Determination of gaseous polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by a simple direct method using thermal desorption-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

abstract：:Phytopigment estimation has a considerable interest in the evaluation of freshwater bodies' quality, because it takes into account the synergistic effect of nutrients like phosphorus or nitrogen on algal growth producing eutrophication. Furthermore, their increasing concentration constitutes the first step in the form...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Devesa-Rey R,Moldes AB,Díaz-Fierros F,Barral MT

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical soil properties between active shrimp ponds and abandoned ones on the Bangkok soil series were compared, at Ranote District, Songkhla Province in southern Thailand. Soil samples were collected at depth intervals of 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40 and 40-50 cm from pond bottoms at the same ponds used in a former stu...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Towatana P,Voradaj C,Panapitukkul N

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：:Dissolved oxygen is a critical component of river water quality. This study investigated average weekly dissolved oxygen (AWDO) and average weekly water temperature (AWT) in the Savannah River during 2015 and 2016 using data from the Intelligent River® sensor network. Weekly data and seasonal summary statistics reveal...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Post CJ,Cope MP,Gerard PD,Masto NM,Vine JR,Stiglitz RY,Hallstrom JO,Newman JC,Mikhailova EA

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to an increase in water consumption in the industrial sector and within the Brazilian population, surface water that receives wastewater from industries, domestic sewage, agricultural industries, and sewage treatment stations can pollute water bodies when not properly treated. The water quality has been linked to ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Düsman E,Luzza M,Savegnago L,Lauxen D,Vicentini VE,Tonial IB,Sauer TP

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the acceleration of urbanization, the heat island effect, as a prominent feature of urban climate, has attracted more attention. Differences in urban landscape patterns have an essential impact on the urban thermal environment. The objective of the study is to examine the impact of urban landscape types and patte...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Li B,Shi X,Wang H,Qin M

更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Two sets of samples from Lake Päijänne and one from Lake Ladoga were used to examine the relations between the meiofauna and environmental variables. The most obvious indicators of an unpolluted environment were, in order of importance, the true meiofauna/total meiofauna ratio, the proportion of Aeolosomatidae, the pr...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Särkkä J

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stormwater wet detention ponds have been a commonly employed best management practice for stormwater management throughout the world for many years. In the past, the trophic state index values have been used to evaluate seasonal changes in water quality and rank lakes within a region or between several regions; yet, t...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Tahsin S,Chang NB

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of continuous polluting discharges in the U.K. was placed in a framework of statistically based legislation nearly 10 years ago. Both discharge standards and desired river quality class objectives are assessed within a probabilistic system of pollution control whereby a minimum level of 95 percent complian...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Crabtree RW,Crockett CP,Ellis JC

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature from 12 to 22°C and salinity from 30.5 to 7.6‰ increased accumulation of copper in Hediste diversicolor. Copper accumulated ranged from 85.83 to 217.14 μg g(-1). Sediments reduced accumulation of copper under temperature-salinity combinations. Accumulated copper ranged from 90.19 to 153.26 μg g(-1).However...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ozoh PT

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：:Trichodesmium, a marine cyanobacterium, plays a significant role in the global nitrogen cycle due to its nitrogen fixing ability. Large patches of Trichodesmium blooms were observed in the coastal waters, off Goa during spring intermonsoon (SIM) of 2014-2018. Zeaxanthin was the dominant pigment in the bloom region. He...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Dias A,Kurian S,Thayapurath S

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological monitoring is a complementary component of the overall environmental management and monitoring program of any Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report. The monitoring method should be developed for each project phase and allow for periodic reporting and assessment of compliance with the environmental co...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Sahin S,Kurum E

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of future management and policy options based on different assumptions provide a mechanism to examine possible outcomes and especially their likely benefits and consequences. The San Pedro River in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico is an area that has undergone rapid changes in land use and cover, and subsequently is...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kepner WG,Semmens DJ,Bassett SD,Mouat DA,Goodrich DC

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geochemical evolution of groundwater in the coastal area of the Thriassion Plain, Attica, Greece, has been investigated using major and trace elements of chemical analyses. The groundwater of good quality (total dissolved solids TDS between 400 and 1100 mg/l) has been found in the Plio-Pleistocene sediments up to ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hermides D,Kyriazis D,Makri P,Ermidou A

更新日期：2020-08-03 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：:One year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill accident, semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs) and polyethylene devices (PEDs) were deployed in wetland areas and coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) to monitor polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The measured PAH levels with the PEDs in coastal areas were 0....

