Geo-Spatial Characterization of Soil Mercury and Arsenic at a High-Altitude Bolivian Gold Mine.

abstract：:In the present study six adsorbents viz. wood charcoal, fly ash, coconut charcoal, saw dust, coconut fiber and baggasse charcoal were studied for their capacity to remove atrazine from water. The removal efficiency of different adsorbents varied from 76.5% to 97.7% at 0.05 ppm concentration and 78.5% to 95.5% at 0.1 p...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Sharma RK,Kumar A,Joseph PE

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was performed to evaluate the microplastics (MPs) pollution of sediments from River Yongfeng. It was observed that the MPs in sediments were present with contents of 0.5-16.75 mg/kg and abundances of 5-72 items/kg, coupled by variation coefficients of 109% and 91%, respectively, indicating that the distribu...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Rao Z,Niu S,Zhan N,Wang X,Song X

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to reduce health risks from residual pesticides in herbal drug products, the residue information of pesticides should be acquired. Therefore, 38 commodities (229 herbal crude drug materials) were analyzed for 44 different pesticides. Among the 229 samples (36 types of herbal crude drugs), seven imported and t...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Oh CH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earthworms are bioindicators of soil pollution. The ecotoxicity of tailings from selected gold mines in South Africa was investigated utilizing Eisenia andrei bioassays and biomarkers. Samples were obtained from unrehabilitated, rehabilitated and naturally vegetated sites. Biomass, neutral red retention time (NRRT), s...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Maboeta MS,Oladipo OG,Botha SM

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2000, a coal slurry impoundment failure in Martin County, Kentucky, caused concerns about contaminants entering municipal water supplies. Water samples taken from impacted and reference area hot water tanks often exceeded US EPA drinking water guidelines. Concentrations of As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, and Pb had maxima ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Wigginton A,McSpirit S,Sims CD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A field study was conducted to evaluate the phytoremediation efficiency of cadmium (Cd) contaminated soil utilizing the Cd hyperaccumulator Beta vulgaris L. var. cicla during one growing season (about 2 months) on farmland in Zhangshi Irrigation Area, the representative wastewater irrigation area in China. Results sho...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Song X,Hu X,Ji P,Li Y,Chi G,Song Y

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated the impact of cesium ((133)Cs) at four concentrations (0, 0.001, 0.01, and 0.1 mg L(-1)) on growth, concentrations of chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments, and oxidative stress responses in the charophyte, Nitella pseudoflabellata, over 30 days. Oxidative stress was quantified by measuring a...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Atapaththu KS,Rashid MH,Asaeda T

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the results of long-term post-Chernobyl investigations of 134Cs and 137Cs activity concentrations in multifloral and chestnut honey sampled in northwest Croatia. For both radionuclides, the activity concentrations peaked in May 1986, decreasing exponentially until the mid-1990 s, when they fell und...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Franić Z,Branica G

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) in ambient air and farmland soil sampled in 2006 around an e-waste dismantling area with open burning of insulated wires in Longtang in south China were investigated. The total toxic equivalent concentrations of PCDD/Fs were 3.2-31.7 pg/m(3) in air and 5.8 ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Ren M,Tang YH,Peng PA,Cai Y

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of echinoid parental nutrition in early-life stage toxicity is not well understood. Arbacia punctulata were fed either a fresh diet consisting of organic lettuce and carrots or a dry feed. Embryos from parents fed the dry feed exhibited lower sensitivity to copper, whereas the opposite occurred with 1,3,5-tri...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Nelson RW,Nipper M,Lawrence A,Watts S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the provenance of anthropogenic lead, a major pollutant of surface sediments, was determined in Huainan Panji coal mining area. The lead concentrations and the pollution degree were investigated by the enrichment factor. Tessier five-step morphology extraction method was used to discuss its potential ha...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zheng L,Liu X,Tang Q,Ou J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diets of Indigenous people rely on food and medicinal plants harvested directly from the land and there is increasing concern from Indigenous knowledge holders over changes to the appearance and flavor of wild harvested food and medicinal plants. We collected samples of muskrat root, considered an important medici...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Gray MA,Walker EM,Brooks C,deMarsh L

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analytical method based on high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) has been developed to investigate florfenicol residues. Among 11 stations, florfenicol was detected in six water samples. The concentrations of florfenicol in the six samples were 64.2 microg L(-1), 390.6 microg ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zong H,Ma D,Wang J,Hu J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the effect of long-term pesticides and chemical fertilizers application on the microbial communities specifically anammox and denitrification bacteria in rice field soils. The abundances of microbial communities (16S rDNA), anammox (hszB), and denitrification (narG, nirK, nirS, and nosZ)...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Rahman MM,Nahar K,Ali MM,Sultana N,Karim MM,Adhikari UK,Rauf M,Azad MAK

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of zinc (Zn) in Cichorium intybus and effects of phytotoxicity during 90 days of growth on (natural) non-contaminated and Zn-contaminated soils were studied. The phytotoxicity effects were monitored by evaluating the leaf area, leaf biomass, leaf length and root length of the vegetable. The Zn concent...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Wolf M,Paulino AT

