Heavy metal content of edible plants collected close to an area of intense mining activity (southern Portugal).

abstract：:The soil of Slovak Republic is severely contaminated with heavy metals, creating hazards to soil health. In order to assess the current status with the prospect of selecting the appropriate treatment methods and land use, this investigation aimed to determine a panel of complementary and ecologically relevant biomarke...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Maity S,Poráčová J,Dey P,Vašková J,Vaško L,Sedlák V,Mydlárová Blaščáková M

更新日期：2017-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnitude and distribution of European Community (EC) regulated List I and List II metals and metalloids have been investigated in two lowland river systems in East Anglia, U.K. A combination of sediment and water quality data identified municipal sewage treatment work discharges as the main metal input sources to...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Bubb IM,Lester JN

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the summer of 1999, two automated water quality measurement stations were installed along the Dender river in Belgium. The variables dissolved oxygen, temperature, conductivity, pH, rain-intensity, flow and solar radiation were measured continuously. In this paper these on-line measurement series are presented ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Vandenberghe V,Goethals PL,Van Griensven A,Meirlaen J,De Pauw N,Vanrolleghem P,Bauwens W

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface mining represents the dominant driver of land coverage changes in the Jiu Valley mining area in Romania. Detecting and quantifying active mines and reclaimed areas are very important tasks given the effects of surface mining on the environment. In this paper, Landsat imagery for the years 1988, 1998, 2008, and...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Vorovencii I

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:On 15 July, 1980, the Council of Ministers of the European Communities adopted a Council Directive on air quality limit values and guide values for sulphur dioxide and suspended particulates. This directive constitutes the first European legislation on stating air quality standards.The guiding principles underlying th...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Smeets J

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing recognition that protozoa is very useful in monitoring and evaluating water ecological healthy and quality. In order to study the relationship between structure and function of protozoan communities and water qualities, six sampling stations were set on Lake Donghu, a hypereutrophic subtropical Chi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Jiang JG,Shen YF

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Closed municipal and industrial waste landfill sites create potential hazard of ground water pollution. Pollutants that occur in leachate infiltrate to the soil substratum, where they are carried to in underground water. A municipal waste landfill substratum can be used for elimination of pollutants contained in leach...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Szymański K,Janowska B,Iżewska A,Sidełko R,Siebielska I

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The St. Thomas East End Reserves or STEER is located on the southeastern end of the island of St. Thomas, USVI. The STEER contains extensive mangroves and seagrass beds, along with coral reefs, lagoons, and cays. Within the watershed, however, are a large active landfill, numerous marinas, resorts, various commercial ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pait AS,Hartwell SI,Mason AL,Warner RA,Jeffrey CF,Hoffman AM,Apeti DA,Pittman SJ

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two spectrophotometric methods have been developed for the determination of nitrite using dapsone (DAP) with alpha-naphthol and 4-amino-5-hydroxynapthalene-2,7-disulphonic acid monosodium salt (AHNDMS) as chromogenic reagents with maximum absorbance wavelength at 540 and 520 nm respectively. For the method that utiliz...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Nagaraj P,Prakash JS,Shivakumar A,Shrestha AK

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature from 12 to 22°C and salinity from 30.5 to 7.6‰ increased accumulation of copper in Hediste diversicolor. Copper accumulated ranged from 85.83 to 217.14 μg g(-1). Sediments reduced accumulation of copper under temperature-salinity combinations. Accumulated copper ranged from 90.19 to 153.26 μg g(-1).However...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ozoh PT

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coastal lagoons are ecologically and economically important environments but a relative low number of studies were carried out in subtropical and permanently closed coastal lagoons. The present study aimed at assessing the temporal and spatial dynamic of trophic relevant water quality parameters in the small, deep and...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hennemann MC,Petrucio MM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study has been carried out in crystalline hard rock aquifers of Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, to identify the spatial and temporal variations and to understand sources responsible for hydrogeochemical processes in the region. Totally, 216 samples were collected for four seasons [premonsoon (PRM), southwest monsoon (...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Thivya C,Chidambaram S,Thilagavathi R,Prasanna MV,Singaraja C,Adithya VS,Nepolian M

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:River discharge is one of the important hydraulic data to evaluate and manage the regional water resources. Estimating river discharge is generally based on field measurements. The measurement data are then applied to construct water level-discharge rating curves. However, it is sometimes difficult to obtain accurate ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chen FW,Liu CW

更新日期：2020-04-16 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：:Sensitive analytical methods indicate the presence of hundreds of chemical contaminants in our environment. However, concentration of these pollutants is usually at the low parts per million or parts per billion level. At such low levels, toxicants induce long-term (chronic) rather than short-term (acute) toxicities. ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Giam CS,Holliday TL,Zheng Y,Williams JL,Ahmed MS

