Detection of persistent OCPs and PCBs congeners in the near-shore coastal waters of Alexandria, Egypt.

abstract：:During the past three decades environmental monitoring systems covering an immense variety of environmental problems emerged rapidly throughout the world. In The Netherlands the entire spectrum of monitoring systems is present. Their development is especially interesting because of the Dutch complex environmental land...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mol G,Vriend SP,van Gaans PF

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inadequate knowledge of baseline conditions challenges ability for monitoring programs to detect pollution in rivers, especially where there are natural sources of contaminants. Here, we use paleolimnological data from a flood-prone lake ("SD2", informal name) in the Slave River Delta (SRD, Canada), ∼ 500 km downstrea...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Elmes MC,Wiklund JA,Van Opstal SR,Wolfe BB,Hall RI

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollution studies of air and water samples have been greatly enhanced by the use of chromatographic techniques. The selection of the proper detectors coupled with the various column types and substrates have broadened the capabilities of environmental analyses. Proper care in sampling protocols and sample treatment ha...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Grob RL

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil contamination by heavy metals has become a serious problem mainly because, above certain concentrations, all metals have adverse effects on human health. In particular, the accumulation of heavy metals in agricultural soils leads to elevated uptake by crops and affects food quality and safety. In this paper, we p...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： D'Emilio M,Caggiano R,Macchiato M,Ragosta M,Sabia S

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 30 laboratories routinely monitor water along southern California's beaches for bacterial indicators of fecal contamination. Data from these efforts frequently are combined and compared even though three different methods (membrane filtration (MF), multiple tube fermentation (MTF), and chromogenic substrate ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Griffith JF,Aumand LA,Lee IM,McGee CD,Othman LL,Ritter KJ,Walker KO,Weisberg SB

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daily mean, maximum and minimum surface air temperature data were gathered from a network of automatic weather stations (AWS) within the Moor House National Nature Reserve in northern England. Five AWS were installed next to the official Environmental Change Network weather station at Moor House. Data were compared gr...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Joyce A,Adamson J,Huntley B,Parr T,Baxter R

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:Air pollutants pose a risk to forest health and vitality in the United States. Here we present the major findings from a national scale air pollution assessment that is part of the United States' 2003 Report on Sustainable Forests. We examine trends and the percent forest subjected to specific levels of ozone and wet ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Coulston JW,Riitters KH,Smith GC

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been an accelerated expansion of deserts in the past five decades. Recent data reveal that the atmogenically formed organic compound, trichloroacetic acid (TCA) is a contributory factor in addition to anthropogenic and natural sources. The aim of this study was to use TCA as an indicator for the possible occ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Weissflog L,Krüger GH,Kellner K,Pienaar JJ,Pfennigsdorff A,Seyfarth K,Ondruschka B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major obstacle to the conservation and management of semi-natural grassland (SNG) is the general lack of consistent and precise maps showing the extent and quality of this habitat type. SNG is related to, and influenced by, agricultural land use. Both intensive land use as well as a lack of extensive land use can re...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Levin G

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to assess the applicability of using landscape variables in conjunction with water quality and benthic data to efficiently estimate stream condition of select headwater streams in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plains. Eighty-two streams with riffle sites were selected from eight-two independ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Megan MH,Nash MS,Neale AC,Pitchford AM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing urbanization and industrial processes in Trinidad within recent years could pose a possible contamination threat to the aquatic environment. The southwestern part of the island houses numerous industrial activities, and the recent sightings of schools of dead fish and other marine organisms in that loca...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mohammed FK,Sieuraj J,Seepersaud M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquatic ecosystems around the world, lake, estuaries and coastal areas are increasingly impacted by anthropogenic pollutants through different sources such as agricultural, industrial and urban discharges, atmospheric deposition and terrestrial drainage. Lake Victoria is the second largest lake in the world and the la...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Focardi S,Corsi I,Mazzuoli S,Vignoli L,Loiselle SA,Focardi S

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A majority of the research on forest fragmentation is primarily focused on animal groups rather than on tree communities because of the complex structural and functional behavior of the latter. In this study, we show that forest fragmentation provokes surprisingly rapid and profound alterations in tropical tree commun...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Giriraj A,Murthy MS,Beierkuhnlein C

