Perfluoroalkyl acids in selected wastewater treatment plants and their discharge load within the Lake Victoria basin in Kenya.

abstract：:This paper examined the factors that might influence participating farmers' willingness-to-pay for the Tree Farming Fund (TFF) established for sustainable development of participatory forest management (PFM). Information on willingness-to-pay, socioeconomic characteristics, and attitudes of participating farmers towar...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Salam MA,Noguchi T,Alim MA

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to assess the effect of the physical habitat degradation in three lowland streams of Argentina that are subject to different land uses. To address this matter, we looked into some physical habitat alterations, mainly the water quality and channel changes, the impact on macrophytes' community, and the...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Cortelezzi A,Sierra MV,Gómez N,Marinelli C,Rodrigues Capítulo A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heavy metal concentrations of soil and dust samples from roadside, residential areas, parks, campus sport grounds, and commercial sites were studied in Guangzhou, South China. Heavy metals in samples were determined by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrophotometer following acidic digestion with HCl...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Cai QY,Mo CH,Li HQ,Lü H,Zeng QY,Li YW,Wu XL

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two and a half years of data of ambient concentrations of elemental mercury (Hg(0)), reactive gaseous mercury (RGM), and particle-bound mercury (Hg(p)) were collected at measurement sites at Elizabeth, New Jersey and New Brunswick, New Jersey with Tekran sampling units. The data were processed, summarized, and analyze...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Aucott ML,Caldarelli AD,Zsolway RR,Pietarinen CB,England R

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A field experiment was conducted over two seasons to evaluate the dissipation kinetics and assess the risks of chlorfenapyr in tomato and cabbage following foliar application of chlorfenapyr 10% SC at 100 and 200 g a.i. ha-1. Samples of tomato, cabbage, and soil were analyzed and quantified by gas chromatography-elect...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Patra S,Ganguly P,Barik SR,Samanta A

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Global agricultural intensification has led to increased pesticide use (37-fold from 1960 to 2005) and soil erosion (14% since 2000). Conservation tillage, including no-till (NT), has been proposed as an alternative to conventional plow till (PT) to mitigate soil erosion, but past studies have reported mixed results o...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Elias D,Wang L,Jacinthe PA

更新日期：2018-01-12 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：:The levels of four metals (Zn, Cu, Cd, and Pb) were evaluated in two fruit types (apricot and fig), a fruity vegetable (tomato), and three leafy vegetables (arugula, spinach, and lettuce) that are commonly grown and consumed in Aseer Region, Saudi Arabia. Flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry was employed for quan...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Oteef MD,Fawy KF,Abd-Rabboh HS,Idris AM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aroclor 1268 is a highly chlorinated PCB mixture that was released into the aquatic environment near Brunswick, GA (BR), as a result of decades of local industrial activity. This extensive contamination has led to US EPA Superfund designation in estuarine areas in and around Purvis Creek, GA. Roughly 50 km to the nort...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wirth EF,Pennington PL,Cooksey C,Schwacke L,Balthis L,Hyland J,Fulton MH

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of spatio-temporal patterns of the urban growth phenomenon has become one of the most significant challenges in monitoring and assessing current and future trends of the urban growth issue. Therefore, spatio-temporal and quantitative techniques should be used hand in hand for a deeper understanding ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Aburas MM,Ho YM,Ramli MF,Ash'aari ZH

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the concentrations of lead, cadmium, and chromium in lipstick samples were evaluated. The samples were from different brands and produced in different countries. The average lead, cadmium, and chromium concentrations in all lipstick samples were 1.851, 0.017, and 4.300 mg kg-1 ww, respectively. There wa...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Malvandi H,Sancholi F

更新日期：2018-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Composite Water Quality Identification Index (CWQII) and multivariate statistical techniques were used to investigate the temporal and spatial variations of water quality in Honghu Lake. The aims are to explore the characteristics of water quality trends in annual, monthly, and site spatial distribution and to identif...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ban X,Wu Q,Pan B,Du Y,Feng Q

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The estimation of coverage, i.e., the proportion of the total area in a study region covered by a given target class, is essential to many aspects of environmental monitoring. We analyze and compare the efficiency of different sample-based approaches for the estimation of coverage of different land cover classes from ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Fehrmann L,Seidel D,Krause B,Kleinn C

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As many arid and semi-arid regions in the Mediterranean Basin, the Grombalia coastal aquifer (NE Tunisia) is affected by severe groundwater exploitation and contamination. Therefore, quality assessments are becoming increasingly important as the long-term protection of water resources is at stake. Multidisciplinary in...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kammoun S,Trabelsi R,Re V,Zouari K,Henchiri J