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hong Y,Wetzel D,Pulster EL,Hull P,Reible D,Hwang HM,Ji P,Rifkin E,Bouwer E

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Concentrations of heavy metals were determined in the water column (including the sea-surface microlayer, subsurface, mid-depth and bottom water) and sediments from Singapore's coastal environment. The concentration ranges for As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn in the seawater dissolved phase (DP) were 0.34-2.04, 0.013-0.1...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Cuong DT,Karuppiah S,Obbard JP

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two multiresidue methods were developed to determine pesticides in air collected in California. Pesticides were trapped using XAD-4 resin and extracted with ethyl acetate. Based on an analytical method from the University of California Davis Trace Analytical Laboratory, pesticides were detected by analyzing the extrac...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hengel M,Lee P

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depending on the environmental conditions, surface sediments can retain all the contaminants present and provide a record of the anthropic activities affecting the aquatic environment. In order to analyze the impacts on reservoirs, surface sediments were collected in three characteristic regions (riverine, transitiona...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Frascareli D,Cardoso-Silva S,de Oliveira Soares-Silva Mizael J,Rosa AH,Pompêo MLM,López-Doval JC,Moschini-Carlos V

更新日期：2018-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined approach consisting of monitoring and thermodynamic modeling was used in order to calculate the concentration of trace element species in water samples of a broad salinity range and to explain their chemical behaviour. The study was performed on water samples (fresh, marine, hyper-saline) taken from the are...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Tepavitcharova S,Todorov T,Rabadjieva D,Dassenakis M,Paraskevopoulou V

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past, scientific research has predicted a decrease in the effectiveness of Bt cotton due to the rise of secondary and other sucking pests. It is suspected that once the primary pest is brought under control, secondary pests have a chance to emerge due to the lower pesticide applications in Bt cotton cultivars. ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhao JH,Ho P,Azadi H

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a rapid and effective dispersive solid-phase microextraction (d-SPME) method was developed to preconcentrate Pd from aqueous extract of soil samples by slotted quartz tube-flame atomic absorption spectrometry (SQT-FAAS). The unique properties of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) were used to directly isolat...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Aylin Kasa N,Sel S,Özkan BÇ,Bakırdere S

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The St. Thomas East End Reserves or STEER is located on the southeastern end of the island of St. Thomas, USVI. The STEER contains extensive mangroves and seagrass beds, along with coral reefs, lagoons, and cays. Within the watershed, however, are a large active landfill, numerous marinas, resorts, various commercial ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pait AS,Hartwell SI,Mason AL,Warner RA,Jeffrey CF,Hoffman AM,Apeti DA,Pittman SJ

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study considers the effectiveness of the monitoring of toxic trace elements in various media from a polluted river estuary over a period of 15 years, using the same analytical techniques, facilities and, in some cases, the same operators. It shows that reliable comparisons can be made for monitoring waters, sedim...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Noller BN,Bloom H,Dineen RD,Johnson MG,Hammond RP

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the susceptibility patterns to 15 different antibiotics and six heavy metals in Aeromonas spp. and Pseudomonas spp. isolated from Iskenderun Bay, Turkey (northeast Mediterranean Sea). A high percentage of Aeromonas isolates showed resistance to cefazolin (66.6%) and trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole (66.6%). A...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Matyar F,Akkan T,Uçak Y,Eraslan B

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To add data on trace metal contamination of Humboldt penguins in the South Pacific, levels of trace metals (As, Hg, Pb, Cu, Zn, and Cd) and porphyrins (copro-, uro-, and proto-) in excreta of Humboldt penguins that inhabit some important nesting sites on the northern coast of Chile were determined. Fresh excreta were ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Celis JE,Espejo W,González-Acuña D,Jara S,Barra R

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was undertaken to examine the nature of particulate chalk dust settled on classroom floor during traditional teaching with dusting and non-dusting chalks on two types of boards viz. rough and smooth. Settling chalk particles were collected for 30 min during teaching in glass Petri plates placed in classrooms...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Majumdar D,William SP

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study area Rameswaram, a holy island, is famous for the sacred Ramanathaswamy temple, which cements people of the country regardless of their place, residence, or their religion or creed. This coastal tract is experiencing a chronic fresh water shortage, despite a few spring sources. The study area is selected for...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ramachandramoorthy T,Sivasankar V,Subramanian V

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00