Emission of mercury to the atmosphere from industrial sources in Poland.

abstract：:Arsenic is one of the naturally occurring heavy metal that has been reported to cause damaging effects on different body organs. This study was aimed to determine the arsenic level in different water sources and investigate the effect of arsenic exposure on risk factors of diabetes mellitus (DM) in human participants ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Rehman K,Fatima F,Akash MSH

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural practices pose threats to biotic diversity in freshwater systems with increasing use of glyphosate-based herbicides for weed control and animal waste for soil amendment becoming common in many regions. Over the past two decades, these particular agricultural trends have corresponded with marked declines i...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lasier PJ,Urich ML,Hassan SM,Jacobs WN,Bringolf RB,Owens KM

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the chemical composition characteristic of pollution in a northern suburb of Nanjing, particle samples were collected by two Andersen cascade impactors from May to July 2013. The positive matrix factorization version 3 (EPA-PMF 3.0) was applied to identify the source contribution of PM2.1 concentrations ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： An J,Duan Q,Wang H,Miao Q,Shao P,Wang J,Zou J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigates the effects of drill cutting discharges on the structure of meiofauna communities in an area of the shelf break at Campos Basin, Southeast Brazil. Drilling activities were operated, in a first phase, with water-based fluid and, in a second phase, with synthetic fluid paraffin-based (NAF-...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Netto SA,Fonseca G,Gallucci F

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agriculture and forestry are the two major land use classes providing sustenance to the human population. With the pace of development, these two land use classes continue to change over time. Land use change is a dynamic process under the influence of multiple drivers including climate change. Therefore, tracing the ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Singh RK,Sinha VSP,Joshi PK,Kumar M

更新日期：2020-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The flow and dispersion of stack-gas emitted from different elevated point source around flow obstacles in an urban environment have been investigated, using computational fluid dynamics models (CFD). The results were compared with the experimental results obtained from the diffusion wind tunnel under different condit...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Yassin MF

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:The San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program (RMP) for Trace Substances is an innovative partnership among a regulatory agency, more than 70 regulated entities, and an independent scientific organization. The institutional arrangement behind the RMP has made the regulatory system increasingly responsive to em...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hoenicke R,Davis JA,Gunther A,Mumley TE,Abu-Saba K,Taberski K

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although medicines are less toxic than other toxicants, increased production and usage of pharmaceuticals have led to many concerns regarding their toxic effects on human and non-target organisms. Additionally, reproductive toxicity after long-term exposure is difficult to anticipate. Tamoxifen (TAM), a selective estr...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Jo M,Lee S,Yoon S,Kim WK

更新日期：2018-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Population growth, urbanization, and changing land use/cover practices are responsible for the loss of ecosystem services of wetlands around the world. The present study investigated wetland degradation that occurred in the Western Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, India. The land use/cover change maps between 2001 and 2016...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Malik M,Rai SC

更新日期：2019-03-04 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：:Soil, rock and water samples were collected from India's oldest coalfield Raniganj to investigate trace metal contamination from mining activity. Our data reveal that trace metal concentration in soil samples lies above the average world soil composition; especially, Cr, Cu, Ni and Zn concentrations exceed the maximum...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Das SK,Chakrapani GJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the benthic macroinvertebrate community in the Arente River (a tributary of the Crati river in the Region of Calabria, Italy) were monitored monthly for 1 year through stratified sampling by habitat (pools and riffles) together with general descriptors of communities structure and the extended biotic index ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gallo L,De Filippis A,Mezzotero A,Voelz NJ,Lucadamo L

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gomti river receives industrial as well as domestic wastes from various drains of Lucknow city. In the process the water and sediment of the river Gomti get contaminated with heavy metals and other pollutants. In the present study, impacts of domestic/industrial wastes on the water and sediment chemistry of river Gomt...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gaur VK,Gupta SK,Pandey SD,Gopal K,Misra V