更新日期：2018-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of PM1 and PM10 were collected for 1 year at an urban background station in the city of Elche (southeastern Spain) and analyzed to determine the content of n-alkanes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). A few samples were also gathered at a second sampling point established at one of the several palm t...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chofre C,Gil-Moltó J,Galindo N,Varea M,Caballero S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, radiological distribution of gross alpha, gross beta, (226)Ra, (232)Th, (40)K, and (137)Cs for a total of 40 natural spring water samples obtained from seven cities of the Eastern Black Sea Region was determined by artificial neural network (ANN) method. In the ANN method employed, the backpropagation a...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Yeşilkanat CM,Kobya Y

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:This paper examines the use of biomass data versus density data to estimate spatiotemporal variations in species diversity during ecological investigations assessing environmental impacts on aquatic communities. The community of benthic macroinvertebrates was selected to achieve this goal. Field studies were conducted...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Camargo JA

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-lapse resistivity measurements and groundwater geochemistry were used to study salinity effect on groundwater aquifer at the ex-promontory-land of Carey Island in Malaysia. Resistivity was measured by ABEM Terrameter SAS4000 and ES10-64 electrode selector. Relationship between earth resistivity and total dissolve...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Tajul Baharuddin MF,Taib S,Hashim R,Zainal Abidin MH,Ishak MF

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Choosing a subset of representative items from a set of alternatives is an important problem in many scientific fields such as environmental science and statistics. For most practical problems, however, a computationally efficient solution method is not known to exist. While this problem has attracted a significant am...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Vaisman R

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:This study conducted a combined adsorption-sequential extraction analysis (CASA), by which five phases (i.e., exchangeable, carbonate, Mn-Oxide, organic, and Fe-Oxide phases) of adsorbed heavy metals were analyzed, to investigate temperature effects on single and competitive adsorptions of Zn(II) and Cu(II) onto natur...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Dho NY,Lee SR

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research aims to study a novel approach for waste load allocation (WLA) to meet environmental, economical, and equity objectives, simultaneously. For this purpose, based on a simulation-optimization model developed for Haraz River in north of Iran, the waste loads are allocated according to discharge permit marke...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ashtiani EF,Niksokhan MH,Jamshidi S

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:The objective of this study is to analyze the concentrations of SO2, NO2, and O3 measured by a Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) system that was operating at the campus of Technological Education Institute of Piraeus during 2008 and 2009 warm periods (July to September) in relation to the prevailing ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Psiloglou BE,Larissi IK,Petrakis M,Paliatsos AG,Antoniou A,Viras LG

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main goal of this study was to evaluate the impacts of a middle-sized Finnish urban area on the quality of sediments in an adjacent boreal lake. We investigated the sources and distribution of organic pollutants (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)) in the sediments from ur...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Honkonen O,Rantalainen AL

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the use of biochemical markers, especially in the assessment of toxic effects and modes of action, under controlled laboratory conditions has increased. However, transposing their use to in situ monitoring or risk assessment evaluations has encountered barriers, mainly related to the difficulty in int...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Domingues I,Santos CS,Ferreira NG,Machado L,Oliveira R,Ferreira A,Lopes I,Loureiro S,Soares AM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The groundwater level represents a critical factor to evaluate hillside landslides. A monitoring system upon the real-time prediction platform with online analytical functions is important to forecast the groundwater level due to instantaneously monitored data when the heavy precipitation raises the groundwater level ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lin HC,Hong YM,Kan YC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though the principles of the Earth's greenhouse effect have been known for well over a century, it is only recently that advances in climate research have indicated that significant and possibly costly climate change, due to growing emissions of greenhouse gases and their precursors by human activity, is a real possib...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Callander B

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, concentrations of nickel (Ni) were quantified in the soils and plants in the agricultural areas of Salcedo watershed in Eastern Samar Island, Philippines. The quantity of total Ni in soils (TS-Ni) was significantly high with a mean of 1,409 mg kg(-1), while the soil available Ni (SA-Ni) was low with a m...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Susaya JP,Kim KH,Asio VB,Chen ZS,Navarrete I

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissipation pattern and risk assessment of flubendiamide and its metabolite (desiodo flubendiamide) on chili were studied at four different agro-climatic locations of India at the standard and double dose at 60 and 120 g a.i. ha(-1) at 10 days interval. Quantification of residues was done on a high-performance liquid ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Sharma KK,Mukherjee I,Singh B,Sahoo SK,Mandal K,Mohapatra S,Ahuja AK,Sharma D,Parihar NS,Sharma BN,Kale VD,Walunj AR

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00