Applications of a SWAT model to evaluate the contribution of the Tafna catchment (north-west Africa) to the nitrate load entering the Mediterranean Sea.

abstract：:Algae have an ample potential to produce biodiesel from spent wash of food industry. In addition, it is cheaper and presents an environment friendly way to handle food industry wastewater. This study was conducted to optimize the growth of microalgal strains and to assess biodiesel production potential of algae using ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mureed K,Kanwal S,Hussain A,Noureen S,Hussain S,Ahmad S,Ahmad M,Waqas R

更新日期：2018-04-10 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：: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：:In the past, scientific research has predicted a decrease in the effectiveness of Bt cotton due to the rise of secondary and other sucking pests. It is suspected that once the primary pest is brought under control, secondary pests have a chance to emerge due to the lower pesticide applications in Bt cotton cultivars. ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhao JH,Ho P,Azadi H

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:A water quality monitoring network (WQMN) must be designed so as to adequately protect the water quality in a catchment. Although a simulated annealing (SA) method was previously applied to design a WQMN, the SA method cannot ensure the solution it obtained is the global optimum. Therefore, two new linear optimization...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kao JJ,Li PH,Hu WS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of spatio-temporal patterns of the urban growth phenomenon has become one of the most significant challenges in monitoring and assessing current and future trends of the urban growth issue. Therefore, spatio-temporal and quantitative techniques should be used hand in hand for a deeper understanding ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Aburas MM,Ho YM,Ramli MF,Ash'aari ZH

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospheric surface aerosol radiative forcing (SARF) DeltaF, forcing efficiency DeltaF(e) and fractional forcing efficiency DeltaFF(e) evaluated from cloud-screened narrowband spectral and thermal-offset-corrected radiometric observations during the Asia dust outbreak episodes in Gwangju, Republic of Korea are reporte...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ogunjobi KO,Kim YJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural ecosystems are renewable resources with special environmental, social, and economical attributes and characteristics. The increasing need of human beings for a better environment results in the use of new technologies that offer many advantages in detecting changes in the ecosystems. Remote sensing tools, tech...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Meliadis I,Platis P,Ainalis A,Meliadis M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades, disposal of hazardous material has become a challenging task especially in case of landfills where leaching out of waste is possible. In such cases, an efficient and economical liner system using locally available material is very essential. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study the suita...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gopinath R,Poopathi R,Vasanthavigar M,Arun R,Mahadevan M

更新日期：2018-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological marine system in the Mediterranean Sea off Alexandria, Egypt, was investigated to recognise its biodiversity and the relations among "ichthyofauna, invertebrates, and benthic" cover including biota and flora, as well as seabed bathymetry during 2017 using a multi-seasonal surveys by the commercial botto...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Farrag MMS,El-Naggar HA,Abou-Mahmoud MMA,Alabssawy AN,Ahmed HO,Abo-Taleb HA,Kostas K

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Blended water, always existing in a drinking water distribution system (DWDS) with different sources, can cause some unintended results, including corrosion and/or release of corrosion by-products. Although some studies have specially focused on the blended water in DWDSs, the water quality characteristics, variations...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhang H,Wang K,Zhou X,Zhu W,Wang W

更新日期：2018-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a comparison of pollutant load estimations for runoff from two geographically distinct residential suburban neighborhoods in northern and southern California. The two neighborhoods represent a single urban land use type: low-density residential in small catchments (<0.3 km2) under differing regiona...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Bale AE,Greco SE,Pitton BJL,Haver DL,Oki LR

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty seven topsoil samples were collected under stable weather conditions from the northern and southern sides of Tehran-Karaj Highway, Iran. Samples were analyzed for heavy metal (Pb, V, Zn, Ni, Co, Cr, Cd, and Mn) contents and leaching characteristics. The results showed that all heavy metal contents except Cr, Mn...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Saeedi M,Hosseinzadeh M,Jamshidi A,Pajooheshfar SP

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs) were deployed in the Columbia Slough, near Portland, Oregon, on three separate occasions to measure the spatial and seasonal distribution of dissolved polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and organochlorine compounds (OCs) in the slough. Concentrations of PAHs and OCs in SPMDs...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： McCarthy K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A decision analysis method for integrating environmental indicators was developed. This was a combination of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP). Being able to take into account the interdependency among variables, the method was capable of ranking ecosystems in terms of environme...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Tran LT,Knight CG,O'Neill RV,Smith ER

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the rapid advancement of industrialization without effective supervision, industrial aquatic toxic metal (TM) emissions pose threats to human health in China. Due to differences in socioeconomic development, the regional disparity of industrial aquatic TM emissions is obvious nationwide. In this study, the human ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Huang Y,Zhou B,Han R,Lu X,Li S,Li N

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In many coastal regions, the disposal of dredged material constitutes the largest (albeit often localised) anthropogenic disturbance to the seabed. Impacts can be minimised by reducing the amount of sediment overburden on the bed at any one time allowing short-term recovery to proceed via the vertical migration of res...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Bolam SG

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation was performed to measure concentrations of major and trace elements in surficial wetland sediments in the southern Tibetan Plateau in order to assess the sediment quality. Results showed that most of elements have concentrations comparable to those of the Tibetan surface soil (TSS) except for As, Ca, ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhang Q,Kang S,Li C,Chen F,Boukalova Z,Cerný I

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Road-deposited sediment (RDS) is an important environmental medium that affects the characteristics of heavy metals in stormwater runoff. 62 RDS samples were collected from four different land use types (commercial, residential, intense traffic and riverside park) in the Zhenjiang city of China. The samples were analy...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhu W,Bian B,Li L

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of ground-level ozone in beech forests depends not only on the pollution intensity but also on the other environmental factors. This paper presents the analysis of the concentrations of ground-level ozone during the growing season (April-September) of beech trees, which represent the main objects modifying ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Janík R,Kubov M,Schieber B

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Groundwater pollution resulting from anthropogenic activities and poor effluent management is on the rise in Nigeria. Hence, groundwater used for domestic purposes is questionable and therefore calls for scientific scrutiny. Investigation of hydrochemical interactions and quality of groundwater resource is essential i...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Emenike PC,Nnaji CC,Tenebe IT

更新日期：2018-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Two PCP-degrading bacterial strains, Bacillus cereus (ITRC-S6) and Serratia marcescens (ITRC-S7) were used for the treatment of pulp and paper mill effluent at conditions; 1.0% glucose and 0.5% peptone at 30 +/- 1 degrees C at 120 rpm for 168 h of incubation. These two bacterial strains effectively reduced colour (45-...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chandra R,Raj A,Yadav S,Patel DK

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wind energy is a renewable energy resource that has increased in usage in most countries. Site selection for the establishment of large wind turbines, called wind farms, like any other engineering project, requires basic information and careful planning. This study assessed the possibility of establishing wind farms i...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Azizi A,Malekmohammadi B,Jafari HR,Nasiri H,Amini Parsa V

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：: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：: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：:The present investigation was intended to assess the seawater quality of Digha (India) in the northwestern coast of the Bay of Bengal. Digha is a meso-tidal coastal plain located between two major estuarine systems, i.e. Subarnarekha and Hooghly located respectively on the western and eastern sides of the West Bengal ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pitchaikani JS,Kadharsha K,Mukherjee S

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:We use data from a survey of several hundred lakes in the northeastern United States by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to illustrate an approach to identifying promising indicators of lake condition. We construct a hypothetical gold standard of water quality from the first principal component of 16 chemical ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Murtaugh PA,Pooler PS

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00