Soil heavy metal contamination in an industrial area: analysis of the data collected during a decade.

abstract：:The rapidly developing Asian countries may face threatening environmental contamination, that however remains largely unassessed. We studied persistent trace elements in three wetlands, Poyang Lake, relatively unpolluted, and Tai Lake, and Pearl River Delta, selected as hotspots of pollution in Central China. We adopt...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhang Y,Ruan L,Fasola M,Boncompagni E,Dong Y,Dai N,Gandini C,Orvini E,Ruiz X

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The water quality index (WQI) is an important tool for water resource management and planning. However, it has major disadvantages: the generation of chemical waste, is costly, and time-consuming. In order to overcome these drawbacks, we propose to simplify this index determination by replacing traditional analytical ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Alves EM,Rodrigues RJ,Dos Santos Corrêa C,Fidemann T,Rocha JC,Buzzo JLL,de Oliva Neto P,Núñez EGF

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Solvent extraction is recommended as a suitable method for the removal of heavy metals from the waste waters of the chemical and electronic industries. Common extractants are organic compounds with molecular mass 200-450, almost insoluble in water (5-50 ppm), that selectively extract metals from aqueous solutions. On ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Cerná M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By the method of P fractionation, we examined sedimentary P fractions in Lake Dianchi before and during cyanobacterial blooms, namely in April 2004 and August 2004, respectively. In this study, the whole lake is divided into four areas to discuss P fractions in sediment and the relationship between them and water qual...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hu J,Shen Q,Liu Y,Liu J

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:Delhi is one of the many megacities struggling with punishing levels of pollution from industrial, residential, and transportation sources. Over the years, pollution abatement in Delhi has become an important constituent of state policies. In the past one decade a lot of policies and regulations have been implemented ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mohan M,Dagar L,Gurjar BR

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research paper focuses on agricultural constructions, a special type of constructions with an important role in industry and agriculture. Food production is an important social factor that is vital to human survival, so its qualitative aspect is a key determinant of living standards and is also important in terms...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Švajlenka J,Kozlovská M,Pošiváková T

更新日期：2019-07-10 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：: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：: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 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：:A water quality monitoring network (WQMN) must be designed so as to adequately protect the water quality in a catchment. Although a simulated annealing (SA) method was previously applied to design a WQMN, the SA method cannot ensure the solution it obtained is the global optimum. Therefore, two new linear optimization...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kao JJ,Li PH,Hu WS

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Electrofishing is widely used to monitor fish species composition and relative abundance in streams and lakes. According to standard protocols, multiple segments are selected in a body of water to monitor population relative abundance as the ratio of total catch to total sampling effort. The standard protocol provides...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Miranda LE

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyphosate (GLYP), the globally most important herbicide, may have effects in various compartments of the environment such as soil and water. Although laboratory studies showed fast microbial degradation and a low leaching potential, it is often detected in various environmental compartments, but pathways are unknown....

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gros P,Meissner R,Wirth MA,Kanwischer M,Rupp H,Schulz-Bull DE,Leinweber P

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the temporal dynamics (monthly/tidal) of water temperature, salinity, chlorophyll-a (chlo-a), suspended particulate matter (SPM), particulate organic carbon (POC), and dissolved nutrients in the surf zone of Monte Hermoso sandy beach, Argentina. We also aimed to understand the ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Menéndez MC,Fernández Severini MD,Buzzi NS,Piccolo MC,Perillo GM

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The river Ganges has been one of the major recipients of industrial effluents in India. The present paper deals with the study related to occurrence and bioaccumulation of heavy metals (Cu, Cr, Cd, Pb, Zn) in the riverine water, sediment, and the muscles of two cat fish species, Channa punctatus (C. punctatus) and Aor...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gupta A,Rai DK,Pandey RS,Sharma B

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:Particles in a dental office can be generated by a number of instruments, such as air-turbine handpieces, low-speed handpieces, ultrasonic scalers, bicarbonate polishers, polishing cups, as well as drilling and air sprays inside the oral cavity. This study examined the generation of particles during dental drilling an...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Sotiriou M,Ferguson SF,Davey M,Wolfson JM,Demokritou P,Lawrence J,Sax SN,Koutrakis P

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyze polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) at an urban site in Seoul, South Korea, 24-hr ambient air PM2.5 samples were collected during five intensive sampling periods between November 1998 and December 1999. To determine the PAH size distribution, 3-day size-segregated aerosol samples were also collected in ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Park SS,Kim YJ,Kang CH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation was performed to measure concentrations of major and trace elements in surficial wetland sediments in the southern Tibetan Plateau in order to assess the sediment quality. Results showed that most of elements have concentrations comparable to those of the Tibetan surface soil (TSS) except for As, Ca, ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhang Q,Kang S,Li C,Chen F,Boukalova Z,Cerný I

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The River Nzoia basin is the main source of water for domestic, agricultural, and industrial activities. The levels of the priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in water, soil, and sediments of River Nzoia during two seasons are reported. The physico-chemical parameters gave levels that were within the maxi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Basweti JK,Nawiri MP,Nyambaka HN

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bivariate frequency analysis of extreme rainfall and runoff is crucial for water resource planning and management in a river basin. This study is aimed at accounting for uncertainties in bivariate analysis of extreme rainfall-runoff frequency in the Taleghan watershed, one of the major watersheds in northern Iran, usi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Dodangeh E,Shahedi K,Solaimani K,Shiau JT,Abraham J

更新日期：2019-01-12 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 magnitude and distribution of European Community (EC) regulated List I and List II metals and metalloids have been investigated in two lowland river systems in East Anglia, U.K. A combination of sediment and water quality data identified municipal sewage treatment work discharges as the main metal input sources to...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Bubb IM,Lester JN

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：:This paper presents a Decision Support System (DSS) approach developed in the context of the Copernicus project entitled System for Water Monitoring and Sustainable Management based on Ground Stations and Satellite Images (WATERMAN). The main objective of WATERMAN is the monitoring and management of the Strymon River ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Manos B,Bournaris T,Silleos N,Antonopoulos V,Papathanasiou J

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years the concern about the behaviour of oxides of nitrogen (NOx: NO, NO2) in atmosphere has increased considerably. NOx undergoes various complex atmospheric reactions to generate secondary pollutants which are known to cause severe adverse effects on human health. This work focuses on the study of physical...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lal S,Patil RS

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents an approach on the evaluation of potential laminar erosion in the Ribeirão Sucuri Grande watershed. It is located in the northeast of the state of Goiás, Brazil, a conservation area under strong anthropogenic pressure. A Mamdani fuzzy inference system was designed using linguistic variables, pertin...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： de Souza JC,Sales JCA,do Nascimento Lopes ER,Roveda JAF,Roveda SRMM,Lourenço RW

更新日期：2019-09-07 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