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：:Efficacious botanical derivatives can provide an alternative to synthetic pesticides for organic farming systems. However, there is lack of information regarding the side effects of organic pesticides on key soil ecological processes. In this study, we investigated the effects of aqueous extracts from Urginea maritima...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Okur N,Tuna AL,Okur B,Altunlu H,Kayikçioğlu HH,Civelek HS

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interrelationships between ventilation rate, indoor air quality, and energy consumption in operation rooms at rest are yet to be understood. We investigate the effect of ventilation rate on indoor air quality indices and energy consumption in ORs at rest. The study investigates the air temperature, relative humidi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lee ST,Liang CC,Chien TY,Wu FJ,Fan KC,Wan GH

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Sediment samples in this study were taken from five typical sites near the outlet of Shekou industrial district of Shenzhen City, China. The concentrations of seven elements including Cr, Cu, Cd, Pb, Hg, Zn, and As were determined respectively by atomic absorption spectrometry or atomic fluorescence spectrometry. The ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wang L,Xu Y,Wen H,Tang M,Zhao G,Han Q,Xu X,Ying M,Hu Z,Xu H

更新日期：2020-11-20 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：: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：:Topsoil removal, compaction, and other practices in urban and industrial landscapes can degrade soil and soil ecosystem services. There is growing interest to remediate these for recreational and residential purposes, and urban waste materials offers potential to improve degraded soils. Therefore, the objective of thi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Carlson J,Saxena J,Basta N,Hundal L,Busalacchi D,Dick RP

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial interpolation methods are widely used to estimate some ecological and environmental parameters that are difficult to measure. One of these parameters is forest site index, which is a demonstration of forest productivity. The aim of this study was to estimate forest site index in a beech forest ecosystem in Tur...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Günlü A,Bulut S,Keleş S,Ercanlı İ

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An animal's suitability as a biomonitor of environmental change can be determined by biological, reproductive and ecological characteristics determined at the class, order and species level. The animal's habitat where the research is to be performed and the form, function and structure of the environmental change bein...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hollamby S,Afema-Azikuru J,Waigo S,Cameron K,Gandolf AR,Norris A,Sikarskie JG

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：:Establishing cause-effect is critical in the field of natural resources where one may want to know the impact of management practices, wildfires, drought, etc. on water quality and quantity, wildlife, growth and survival of desirable trees for timber production, etc. Yet, key obstacles exist when trying to establish c...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gadbury GL,Schreuder HT

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a biodiversity monitoring program conducted in the Ogawa Forest Reserve and its vicinity, situated in a cool temperate region of Japan, identified three different patterns for species richness. Forests of the region are characterized by a mosaic of secondary deciduous stands of various ages scattered am...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Makino S,Goto H,Inoue T,Sueyoshi M,Okabe K,Hasegawa M,Hamaguchi K,Ctanaka H,Okochi I

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in 24 surface sediments from the Dahuofang Reservoir (DHF), the largest man-made lake in Northeast China, were measured. The results showed that the concentrations of 16 US EPA priority PAHs in the sediments ranged from 323 to 912 ng/g dry weight with a mean concentration of 592...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lin T,Qin Y,Zheng B,Li Y,Chen Y,Guo Z

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to investigate the activity of the coagulant extracted from the cactus Opuntia ficus-indica (OFI) in the process of coagulation/flocculation of textile effluents. Preliminary tests of a kaolinite suspension achieved maximum turbidity removal of 95 % using an NaCl extraction solution. Optimiz...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： de Souza MT,Ambrosio E,de Almeida CA,de Souza Freitas TK,Santos LB,de Cinque Almeida V,Garcia JC

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:Spatial and temporal distribution of trace metals and their cycling is a key issue for understanding the ongoing biogeochemical processes in coastal environments. Sediment cores were collected from six different sampling locations from the Rufiji delta mangrove forests in southeastern coastal Tanzania that are perceiv...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Minu A,Routh J,Dario M,Bilosnic M,Kalén R,Val Klump J,Machiwa JF

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00