Use of statistical and GIS techniques to assess and predict concentrations of heavy metals in soils of Lahore City, Pakistan.

abstract：:In this study, a rapid, specific and sensitive multi-residue method based on acetonitrile extraction followed by dispersive solid-phase extraction (d-SPE) clean-up was implemented and validated for multi-class pesticide residues determination in palm oil for the first time. Liquid-liquid extraction followed by low-tem...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Sobhanzadeh E,Abu Bakar NK,Bin Abas MR,Nemati K

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changing the landscape has serious environmental impacts affecting the ecosystem services, particularly in the tropics. In this paper, we report changes in ecosystem services in relation to land use and land cover over an 18-year period (1988--2006) in the Menglun Township, Xishuangbanna, Southwest China. We used Land...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hu H,Liu W,Cao M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapidly developing Asian countries may face threatening environmental contamination, that however remains largely unassessed. We studied persistent trace elements in three wetlands, Poyang Lake, relatively unpolluted, and Tai Lake, and Pearl River Delta, selected as hotspots of pollution in Central China. We adopt...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhang Y,Ruan L,Fasola M,Boncompagni E,Dong Y,Dai N,Gandini C,Orvini E,Ruiz X

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of the efficiency of aircraft liquid waste treatment has previously been conducted to prevent pollution of the environment. The current study aimed to provide a set of practical methods for efficient airport sanitary supervision. Aircraft liquid waste was collected at Longjia International Airport, Changchu...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Xu J,Yang J,Zhao N,Sheng L,Zhao Y,Tang Z

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ergene River Basin is located in the north-west part of Marmara Region of Turkey. There are many industrial enterprises on its basin and as well as the majority of these facilities are located on the upstream of the basin. Therefore, Ergene River is one of the rare river ecosystems that are contaminated almost from th...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Tokatli C

更新日期：2019-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Serious environmental problems have accompanied remarkable global economic growth for decades. To assist managers in the semiconductor industry with economic and environmental management, this study executes DuPont analysis to examine economic impacts from the effective implementation of sustainability initiatives. We...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lin F,Lin SW,Lu WM

更新日期：2019-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Dams and sluices break down the river continuum, alter the river hydrological regime, and intercept the migration processes of nutrients and pollutants. The regulation of dams and sluices will have great impacts on water quality characteristics in the river basin. In this study, variable fuzzy pattern recognition mode...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Qin G,Liu J,Xu S,Wang T

更新日期：2020-06-20 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：:The concentrations of six heavy metal/metalloids (HMs) cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), mercury (Hg), lead (Pb), zinc (Zn), and arsenic (As) were determined in the influent, effluent, and dewatered sludge of two sewage treatment works (Yuen Long Sewage Treatment Work (YLSTW) and Shek Wu Hui Sewage Treatment Work (SWHSTW)) a...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Man YB,Lei KM,Chow KL,Leung AOW,Mo WY,Wong MH

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Northern Arabian Sea is considered as an ecologically sensitive area as it experiences a massive upwelling and long-lasting algal bloom, Noctiluca scintillans (green tide) during summer and spring-winter, respectively. Diatom bloom is also found to be co-located with N. scintillans and both have an impact on ecology o...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Dwivedi R,Priyaja P,Rafeeq M,Sudhakar M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groundwater is a globally important, valuable resource for human life and economic development. Despite its importance, it is often misused and rarely well managed. Delineation of polluted zone attains significance especially when the pollution affects the human health. Delineation can be done by many approaches: proc...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： R R,G S

更新日期：2019-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A new algorithm was developed for retrieving sea surface temperature (SST) in coastal waters using satellite remote sensing data from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard Aqua platform. The new SST algorithm was trained using the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) method and tested using 8 years o...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wang J,Deng Z

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Riparian wetlands provide critical functions for the improvement of surface water quality and storage of nutrients. Correspondingly, investigation of the adsorption characteristic and capacity of nutrients onto its sediments is benefit for utilizing and protecting the ecosystem services provided by riparian areas. The...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhang L,Du C,Du Y,Xu M,Chen S,Liu H

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of secondary minerals and Cs mobility in Hanford sediments were investigated under conditions similar to the Hanford tank leak in a dynamic flow system at 50 degrees C. The objectives were to (1) examine the nature and locations of secondary mineral phases precipitated in the sediments and (2) quantify the a...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mashal KY,Cetiner ZS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major constituents and trace metals in the surface sediments collected from the Western Harbor and El-Mex Bay along the Egyptian Mediterranean Coast were studied. The concentrations of major constituents decreased in the following order: Ca > Si > Mg > Na > K for the Western Harbor and El-Mex Bay. Additionally, th...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Shreadah MA,Shobier AH,Ghani SA,El Zokm GM,Said TO

