,Wang B,Wei T,Ma H

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of urbanization and predicting future growth is now essential for sustainable urban planning and policy making. This study explores future urban expansion in the rapidly growing region of eastern lowland Nepal. We used the hybrid cellular automata-Markov (CA-Markov) model, whi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Rimal B,Keshtkar H,Sharma R,Stork N,Rijal S,Kunwar R

更新日期：2019-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) System, which embodies the "prevention principle" of the environmental law, is an important tool for environmental protection. This tool has a private importance for Turkey since it is a developing country, and it entered the Turkish law in 1983 with the Environmental Law. Bes...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Coşkun AA,Turker O

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two strains of Pseudomonas species (B2 and D5) selected from an array of lead solubilizing and accumulating bacteria obtained from the effluent contaminated soil samples of a battery manufacturing factory were studied. Increase in pH between 4.0 and 6.0 favoured the growth of isolates: Peak log10 cfu mL(-1) values of ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ekundayo EO,Killham K

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring and assessment of the coastal aquifers are becoming a worldwide concern for the need of additional and sustainable water resources to satisfy demographic growth and economic development. A hydrochemical and geoelectrical investigation was conducted in the El-Omayed area in the northwestern coast of Egypt. T...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Atwia MG,Masoud AA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, an analysis was performed on the concentrations of the trace elements Al, As, Ba, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, V, and Zn in muscle of two carnivorous and one planktivorous fish species collected at Todos os Santos Bay (BTS). The accumulation order of the trace elements in Lutjanus analis was Al >Zn >...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： de Santana CO,de Jesus TB,de Aguiar WM,de Jesus Sant'anna Franca-Rocha W,Soares CA

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquatic environmental pollution may cause biodiversity loss. Thus, monitoring studies are very important because fish health reflects both quality and sustainability of the environment, as well as of the individuals that live there. In the present report, genetic biomarkers (piscine micronucleus test; comet assay with...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ramsdorf WA,Vicari T,de Almeida MI,Artoni RF,Cestari MM

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engineered structures in the open ocean are becoming more frequent with the expansion of the marine renewable energy industry and offshore marine aquaculture. Floating engineered structures function as artificial patch reefs providing novel and relatively stable habitat structure not otherwise available in the pelagic...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Sheehan EV,Bridger D,Nancollas SJ,Pittman SJ

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Kimpo metropolitan landfill has received various kinds of wastes since January 1992. The leachate level was measured to be 10.3 m in May 1995 and the level increased to 12.2 m in August 1996. Therefore, to prove the reason for the increasing leachate level, we calibrated hydraulic conductivity of each waste and interm...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Dho NY,Koo JK,Lee SR

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the rapid advancement of industrialization without effective supervision, industrial aquatic toxic metal (TM) emissions pose threats to human health in China. Due to differences in socioeconomic development, the regional disparity of industrial aquatic TM emissions is obvious nationwide. In this study, the human ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Huang Y,Zhou B,Han R,Lu X,Li S,Li N

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00