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two species of marketable-size flatfish, winter flounder (Pleuronectes americanus) and American plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) from a fjord, were examined as sentinels for the effects of effluent discharged by a pulp and paper mill in Newfoundland, Canada. Reference samples for comparison were obtained from a p...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Khan RA

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soil survey was carried out to determine the levels and sources and concentrations of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in 2 semi-rural terrains in Mexico City (Tlahuac and Milpa Alta) during 2008-2009. PAH determination was made by Soxhlet extraction and chromatographic clean-up with final analysis by gas chromat...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Ortiz R,Vega S,Gutiérrez R,Gibson R,Schettino B,Ramirez Mde L

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the detection power of a gas chromatography mass spectrometer (GC-MS) for procymidone and chlorflurenol was significantly enhanced using switchable solvent liquid phase microextraction (SS-LPME) as a preconcentration tool. This was achieved by a comprehensive optimization of significant parameters to th...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Kapukıran F,Fırat M,Chormey DS,Bakırdere S,Özdoğan N

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the summer of 2015, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the atmosphere were collected by passive air samplers in typical urban-rural fringe of Wuhan-Ezhou region, Central China. The results showed that 16 kinds of PAHs were ubiquitous with the concentrations of ∑16PAHs from 14.69 to 136.30 ng·m-3 and the...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Wu D,Liu H,Wang Z,Zhang J,Zhan C,Liu S,Liu T,Zheng J,Yao R,Cao J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variations in concentrations of herbicide bromobutide (RS)-2-bromo-N-(α,α-dimethylbenzyl)-3,3-dimethylbutyramide, and its metabolite bromobutide-debromo, N-(α,α-dimethylbenzyl)-3,3-dimethylbutyramide were investigated in soils from three paddy fields used for rice farming at 24 weeks after application. The bromobutide...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Morohashi M,Nagasawa S,Enya N,Ohno M,Suzuki K,Kose T,Kawata K

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micronucleus test is an extensively used protocol to assess the mutagenicity of environmental chemicals. This was developed by Schmid and his co-workers (Matter and Schmid, 1971; Ledebur and Schmid, 1973). The micronucleus test is simple, quick and as sensitive as the chromosome aberration analysis. It is based on the...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Hemavathi E,Rahiman MA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of Cd on a halophyte of Doingying wild soybean (DY-03262) were studied by comparing it with a cultivated soybean (SN-11) via investigating photosynthetic activity, chlorophyll fluorescence and Cd concentrations in leaves after treatment with different concentrations of Cd (0, 50, and 100 μM) for 10 days. T...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Xue Z,Gao H

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed trace elements concentration in European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) from Brenne Natural Park (France). We sampled road-killed turtles (N = 46) to measure the concentrations of 4 non-essential (Ag, Cd, Hg, and Pb) and 10 essential (As, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Se, V, and Zn) elements in muscle, skin, liv...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Guillot H,Bonnet X,Bustamante P,Churlaud C,Trotignon J,Brischoux F

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potential of wastewater treatment in car industry and groundwater contamination by volatile organic compounds include perchloroethylene (PCE), trichloroethylene (TCE) and dichloromethane (DCM) near car industry was conducted in this study. Samples were collected in September through December 2011 from automobile indus...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Kargar M,Nadafi K,Nabizadeh R,Nasseri S,Mesdaghinia A,Mahvi AH,Alimohammadi M,Nazmara S,Rastkari N

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of these studies demonstrate that the blue crab was readily able to take up and discharge labeled n-alkanes, but it was not able to metabolize them. In contrast, it appears that n-alkanes taken up via the digestive tract in mullet are readily metabolized, probably via microorganisms in the gut. More limited me...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Geiszler PC,Grantham BJ,Blomquist GJ

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here the results of the study on metal pollution by identifying source, abundance and distribution in soil and tailings of Khetri copper complex (KCC) mines, Rajasthan India. The region is highly contaminated by copper (Cu) with higher values in the soil near overburden material (1224 mg/kg) and tailings (1...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Punia A,Siddaiah NS,Singh SK

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of lead (Pb), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), and cadmium (Cd) were evaluated in the sediments, roots and leaves of a mangrove species (Avicennia marina) in Las Piñas-Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area (LPPCHEA), Manila Bay. The concentrations showed a general pattern of Zn > Pb > Cu > Cd in sedimen...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Gabriel AV,Salmo SG 3rd

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mean concentrations of selected USEPA priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in surface sediments and water samples from Car Wash and Kisat areas of Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria in Kenya have been determined using GC-FID and GC-MS. Sampling was done during the rainy season in April 2006. The PAH concentrations ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Kwach BO,Lalah JO

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lead content of whole blood of 62 sheep grazed continuously for 6 months near a major highway was compared with 38 sheep from a nearby uncontaminated area. Mean values of 0.90 and 0.20 microgram/ml were obtained. Four sheep from the contaminated area were placed in an uncontaminated paddock and the lead content of...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Ward NI,Brooks RR,Roberts E

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenolic compounds have been used because they are among the most toxic and ubiquitous environmental contaminants present in many industrial wastes. It is recognized that factors such as water hardness, pH, temperature, chemical formulation, species, age and/or stage of development of test organisms, to mention only a...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Barahona MV,Sánchez-Fortún S

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00