Check dam sediments: an important indicator of the effects of environmental changes on soil erosion in the Loess Plateau in China.

abstract：:We have implemented a diagnostic system designed to advise on the likely causes of sanitary problems with public water sources. The approach to the problem makes extensive use of rule based expert systems and multi media information (maps, data, text, expert knowledge). The rules were based on actual water survey data...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Swayne DA,Wang CW,Storey J,Lam DC,Kerby J

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bark and the latex of plants constitute non-timber forest products (NTFPs) of medicinal and economic value that are widely harvested throughout the world. Bark and latex harvesting impacts on plant reproduction are controversial in the literature. Some species are negatively impacted, some do not show any response...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： da Silva JB,da Silva LB,Albuquerque UP,Castro CC

更新日期：2018-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a class of environmental pollutants generated from incomplete combustion of organic materials. PAHs in tea have been studied for five locally available brands. Six to seven PAHs from list of 16 priority pollutants (US EPA) were found to be present in samples of various brand...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Singh S,Vashishth A,Vishal

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:Air pollution due to small scale industries have been found to cause serious occupational health hazards and adverse effects on vegetation and heritage. The study for air pollution impact assessment for brick kiln industries was undertaken. The stack monitoring exercise was carried out to estimate the pollution level ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Bhanarkar AD,Gajghate DG,Hasan MZ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The general principles of scale and coarse and fine filters have been widely accepted, but management agencies and industry are still grappling with the question of what to monitor to detect changes in forest biodiversity following forest management. Part of this problem can be attributed to the lack of focused questi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Thompson ID

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the effects of two insecticides, namely, acetamiprid and carbofuran on the enzymatic activities of arylamidase (as glucose formed from sinigrin) and myrosinase (as β-naphthylamine formed from L-leucine β-naphthylamide) in the black and red clay soils collected from a fallow...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mohiddin GJ,Srinivasulu M,Maddela NR,Manjunatha B,Rangaswamy V,Koch Kaiser AR,Maisincho Asqui JC,Darwin Rueda O

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assesses variability, trends, and teleconnections of stream flow with large-scale climate signals (global sea surface temperatures (SSTs)) for the Omo-Ghibe River Basin of Ethiopia. Fourteen hydrological indices of variability and extremes were defined from daily stream flow data series and analyzed for two...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Degefu MA,Bewket W

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to monitor changes in the concentrations of metals in the soil, different microbial indices such as BIOLOG, microbial carbon (C(mic)), basal respiration, and culturable microbe's most probable number were used. We compared these methods and wanted to discover which method was the best at measuring slight chan...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wang Q,Dai J,Yu Y,Zhang Y,Shen T,Liu J,Wang R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquatic ecosystems are fundamentally altered by nutrient enrichment, and effective monitoring tools are needed to detect biological responses especially in the early stages of eutrophication. We tested the utility of biological trait analysis (BTA) to quantify the temporal responses of nematodes inhabiting salt marsh ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mitwally HM,Fleeger JW

更新日期：2016-03-01 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

abstract：:The distributions of culturable bacteria and functional bacteria associated with nitrogen (N) or phosphorus (P) in the backwater areas of the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) were investigated. Results from seven locations in the TGR indicated that the abundance of total bacteria was high, with 8.12 x 10(6), 2.70 x 10(7),...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wang H,Shen Z,Niu J,He Y,Hong Q,Wang Y

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper estimates Malaysian farmers' willingness to pay (WTP) for a planned adaptation programme for addressing climate issues in the Malaysian agricultural sector. We used the contingent valuation method (CVM) for a monetary valuation of farmers' preferences for a planned adaptation programme by ascertaining the v...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Masud MM,Junsheng H,Akhtar R,Al-Amin AQ,Kari FB

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:Combating desertification requires the involvement of many people ranging from communities who experience the effects on a daily basis and scientists attempting to understand the biophysical and socio-economic causes and consequences of desertification, to developers and policy makers on all levels. In many instances,...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Seely M,Moser P

