Use of multiple criteria for eutrophication assessment of coastal waters.

abstract：:Since 1972, the Parties (United States and Canada, 1987) to the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement have been working collaboratively to achieve the purpose of the Agreement "to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the waters of the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem". Billions of dollars a...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Shear H

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of trees in reducing nutrient migration to groundwaters in cultivated areas, under Mediterranean climate conditions, is tested. Three cultivated fields were monitored for two cultivation periods. The common characteristic of the three fields was that on one side, they bordered with a poplar tree field. Fo...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gikas GD,Tsihrintzis VA,Sykas D

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

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：:A simple box model computing time-averaged concentrations in soil and water of contaminants such as pesticides, following a pulse emission under the assumption of constant removal rates, is presented and evaluated against a benchmark model and some lysimeter experiments representative of different soil and climate set...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pistocchi A

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of urbanization on stream ecosystems is linked by land cover changes to the alteration of the natural hydrology and subsequent physical disruption of stream biota and habitat. Seasonal floods are part of the natural disturbance regime of many streams, but urbanization increases their frequency and magnitude...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Coleman JC 2nd,Miller MC,Mink FL

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation was carried out to monitor Pb and Cd contamination in grazing land located near a highway. Environmental media at different distances from highway (soil, grass, water, cow's forage, fertilizer, manure and milk samples) were collected from three sampling locations. Soil and grass were characterized by ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Parkpian P,Leong ST,Laortanakul P,Thunthaisong N

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bay of Gokova in Southeastern Aegean Sea (Turkey) is important by the potential of agricultural, municipal, and tourism activities. In addition, there is no industrial plant within the area in the Aegean Sea. Kadın Creek (Azmak) and Akçapınar Creek (Azmak) flowing into the inner Gokova Bay are one of the important...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Demirak A,Yılmaz HA,Keskin F,Sahin Y,Akpolat O

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ambient air quality monitoring network has been established using risk assessment techniques to evaluate adverse health effects from exposures to airborne contaminants. The risk assessment method was compared to traditional methods of establishing air quality monitoring networks: identifying m aximum concentration ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Baldauf RW,Lane DD,Marotz GA,Barkman HW,Pierce T

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anoxic biofilm involved in continuous denitrification process was monitored to investigate the effect of different concentrations of influent dissolved oxygen (DO) or nitrite on the biofilm. Microelectrode measurements evidenced nitrate removal activity of biofilm. When different concentrations of DO were applied t...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Jang A,Ahn Y,Kim IS

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred unpackaged rice samples, each weighing 500 g, were randomly collected at retail stores and open markets in the largest rice growing area (Thrace) in Turkey and analysed for mould counts, predominant mould genera, moisture content and mycotoxin levels. Mould counts ranged from 1.0 × 10(1) to 1.5 × 10(4) cfu...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Aydin A,Aksu H,Gunsen U

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine sediment toxicity tests are widely applied in monitoring programs, yet relatively little is known about the comparability of data from different laboratories. The need for comparability information is increased in cooperative monitoring programs, where multiple laboratories (often with variable skill levels) pe...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Bay SM,Jirik A,Asato S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury (Hg) was measured in the muscle, liver, and gonads of Haemulopsis elongatus and Pomadasys macracanthus from Mazatlán (SE Gulf of California) to determine the relationships of the hepatosomatic index (HSI) and gonadosomatic index (GSI) of fish with Hg concentrations in the corresponding tissues. Health risk to ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ramos-Osuna M,Patiño-Mejía C,Ruelas-Inzunza J,Escobar-Sánchez O

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this paper is to offer an approach to assess the risk associated with Municipal Solid Wastes, in a geospatial context. Initially, a risk index including hazard, vulnerability and other important variables was built. The built model is based on multi-criteria evaluation techniques and geographic inform...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Araiza-Aguilar JA,Cram-Heydrich S,Ruiz-Rivera N,Oropeza-Orozco O,Fernández-Lomelín MDP,Rojas-Valencia MN

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Residues of organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and 16 elements were measured in American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) eggs collected in 1984 from Lakes Apopka, Griffin, and Okeechobee in central and south Florida. Organochlorine pesticides were highest in eggs from Lake Apopka. None...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Heinz GH,Percival HF,Jennings ML

