New method for environmental monitoring in armed conflict zones: a case study of Syria.

abstract：:In Mexico, 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane (DDT) was used until the year 2000, principally in agriculture and anti-paludal program health campaigns. The southeastern region of Mexico was an important area of malaria, and from 1957 DDT was applied indoors every 6 months, with a coverage of 2 g/m(2). The c...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Torres-Dosal A,Martinez-Salinas RI,Hernandez-Benavides D,Perez-Vazquez FJ,Ilizaliturri-Hernandez C,Perez-Maldonado IN

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical and chemical (nutrients and major ions) indicators of water quality monitored by Environment Canada between 1977 and 1987 in the Niagara River at Niagara-on-the-Lake and in the St. Lawrence River at Wolfe Island are analyzed for seasonal and annual variations. Parametric methods such as moving averages and li...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Tsanis IK,El-Shaarawi AH

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three bench-scale rock filters containing 0.6 m of gravel were used in this investigation. Two of the filters were planted withSagittaria Iancifolia andScirpus validus, while the third filter was an unvegetated control filter. The wastewater directed through these systems was a synthetic mixture containing nutrient br...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Skipper D,Tittlebaum M

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyses elemental composition of suspended particulate matter (SPM) samples collected monthly from 1999 to 2005 at two locations in Yokohama, Japan. Microwave digestion and inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy was employed to measure Mg, Al, Ca, V, Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, As, Se, Rb, Sr, Ag, Cd, ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Khan MF,Shirasuna Y,Hirano K,Masunaga S

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury emission from coal-fired power stations, situated in Poland in the Silesian region was investigated. The determination methods for mercury in the consumed coal and in combustion gas, used in this research, are described. The mass of mercury emitted into the air from coal combustion in the power station is in c...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mniszek W

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study addressed the impact of the El Niño 2015-2016 on the ecosystem functioning and the subsequent effects on the distribution and community structure of zooplankton in the Kavaratti reef, a prominent coral atoll in the tropical Indian Ocean. The elevated ocean temperature (SST) associated with El Niño resulted i...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Vineetha G,Karati KK,Raveendran TV,Idrees Babu KK,Riyas C,Muhsin MI,Shihab BK,Simson C,Anil P

更新日期：2018-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of the effects of exogenous abscisic acid (ABA) addition on cadmium (Cd) accumulation of two ecotypes (mining and farmland) of Solanum photeinocarpum was operated through a pot experiment. The results showed that the biomass and chlorophyll content of the two ecotypes of S. photeinocarpum increased with incr...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wang J,Lin L,Luo L,Liao M,Lv X,Wang Z,Liang D,Xia H,Wang X,Lai Y,Tang Y

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The water quality index (WQI) is an important tool for water resource management and planning. However, it has major disadvantages: the generation of chemical waste, is costly, and time-consuming. In order to overcome these drawbacks, we propose to simplify this index determination by replacing traditional analytical ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Alves EM,Rodrigues RJ,Dos Santos Corrêa C,Fidemann T,Rocha JC,Buzzo JLL,de Oliva Neto P,Núñez EGF

更新日期：2018-05-02 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：:This study sought to analyze heavy metal (Pb, Zn, Cu, Ni, Mn, and Fe) pollution status in the waters of Aibi Lake in northwest China through the use of an applied comprehensive pollution index, health risk model, and multivariate statistical analyses in combination with the lake's land use types. Results showed that (...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhaoyong Z,Xiaodong Y,Shengtian Y

更新日期：2018-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentration levels of six natural and anthropogenic origin steroid estrogens, namely, diethylstilbestrol (DES), estrone (E1), estradiol (E2), estriol (E3), ethinylestradiol (EE2), and estradiol-17-valerate (Ev), from different effluents in Beijing were assessed. Sampling sites include two wastewater treatment plants...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhou Y,Zha J,Xu Y,Lei B,Wang Z

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple, handly and powerful tool, called the DIMO model based on the Shannon-Wiener index, has been developed for analysis and evaluation of species diversity at plant community (alpha) level. Three axes, i.e. species richness, species evenness and the Shannon-Wiener index, were plotted in a two-dimensional space. A...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Qinghong L

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determined the levels of As, Cu, Pb, and Cd in fish from Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Metal levels were compared with international standards. The levels among fish types and origin, the relationship among metals, and the correlation between...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Obaidat MM,Massadeh AM,Al-Athamneh AM,Jaradat QM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, index of entropy and catastrophe theory methods were used for demarcating groundwater potential in an arid region using weighted linear combination techniques in geographical information system (GIS) environment. A case study from Badra area in the eastern part of central of Iraq was analyzed and discus...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Al-Abadi AM,Shahid S

