Effect of wastewater irrigation on vegetables in relation to bioaccumulation of heavy metals and biochemical changes.

abstract：:Two PCP-degrading bacterial strains, Bacillus cereus (ITRC-S6) and Serratia marcescens (ITRC-S7) were used for the treatment of pulp and paper mill effluent at conditions; 1.0% glucose and 0.5% peptone at 30 +/- 1 degrees C at 120 rpm for 168 h of incubation. These two bacterial strains effectively reduced colour (45-...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chandra R,Raj A,Yadav S,Patel DK

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work aims to assess the spatial distribution and concentration of sulfur in the topsoil layer and to determine the relationships between sulfur concentration, soil pH, soil electrical conductivity, and plant cover at the reforested site of the former sulfur mine (Southern Poland). Soil samples were collected from...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Likus-Cieślik J,Pietrzykowski M,Szostak M,Szulczewski M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trees outside forests (TOFs) are an important natural resource that contributes substantially to national biomass and carbon stocks and to the livelihood of people in many regions. Over the last decades, decision makers have become increasingly aware of the importance of TOF, and as a consequence, this tree resource i...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Schnell S,Kleinn C,Ståhl G

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fipronil and 2,4-D are two main pesticides of sugarcane cultivation in Brazil. While pesticides have helped to improve food quality and quantity, the continuous increase in usage has raised concerns over the unintended negative environmental impacts they introduce. Mesocosm systems are used as surrogate ecosystems to ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Goulart BV,Vizioli BC,Espindola ELG,Montagner CC

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil Collembola communities were investigated in spruce forest stands of the High Tatra Mts that had been heavily damaged by a windstorm in November 2004 and subsequently by a wildfire in July 2005. The study focused on the impact of these disturbances and forestry practices on collembolan community distribution and s...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Čuchta P,Miklisová D,Kováč L

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 20 years, increasing dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations have been observed in several rivers and lakes in Europe. This increase has reduced the quality of the aquatic environment. In this study, UV-vis spectroscopy and synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy with a difference of 50 nm between the ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Assaad A,Pontvianne S,Corriou JP,Pons MN

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Excluding the genetic factors, environmental factors, mainly the pollutants, have been implicated in the causation of the majority of cancers. Wastewater originated from health-care sectors such as hospitals may carry vast amounts of carcinogenic and genotoxic chemicals to...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Sharma P,Mathur N,Singh A,Sogani M,Bhatnagar P,Atri R,Pareek S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volunteer-based citizen monitoring has increasingly become part of the natural resources monitoring framework, but it is often unclear whether the data quality from these programs is sufficient for integration with traditional efforts conducted by professional scientists. At present, the biological and physical charac...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gillett DJ,Pondella DJ 2nd,Freiwald J,Schiff KC,Caselle JE,Shuman C,Weisberg SB

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) used extensively over the past 3 decades as flame retardants in most types of polymers, all over the world, have been identified as global pollutants. PBDEs pose various health problems such as thyroid hormone disruption, permanent learning and memory impairment, behavioral chang...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kumari K,Sharma JK,Kanade GS,Kashyap SM,Juwarkar AA,Wate SR

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to evaluate extensively the characterization and identification of major pollutant parameters by paying attention to the organic chemical pollution for unregulated dumping site leachate in Eskişehir/Turkey. The study that is first and only one research has been very important data related with...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Banar M,Ozkan A,Kürkçüoğlu M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study is to evaluate trophic status and its limiting factors in the Renuka Lake, using surface water samples. The water of the lake is found to be slightly alkaline with pH 8.33-8.70 (avg. 8.61 ± 0.1). The turbidity 4.63-6.62 NTU (avg. 5.48 ± 0.63 NTU) indicated low level of clarity in the lake. The Carlso...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kumar P,Mahajan AK,Meena NK

更新日期：2019-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In Cambodia, groundwater has been contaminated with arsenic, and purification of the water is an urgent issue. From 2010 to 2012, an international collaborative project between Japan and Cambodia for developing arsenic-removing technology from well water was conducted and supported by the foundation of New Energy and ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kang Y,Takeda R,Nada A,Thavarith L,Tang S,Nuki K,Sakurai K