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oil spill pollution has remained a source of several international litigations in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. In this paper, we examined the impacts of small recurrent crude oil spills on the physicochemical, microbial and hydrobiological properties of the Nun River, a primary source of drinking water, food and...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ifelebuegu AO,Ukpebor JE,Ahukannah AU,Nnadi EO,Theophilus SC

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continual, historical, and accurate information about the land use/land cover (LULC) changes of the earth's surface is extremely important for sustainable management of natural resources. In this study, historical topographic sheets, IRS P6 LISS-III, and LANDSAT TM images were used to provide recent and historical LUL...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Adhikary PP,Barman D,Madhu M,Dash CJ,Jakhar P,Hombegowda HC,Naik BS,Sahoo DC,Beer K

更新日期：2019-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We present diurnal variation of ambient ammonia (NH(3)) in relation with other trace gases (O(3), CO, NO, NO(2), and SO(2)) and meteorological parameters at an urban site of Delhi during winter period. For the first time, ambient ammonia (NH(3)) was monitored very precisely and continuously using ammonia analyzer, whi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Sharma SK,Datta A,Saud T,Mandal TK,Ahammed YN,Arya BC,Tiwari MK

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extensive field survey was employed for assessing the impacts of long-term wastewater irrigation of forage crops and orange orchards in three suburban agricultural areas in Cyprus (areas I, II, and III), as compared to rainfed agriculture, on the soil geochemical properties and the bioaccumulation of heavy metals (...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Christou A,Eliadou E,Michael C,Hapeshi E,Fatta-Kassinos D

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to investigate the contamination of water, sediments, and fish tissues with heavy metals in river Panjkora at Lower Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Water, sediments, and fish (Shizothorax plagiostomus) samples were collected from September 2012 to January 2013 at three different site...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ahmad K,Azizullah A,Shama S,Khattak MN

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Community asks its Member States to provide a comprehensive and coherent overview of their groundwater chemical status. It is stated that simple conceptual models are necessary to allow assessments of the risks of failing to meet quality objectives. In The Netherlands two monitoring networks (one for agri...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Boumans L,Fraters D,van Drecht G

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated environmental impacts on rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) reared at fish farms with either extensive technology, in a flow-through system (FTS, n = 3), or intensive technology, in a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS, n = 3). All fish were fed the same rations. Fish were caught in spring and autu...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Strzyżewska-Worotyńska E,Szarek J,Babińska I,Gulda D

更新日期：2017-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Two multiresidue methods were developed to determine pesticides in air collected in California. Pesticides were trapped using XAD-4 resin and extracted with ethyl acetate. Based on an analytical method from the University of California Davis Trace Analytical Laboratory, pesticides were detected by analyzing the extrac...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hengel M,Lee P

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degradation of flubendiamide as affected by microbial population count in two Indian soils (red and alluvial) varying in physicochemical properties was studied under sterile and non-sterile conditions. Recovery of flubendiamide in soil was in the range of 94.7-95.9 % at 0.5 and 1.0 μg g(-1), respectively. The DT50 of ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Das SK,Mukherjee I

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uses of wastewater drives significant economic activity, supports countless livelihoods particularly those for developing countries. While using wastewater, the challenge is to identify practical, affordable safeguards that do not threaten the health of users. In Yanbu Al-Sinaiyah, treated sewage effluent (TSE) is use...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ahmad M,Bajahlan AS,Miran MM

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the second half of the 20th century Kalmykia has undergone severe desertification. Under Soviet rule, rangelands were increasingly devoted to animal production, and pastures were converted to cropland in a campaign to increase crops. Pastures were grazed two to three times their sustainable production, saiga po...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zonn IS

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:Introduction of heavy metals in the environment by various anthropogenic activities has become a potential treat to life. Among the heavy metals, cadmium (Cd) shows relatively high soil mobility and has high phyto-mammalian toxicity. Integration of soil remediation and ecosystem services, such as carbon sequestration ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Coumar MV,Parihar RS,Dwivedi AK,Saha JK,Rajendiran S,Dotaniya ML,Kundu S

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Assessment method for ecological condition of Xiangxi River system was studied by using 13 candidate metrics of epilithic diatom which can reflect conditions in pH, salinity, nitrogen uptake metabolism, oxygen requirements, saprobity, trophic state, morphological character and pollution tolerant capability etc. By one...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Tang T,Cai Q,Liu J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00