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coastal zone is one of the nation's greatest environmental and economic assets. The present research aims at studying the shoreline changes along Vedaranyam coast using conventional and modern techniques including field sampling, remote sensing, and geographical information system (GIS). The study area was divided...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Natesan U,Thulasiraman N,Deepthi K,Kathiravan K

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This comment highlights a whole series of datasets on thallium concentrations in the environment that were overlooked in the recent review by Karbowska, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 188, 640, 2016 in this journal. Geochemical surveys carried out over the last few decades all over the world at various scale...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： de Caritat P,Reimann C

更新日期：2017-05-01 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 stream water quality model, QUAL2Kw, was calibrated and validated for the river Bagmati of Nepal. The model represented the field data quite well with some exceptions. The influences of various water quality management strategies have on DO concentrations were examined considering: (i) pollution loads modification; ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kannel PR,Lee S,Kanel SR,Lee YS,Ahn KH

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proactive sampling strategy was designed and implemented in 2000 to document changes in streams whose catchment land uses were predicted to change over the next two decades due to increased building density. Diatoms, macroinvertebrates, fishes, suspended sediment, dissolved solids, and bed composition were measured ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gardiner EP,Sutherland AB,Bixby RJ,Scott MC,Meyer JL,Helfman GS,Benfield EF,Pringle CM,Bolstad PV,Wear DN

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The removal of soluble contaminants from fractured porous bedrock by means of a recovery well is modeled by means of a lumped parameter approach. The diffusion of contaminant from immobile liquid within the pores of the fractured rock into the mobile liquid in the interstices is handled by means of a time constant the...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wilson DJ,Mutch RD Jr

更新日期：1990-09-01 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：:The bark of Moringa oleifera, a cheap and readily available natural biopolymeric resource material, found to significantly reduce coliform load and turbidity in contaminated water is investigated in this paper. Its surface and adsorptive properties are investigated to explore its adsorptive potential in removing V(V) ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mnisi RL,Ndibewu PP

更新日期：2017-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of responsible sources of pollution using physical parameter particulate matter (PM)10 in a critically polluted area is discussed in this paper. Database was generated by Ambient Air Quality Monitoring (AAQM) with respect to PM10 and PM2.5 in 18 monitoring stations at Jharia coalfield as per the siting ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Roy D,Singh G,Gosai N

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:4-[N,N-(Dimethyl)amino]benzaldehyde thiosemicarbazone (DMABT) is proposed as an analytical reagent for the extractive spectrophotometric determination of copper(II). DMABT forms yellow colored complex with copper(II) in the pH range 4.4-5.4. Beer's law is obeyed in the concentration range up to 4.7 μg mL(-1). The opti...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Karthikeyan J,Naik PP,Shetty AN

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of Jerusalem limestones were exposed to high levels of common air pollutants (SO2, NO) in the presence and absence of hydrocarbon, water vapor and ultra-violet light. After exposure, the outer layers were shaved off and analyzed for sulfate and nitrate. The results revealed that even after one day of exposure ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Peleg M,Burla E,Cohen I,Luria M

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,1,1-Trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane(4,4'-DDT) is a pesticide well-known for its negative health and environmental effects. Despite being banned by a majority of world countries more than 30 years ago, its persistence in the environment is a continuing problem even today. The objective of the study was the in...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Erdem Z,Cutright TJ

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:Few studies have evaluated the impact of climate change on groundwater resources for a region with no pumping well. Indeed, the uncertainty of pumping wells may undesirably influence the results. Therefore, a region without any pumping well was selected to assess the impact of climate change on the karstic spring flow...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zeydalinejad N,Nassery HR,Shakiba A,Alijani F

更新日期：2020-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Alluvial aquifers of the agrarian state of Punjab of southwestern arid zone used for irrigation of rice crops are rich in arsenic concentration. In the present study, rice (Oryza sativa L.) crops were raised in pots in a greenhouse with a purpose to study whether selenium (Se) application was effective in ameliorating...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kaur S,Singh D,Singh K

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00