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ambient air quality monitoring network has been established using risk assessment techniques to evaluate adverse health effects from exposures to airborne contaminants. The risk assessment method was compared to traditional methods of establishing air quality monitoring networks: identifying m aximum concentration ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Baldauf RW,Lane DD,Marotz GA,Barkman HW,Pierce T

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between nutrients and the trophic state of Borçka dam reservoir in the Çoruh River Basin, which is located in the Eastern Black Sea region of Turkey, were evaluated using the trophic state index (TSI), trophic level index (TLI), and statistical analysis. The samples data were analyzed for chlorophyll...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Bilgin A

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the importance of markets and fairs for the commerce of medicinal plants, an ethnobotanical study was undertaken at the Caruaru Fair (Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil) to compare the richness of species sold and their values of relative importance (RI) using two datasets collected with a 4-year interval. The seas...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Monteiro JM,Ramos MA,Araújo Ede L,Amorim EL,Albuquerque UP

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urban expansion can cause extensive changes in land use and land cover (LULC), leading to changes in temperature conditions. Land surface temperature (LST) is one of the key parameters that should be considered in the study of urban temperature conditions. The purpose of this study was, therefore, to investigate the e...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Madanian M,Soffianian AR,Koupai SS,Pourmanafi S,Momeni M

更新日期：2018-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed and tested a plant-based index of biological integrity (IBI) and used it to evaluate the existing reclamation wetlands in Alberta's oil sands mining region. Reclamation plans call for >15,000 ha of wetlands to be constructed, but currently, only about 25 wetlands are of suitable age for evaluation. Reclam...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Rooney RC,Bayley SE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the benthic macroinvertebrate community in the Arente River (a tributary of the Crati river in the Region of Calabria, Italy) were monitored monthly for 1 year through stratified sampling by habitat (pools and riffles) together with general descriptors of communities structure and the extended biotic index ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gallo L,De Filippis A,Mezzotero A,Voelz NJ,Lucadamo L

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents an environmental hazard assessment to account the impacts of single rainstorm variability on river-torrential landscape identified as potentially vulnerable mainly to erosional soil degradation processes. An algorithm for the characterisation of this impact, called Erosive Hazard Index (EHI), is de...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Diodato N

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contamination levels of PCDD/PCDFs in irrigation water are the most rarely studied throughout the world. The major problem in Egypt is the lack of studies and statistics about these contaminants of POPs in irrigation water. Therefore, this study is the first comprehensive report to elucidate the estimation and sou...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： El-Rahman MMA,Hassanin AS,El-Shahat MF,Nabil YM

更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Two strains of Pseudomonas species (B2 and D5) selected from an array of lead solubilizing and accumulating bacteria obtained from the effluent contaminated soil samples of a battery manufacturing factory were studied. Increase in pH between 4.0 and 6.0 favoured the growth of isolates: Peak log10 cfu mL(-1) values of ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ekundayo EO,Killham K

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water quality is a central component of ecological assessments but less well characterized in wetlands than other waterbody types. The 2011 National Wetland Condition Assessment, spanning freshwater and brackish wetlands across the conterminous USA, provided an unprecedented opportunity to examine water quality patter...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Trebitz AS,Nestlerode JA,Herlihy AT

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metal inputs to coastal Alaska ecosystems are driven by sediment loads from glacial meltwater and river outflows. This study characterized the spatial distribution of 16 major and trace metals in five strata in Kachemak Bay, as well as sediment total organic carbon content and grain size. Homer Harbor, a shallow...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Apeti DA,Hartwell IS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epiphytic lichen biodiversity (LB) distribution was evaluated in a 1000 km2 area in Tuscany (Central Italy). In the same area, a survey was performed to monitor tropospheric ozone (O3) phytotoxic effects using tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum) cv. Bel-W3 (O3 supersensitive) and cv. Bel-B (O3 resistant) as bioindicato...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lorenzini G,Landi U,Loppi S,Nali C

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, spectrophotometer was used as a detector for the determination of uranium from water, biological, and ore samples with a flow injection system coupled with solid phase extraction. In order to promote the online preconcentration of uranium, a minicolumn packed with XAD-4 resin impregnated with nalidixic a...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Shahida S,Ali A,Khan MH,Saeed MM

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study considers the effectiveness of the monitoring of toxic trace elements in various media from a polluted river estuary over a period of 15 years, using the same analytical techniques, facilities and, in some cases, the same operators. It shows that reliable comparisons can be made for monitoring waters, sedim...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Noller BN,Bloom H,Dineen RD,Johnson MG,Hammond RP

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00