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:Seed germination is considered a critical phase in plant development and relatively sensitive to heavy metals. White poplar (Populus alba) trees tend to accumulate Cd and Zn in their tissues. We tested if soil contamination can affect P. alba progeny, reduced seed germination and explored the distribution of mineral e...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Madejón P,Cantos M,Jiménez-Ramos MC,Marañón T,Murillo JM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, an attempt has been made to work out water balance, determine rate of sedimentation and physico-chemical analysis of the lake water. The water balance is carried out using the mass balance equation to account for various input and output components. Sedimentation rates and pattern are estimated using (1...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Singh S,Kumar B,Thakural LN,Galkate R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Air pollution has assumed gigantic proportion killing almost half a million Asians every year. Urban pollution mainly comprises of emissions from buses, trucks, motorcycle other forms of motorized transport and its supporting activities. As Asia's cities continue to expand the number of vehicles have risen resulting i...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Srivastava A,Joseph AE,More A,Patil S

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring networks aiming to assess the state of groundwater quality and detect or predict changes could increase in efficiency when fitted to vulnerability and pollution risk assessment. The main purpose of this paper is to describe a methodology aiming at integrating aquifers vulnerability and actual levels of grou...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Preziosi E,Petrangeli AB,Giuliano G

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The U.S. Department of Energy's (USDOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) is a former nuclear weapon material production and current research facility adjacent to the Savannah River in South Carolina, USA. The purpose of this study was to determine the background radiocesium ((137)Cs) body burden (e.g., from global fallout) f...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gaines KF,Novak JM,Bobryk CW,Blas SA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the Danish NEAREX project the origin and variability of anthropogenic atmospheric CO(2) over the Northeast Atlantic Region (NEAR) has been studied. The project consisted of a combination of experimental and modelling activities. Local volunteers operated CO(2) sampling stations, built at University of Copen...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Geels C,Christensen JH,Hansen AW,Heinemeier J,Kiilsholm S,Larsen NW,Larsen SE,Pedersen T,Sørensen LL,Brandt J,Frohn LM,Djurhuus S

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, COSMO numerical weather prediction model is used to simulate land-sea breeze circulation in the north coast of Oman and to analyze the variability of the PBL depth. Typical summer day 1st August 2009 and winter day 1st January 2009 were simulated and verified by surface observations. The COSMO model was...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Charabi Y,Al-Bulooshi A,Al-Yahyai S

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:In the present study, levels of metal contamination caused by former lead mining area were figured out. For this purpose, Pb, Cd, Cu, Ni, and Mn were determined not only in sediment samples taken from different places of the mining area but also in some plants taken around the mining place. In the digestion of plant s...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Bakırdere S,Bölücek C,Yaman M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recommendations regarding disinfection by-products (DBPs) in pool waters consider the content of trihalomethanes (THMs) and combined chlorine (CC) as indicators of DBPs based on which the health risk for swimmers and staff of pool facility can be determined. However, the content of DBPs in swimming pools depends on ma...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wyczarska-Kokot J,Lempart-Rapacewicz A,Dudziak M,Łaskawiec E

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of multiple sampling gears is indispensible to obtain robust characterizations of fish assemblage structure in species-rich subtropical ecosystems. In this study, such a dependence was demonstrated by characterizing the structure of the high-tide fish assemblage in a subtropical tidal flat ecosystem (the Araçá...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Contente RF,Del Bianco Rossi-Wongtschowski CL

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospheric deposition of the major elements was estimated from throughfall and bulk deposition measurements on 13 plots of the Swiss Long-Term Forest Ecosystem Research (LWF) between 1995 and 2001. Independent estimates of the wet and dry deposition of nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) on these same plots were gained from ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Thimonier A,Schmitt M,Waldner P,Rihm B

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs) were deployed in streams along a gradient of urban land-use intensity in and around six metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Georgia; Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; and Denver-Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2003; and Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas; Milwaukee-Green Bay, Wisconsin; and Portland, Or...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Bryant WL Jr,Goodbred SL

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to assess the variability in soil properties affecting salinity and alkalinity, and to analyze spatial distribution patterns of salinity (EC) and alkalinity (ESP) in the plain, which was used irrigation agriculture with low quality waters. Soil samples were collected from 0-30 cm, 30-...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Cemek B,Güler M,Kiliç K,Demir Y,Arslan H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coastal lagoons are ecologically and economically important environments but a relative low number of studies were carried out in subtropical and permanently closed coastal lagoons. The present study aimed at assessing the temporal and spatial dynamic of trophic relevant water quality parameters in the small, deep and...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hennemann MC,Petrucio MM

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：: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