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children are in direct contact with surface soil and may inadvertently ingest and inhale toxic contaminants while playing; hence, special attention should be given to playgrounds regarding toxic contaminants. The concentrations of ten toxic metals were determined in soil samples collected from school playgrounds and c...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Javed SA,Al-Bratty M,Al-Rajab AJ,Alhazmi HA,Ahsan W,Abdelwahab SI,Thangavel N

更新日期：2019-08-08 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：:Galvanized steel structures are used in a large variety of external constructions in the modern urban society, and their beneficial properties from a corrosion and oxidation perspective are well known. Less investigated is the extent of their contribution to the diffuse dispersion of zinc in the society and also to th...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lindström D,Wallinder IO

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stream water chemistry were analyzed across Vatinsky Egan River Catchment (West Siberia). The objective of the study is to reveal the spatial and seasonal variations of the water quality and to assess the anthropogenic chemical inputs into the river system. Stream chemistry were monitored in 24 sampling sites for a pe...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Moskovchenko DV,Babushkin AG,Artamonova GN

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Heavy metal accumulation and potential releases from loose deposits in drinking water distribution system (DWDS) can have critical impacts on drinking water safety, but the associated risks have not been sufficiently evaluated. In this work, the potential biological toxicity of heavy metals in loose deposits was calcu...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Liu Q,Han W,Han B,Shu M,Shi B

更新日期：2018-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the application of simple linear models to help design environmental monitoring systems. This process involves five steps: (1) The derivation of a schematic of the identified pollutant's transport and fate. (2) The derivation of the equation in the schematic. (3) Estimation of input data and numer...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wiersma GB,Frank CW,Case MJ,Crockett AB

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demand forecasting plays a vital role in resource management for governments and private companies. Considering the scarcity of water and its inherent constraints, demand management and forecasting in this domain are critically important. Several soft computing techniques have been developed over the last few decades ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ghalehkhondabi I,Ardjmand E,Young WA 2nd,Weckman GR

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadmium (Cd) pollution in plastic shed soils has become increasingly severe, posing a great threat to human health and social stability. Phytoremediation of cadmium pollution is an environmentally friendly and inexpensive remediation method. In this study, maize (Zea mays L.) was selected as the phytoremediation crop ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Sun K,Yue Y,Wen D,Li X,Yang Y,Yang N,Zhang H,Chen N,Wang K

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Air pollution has emerged as an imminent issue in modern society. Prediction of pollutant levels is an important research topic in atmospheric environment today. For fulfilling such prediction, the use of neural network (NN), and in particular the multi-layer perceptrons, has presented to be a cost-effective technique...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lu WZ,Fan HY,Leung AY,Wong JC

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of human biological samples, such as blood, urine, nails, and hair, is generally used for the verification of human exposure to toxic metals. In this review, various spectrometric methods for the determination of cadmium and lead in biological samples are discussed and compared. Several spectrometric tech...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lemos VA,de Carvalho AL

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：: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：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), widespread environmental pollutants, have been measured in aerosols and dustfall in Macao. In this paper, we compare concentration distributions and determine the partitioning of PAHs in aerosols and dustfall for different areas, sampling times and sampling heights. The results...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Shihua Q,Jun Y,Gan Z,Jiamo F,Guoying S,Zhishi W,Tong SM,Tang UW,Yunshun M

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soils play a vital role in the quality of the urban environment and the health of its residents. City soils and street dusts accumulate various contaminants and particularly potentially toxic elements (PTEs) from a variety of human activities. This study investigates the current condition of elemental concentration in...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Modabberi S,Tashakor M,Sharifi Soltani N,Hursthouse AS

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th, and 40K in lime and gypsum samples used as building materials in Turkey were measured using gamma spectrometry. The mean activity concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th, and 40K were found to be 38±16, 20±9, and 156±54 Bq kg(-1) for lime and found to be 17±6, 13±5, and 429±24 Bq kg...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Damla N,Cevik U,Kobya AI,Celik A,Celik N

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00