Detection and assessment of the phytotoxicity of residual organic pollutants in sediment contaminated with pulp and paper mill effluent.

abstract：:In this work, we evaluated the risk posed to aquatic organisms in the coastal waters of Albania and Apulia (Italy) by two priority pollutants (PPs), Irgarol 1051 and Diuron, used as biocides in antifouling paints on boat hulls. With this aim, we carried out an extensive 3-year monitoring in ports and marinas along the...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ansanelli G,Parrella L,Di Landa G,Massanisso P,Schiavo S,Manzo S

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oily sludge is a stable emulsion of water in oil, containing solid particles, oily hydrocarbons, and metals with different compositions, which is greatly hazardous to the environment; as a consequence, they must be removed or recovered. Recovery methods are usually preferable because of the possibility of valuable oil...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Nezhdbahadori F,Abdoli MA,Baghdadi M,Ghazban F

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrofishing is widely used to monitor fish species composition and relative abundance in streams and lakes. According to standard protocols, multiple segments are selected in a body of water to monitor population relative abundance as the ratio of total catch to total sampling effort. The standard protocol provides...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Miranda LE

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cancer risks (CR) by oral ingestion, dermal absorption, and inhalation exposure of trihalomethanes (THM) from tap water of ten districts in Fortaleza, Brazil were estimated. The mean levels of THM compounds were obtained in Fortaleza tap water as follow: 63.9 microg L(-1) for chloroform (CHCl(3)), 40.0 microg L(-1...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Viana RB,Cavalcante RM,Braga FM,Viana AB,de Araujo JC,Nascimento RF,Pimentel AS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to Directive 2002/49, strategic noise maps and their correspondent action plans were carried out in the Autonomous Community of Navarre, Spain. Six strategic noise maps were produced for 120 km of major roads as well as a strategic noise map for the Agglomeration of the Region of Pamplona (ARP) with a popula...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Arana M,Martin RS,Nagore I,Pérez D

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out to determine the concentrations of heavy metals in the soil samples collected from an abandoned lead acid battery (LAB) industrial waste dumpsite in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria. This was to assess the potential risks of the heavy metals on human due to exposure among local residents (childr...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ogundele LT,Adejoro IA,Ayeku PO

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a battery of genotoxicity assays for monitoring drinking water was performed to assess the quality of the water resulting from the treatment plants. Five different types of samples were collected: raw water (P1), treated after pre-chlorination (P2), treated after decantation (P3), treated post-chlorinat...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Abda A,Benouareth DE,Tabet M,Liman R,Konuk M,Khallef M,Taher A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have attracted attention due to the potential risk they pose to ecosystems and human health. A total of 169 groundwater samples were collected from four representative regions in order to analyze PFASs concentrations in China. The total concentration of PFASs (∑PFASs) in gro...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Qiao X,Jiao L,Zhang X,Li X,Hao S,Kong M,Liu Y

更新日期：2020-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Presence of copper within water bodies deteriorates human health and degrades natural environment. This heavy metal in water is treated using a promising biochar derived from rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum) peel through slow pyrolysis. This research compares the efficacies of artificial neural network (ANN), adaptive n...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wong YJ,Arumugasamy SK,Chung CH,Selvarajoo A,Sethu V

更新日期：2020-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Irrigation water quality has important implications on salinity, ion toxicity, production cost, and crop failures. There is a need for a comprehensive analysis of spatial and temporal dynamics in parameters at a watershed scale. This information is critical for irrigation management in agricultural production. The Lak...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Yurtseven I,Randhir TO

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is an attempt to compare the pollution status in two sediment cores, one from a polluted site (Ghizri Creek) and another from a relatively unpolluted site (Sandspit). Sediment cores (45 cm in length) from coastal locations were characterized in terms of grain size, sediment composition, pH, organic matter, ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mashiatullah A,Chaudhary MZ,Ahmad N,Ahmad N,Javed T,Ghaffar A

更新日期：2015-05-01 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 focuses on development of equilibrium strategy based on simulated annealing (SA) algorithm for balancing economic and environmental concerns in waste load allocation (WLA) problem. To resolve conflicts among various stakeholders, including Iran Department of Environment (DoE) as governmental authority and i...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Saadatpour M,Afshar A,Khoshkam H,Prakash S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prices for ferro-alloys have hardened due to the closure of plants in developed countries on account of increasingly stringent pollution control legislation, resulting in a higher cost of production. A ferro-alloy industry with a capacity of 80000 MT per annum was selected to study the nature of pollution. Because of ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Reddy MK,Venkat Rao D,Rama Rao KG,Rama Mohan Rao I,Vittal Rao M

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hourly measurements of radon level at four houses in Butte, Montana were analyzed. Previous studies suggestes that there are diurnal cycles, spectral analysis confirms this assertion. Moreover, there are also long term trends and weekly cycles at certain locations. The periodical cycles highly suggest that indoor rado...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chen CL,Oksza-Chocimowski GV