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several strategies were undertaken to increase the fertility of landfill soil as rapid urbanization remarkably decreases the agricultural land, posing challenges to the fast-growing human population. Towards this direction, soil microcosms were prepared wherein the addition of nutrient or biofertilizer or the combinat...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chakraborty P,Dave R,Paul P,Dutta S,Sarkar S,Tribedi P

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of heavy metals/metalloids in the ecosystem has been an increasing ecological and global public health concern due to their potential to cause adverse health effects. For this reason, the accumulation of some heavy metals such as Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, As, Cd, Pb was assessed by way of ICP-MS in water, sediment ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Alkas FB,Shaban JA,Sukuroglu AA,Kurt MA,Battal D,Saygi S

更新日期：2017-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of dispersed catalysts in aqueous medium inside reactors in advanced oxidative processes is common among researchers. However, due to the difficult separation of these species after treatment, in many cases, the treatment process is unfeasible. In this context, the main target of the work was the evaluation of...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Oliveira Guimarães C,Boscaro França A,Lamas Samanamud GR,Prado Baston E,Zanetti Lofrano RC,Almeida Loures CC,Rezende Naves LL,Naves FL

更新日期：2019-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The emission factors of mercury and calculation of annual emission into the atmosphere from different industrial sources in Poland are presented. The emission factors in turn depend on mercury concentration in raw materials, as well as on the character of a technological process. The combustion of hard coal and lignit...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mniszek W

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Construction of man-made objects such as roads and bridges may have impacts on wildlife depending on species or location. We investigated songbirds and small mammals along the Ohio River, WV, USA at a new bridge both before and after construction and at a bridge crossing that was present throughout the study. Comparis...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Vance JA,Angus NB,Anderson JT

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses a multidisciplinary approach to simulate the spatial and temporal patterns of hydrodynamics and water quality in a thermally stratified reservoir in the southern side of the Mediterranean Sea in response to water withdrawal elevation using the 2D water quality and laterally averaged hydrodynamic model ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zouabi-Aloui B,Adelana SM,Gueddari M

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:We studied the multiscale (sites, river reaches and rivers) and short-term temporal (monthly) variability in a freshwater fish assemblage. We found that small-scale spatial variation and short-term temporal variability significantly influenced fish community structure in the Macquarie and Namoi Rivers. However, larger...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Growns I,Astles K,Gehrke P

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:The exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) method, which includes global spatial autocorrelation and local spatial autocorrelation, is used to analyze the spatial pattern of the annual grain production and annual grain production increment in the Ziya River Basin from 2007 to 2017. Then, the spatial mismatch index i...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Li F,Wang Y,Cao R

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Food is the main source of toxic metals like mercury (Hg) and cadmium (Cd) to humans. This study evaluated the accumulation and translocation of Cd and Hg in a soil-plant system in four tomato plantations and assessed the risk associated with ingestion of these metals. Ten soil samples (rhizosphere) and 10 samples of ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lima CAI,Pestana IA,Azevedo LS,Ribeiro DP,Almeida MG,Prins CL,Marciano CR,Souza CMM

更新日期：2019-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Morgan Island, located within the ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve in South Carolina, is home to the only free-ranging colony of rhesus monkeys (Macca mulatta) in the continental United States. The purpose of this study was to assess environmental impacts of the monkey colony on water quality in adjacent ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Klopchin JL,Stewart JR,Webster LF,Sandifer PA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iran imports nearly 55,000 tons of Chrysotile asbestos per year and asbestos cement (AC) plants contribute nearly 94% of the total national usage. In the present study, airborne asbestos concentrations during AC sheet manufacturing were measured. The fiber type and its chemical composition were also evaluated by scann...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Panahi D,Kakooei H,Marioryad H,Mehrdad R,Golhosseini M

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectroscopic characteristics of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in a large dam reservoir were determined using ultraviolet absorbance and fluorescence spectroscopy to investigate spatial distribution of DOM composition after turbid storm runoff. Water samples were collected along a longitudinal axis of the reservoir a...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hur J,Jung NC,Shin JK

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:In this study, we propose to develop a geostatistical computational framework to model the distribution of rat bite infestation of epidemic proportion in Peshawar valley, Pakistan. Two species Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus are suspected to spread the infestation. The framework combines strengths of maximum entro...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ali A,Zaidi F,Fatima SH,Adnan M,Ullah S

更新日期：2018-03-24 00:00:00