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms and the toxins they produce are a global water-quality problem. Monitoring and prediction tools are needed to quickly predict cyanotoxin action-level exceedances in recreational and drinking waters used by the public. To address this need, data were collected at eight locations in O...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Francy DS,Brady AMG,Stelzer EA,Cicale JR,Hackney C,Dalby HD,Struffolino P,Dwyer DF

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute salinity tolerance of three tropical freshwater cladoceran species, M. macleayi, C. rigaudii and D. brachyurum was determined. The existence of these species represented new records for Trinidad and Tobago, a tropical Caribbean island. It has a large oil based industry, in which, the primary effluent (saline...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mohammed A,Agard JB

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple box model computing time-averaged concentrations in soil and water of contaminants such as pesticides, following a pulse emission under the assumption of constant removal rates, is presented and evaluated against a benchmark model and some lysimeter experiments representative of different soil and climate set...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pistocchi A

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because natural ecosystems and ecosystem services (ES) are both critical to the well-being of humankind, it is important to understand their relationships and congruence for conservation planning. Spatial conservation planning is required to set focused preservation priorities and to assess future ecological implicati...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Xiao Y,Xiao Q

更新日期：2018-03-29 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：:Contamination of heavy metals, namely, lead, cadmium, zinc, nickel, copper, chromium and mercury was evaluated in the samples of water and tissues of Labeo rohita and Ctenopharyngodon idella of Upper Lake of Bhopal collected during summer, rainy and winter seasons of 2005-2006. Different organs of the fishes accumulat...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Malik N,Biswas AK,Qureshi TA,Borana K,Virha R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wet deposition is an important process that removes pollutants from the atmosphere and transfers them to waters and soil. The goal of this study was to assess the biological effects of the atmospheric contamination of rainwater in the metropolitan area of São Paulo (MASP) using Daphnia similis, Ceriodaphnia dubia, and...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Martins RS,Abessa DM,Fornaro A,Borrely SI

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of future management and policy options based on different assumptions provide a mechanism to examine possible outcomes and especially their likely benefits and consequences. The San Pedro River in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico is an area that has undergone rapid changes in land use and cover, and subsequently is...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kepner WG,Semmens DJ,Bassett SD,Mouat DA,Goodrich DC

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:The Eastern Cape Subtropical Thicket (ECST) froms the transition between forest, semiarid karroid shrublands, and grassland in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Undegraded ECST forms an impenetrable, spiny thicket up to 3 m high consisting of a wealth of growth forms, including evergreen plants, succulent and deciduous ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kerley GI,Knight MH,de Kock M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) used extensively over the past 3 decades as flame retardants in most types of polymers, all over the world, have been identified as global pollutants. PBDEs pose various health problems such as thyroid hormone disruption, permanent learning and memory impairment, behavioral chang...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kumari K,Sharma JK,Kanade GS,Kashyap SM,Juwarkar AA,Wate SR

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Columbia River at the Hanford Site, located in south-central Washington State, U.S.A., is a regionally important refugium for overwintering birds. Some of the river shoreline has been designated by the U.S. Department of Energy for environmental clean-up following past production of materials for nuclear weapons. ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Becker JM,McKinstry CA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rain water samples were collected to study the chemical composition of wet atmospheric precipitation (first event) over the Lucknow city in the northern Indo-gangetic alluvial plains. The samples were collected in the month of July, 2005 from different sites. The wet precipitation samples were analyzed for pH, EC, maj...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Singh KP,Singh VK,Malik A,Sharma N,Murthy RC,Kumar R

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:The use of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) is a worldwide public health concern given that high levels of these compounds in humans and animals can lead to serious health problems. This study aimed to evaluate the levels of 15 organochlorine pesticides in the serum of 547 blood donors in the São Paulo metropolitan re...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： do Nascimento FP,Kuno R,Lemes VRR,Kussumi TA,Nakano VE,Rocha SB,de Oliveira MCC,de Albuquerque Kimura I,Gouveia N

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil erosion is an open topic, not only because soil fertility is lost, but also because nutrients are spilled into water bodies, thereby causing pollution. Research carried out in this field has amply described this process, but the interaction between these factors is complex and experimental research is needed to u...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Petroselli A,Leone A,Ripa MN,Recanatesi F

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00