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five priority areas of potential impact by contaminants (API) were investigated at the Presidente Bernardes Refinery in Cubatão, São Paulo, Brazil with the following aims: (i) to identify both organic and inorganic contaminants present in soil and groundwater; (ii) to define the environmental conditions relevant for m...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Schneider RP,Morano SC,Gigena MA,Missawa SK,Rocha RC,Da Silva LR,Ellert N,Kataoka S,Katsuragi C,Rosa Cda S,Filho LC

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contamination of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in the surface sediments of the Guan River Estuary, China was fully investigated. Total concentrations of 56 species of SVOCs ranged from 132 to 274 ng/g with an average of 186 ng/g (dry weight). Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) concentrations were posi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： He X,Song X,Pang Y,Li Y,Chen B,Feng Z

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, the process capability index is developed by assuming that the process output data are independent and follow normal distribution. However, in most environmental cases, the process data are autocorrelated. The autocorrelated process, if unrecognized as an independent process, can lead to erroneous decis...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pan JN,Li CI,Chen FY

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple applications of nanoparticles (NPs) could result in their potential release into agricultural systems and raised concerns about food safety. The NPs once released in the environment may interact with numerous pollutants, including other NPs. Present study assessed the impact of a single (CuO and ZnO NPs) and ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Singh D,Kumar A

更新日期：2019-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Groundwater is almost globally important for human consumption as well as for the support of habitat and for maintaining the quality of base flow to rivers, while its quality assessment is essential to ensure sustainable safe use of the resources for drinking, agricultural, and industrial purposes. In the current stud...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ravikumar P,Venkatesharaju K,Somashekar RK

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal levels in fish have been extensively studied, but little data currently exists for the Middle East. We examined the levels of metals and metalloids (aluminum, arsenic, copper, manganese, selenium, zinc, and mercury) in the flesh of 13 fish species collected from three fishing sites and a local fish market in Jed...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Burger J,Gochfeld M,Batang Z,Alikunhi N,Al-Jahdali R,Al-Jebreen D,Aziz MA,Al-Suwailem A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combating desertification requires the involvement of many people ranging from communities who experience the effects on a daily basis and scientists attempting to understand the biophysical and socio-economic causes and consequences of desertification, to developers and policy makers on all levels. In many instances,...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Seely M,Moser P

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal variability of phosphorus (P) transport and the relationships between discharge, suspended sediment concentration and particulate (PP), and soluble (SP) phosphorus were examined. The study was conducted at the event scale in seven tributaries of the Zarivar Lake watershed in Kurdistan Province (Iran) from...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Sadeghi SH,Ebrahimi Mohammadi S,Singh VP,Chapi K

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work tends to promote methane content in biogas and evaluate sulfur dioxide emission from direct biogas combustion without desulfurization. Analytical results of biogas combustion showed that combustion of un-desulfurized biogas exhausted more than 92% of SO₂ (P < 0.01). In the meantime, more tha...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Su JJ,Chen YJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 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 sorption of carbon tetrachloride, ethylene dibromide, and trichloroethylene in two silty clay loam soils and aluminium (Al(3+)) or calcium (Ca(2+)) saturated montmorillonite clay was studied. When the adsorbents were exposed to environmental levels of these chemicals (10 to 1000 ppb in water) the amounts of each o...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Rogers RD,McFarlane JC

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volunteer-based citizen monitoring has increasingly become part of the natural resources monitoring framework, but it is often unclear whether the data quality from these programs is sufficient for integration with traditional efforts conducted by professional scientists. At present, the biological and physical charac...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gillett DJ,Pondella DJ 2nd,Freiwald J,Schiff KC,Caselle JE,Shuman C,Weisberg SB

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 20 years, increasing dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations have been observed in several rivers and lakes in Europe. This increase has reduced the quality of the aquatic environment. In this study, UV-vis spectroscopy and synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy with a difference of 50 nm between the ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Assaad A,Pontvianne S,Corriou JP,Pons MN

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The applicability of the headspace liquid phase microextraction and gas chromatography (HS-LPME/GC) for the expeditious and reliable screening of 68 well water samples for selected fuel oxygenates compounds, viz. methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), tertiary-amyl methyl ether (TAME), ethyl tertiary-butyl ether (ETBE) a...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kaykhaii M,Mirbaloochzahi MR

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Croatian part of the Danube River extends over 188 km and comprises 58 % of the country's overall area used for commercial freshwater fishing. To date, the heavy metal contamination of fish in the Croatian part of the Danube has not been studied. The main purpose of this study was to determine heavy metal levels i...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zrnčić S,Oraić D,Ćaleta M,Mihaljević Ž,Zanella D,Bilandžić N

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00