abstract：:Heavy metal contamination in agricultural soils has become a serious environmental concern due to their generally high mobility and toxic effects on plants and food security. An incubation study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of biochar (BC), zeolite (ZE) and rock phosphate (RP) stabilizers on the immobiliz...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Bashir S,Rizwan MS,Salam A,Fu Q,Zhu J,Shaaban M,Hu H

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the bioaccumulation potential of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in an aquatic food web, we measured the concentrations of nine PFAAs in the water and aquatic organisms from an estuary of the Omuta River, Japan. Average log bioaccumulation factors for all PFAAs ranged from 2.0 to 2.8. There was no positive co...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Kobayashi J,Maeda Y,Imuta Y,Ishihara F,Nakashima N,Komorita T,Sakurai T

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, atmospheric mercury concentration in airborne particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2.5 µm (PM2.5) was analyzed by ICP-MS. Samples were collected in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA), during 2013, in five locations, Northwest, Northeast (NE), Central, Southwest and Southeast, along th...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Morton-Bermea O,Garza-Galindo R,Hernández-Álvarez E,Ordoñez-Godínez SL,Amador-Muñoz O,Beramendi-Orosco L,Miranda J,Rosas-Pérez I

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are of concern for both ecosystem and human health due to their potential teratogenic, carcinogenic, and mutagenic properties. The concentration of ∑16PAHs in foliar dust ranged from 49.4 to 19,018.1 µg kg-1, with a mean value of 7074.5 µg kg-1. There were significant seasonal v...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zha Y,Zhang Y,Ma Z,Tang J,Sun K

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bird feathers have been proven to be reliable indicators of metal exposure originating from contaminated food and polluted environments. The concentrations of 15 essential and non-essential metals were investigated in African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) feathers from a Northwestern Italian zoological facility. Thes...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Squadrone S,Abete MC,Brizio P,Pessani D,Favaro L

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The residues of persistent organochlorinated pollutants (POPs), namely polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) (HCHs, CHLs, HCCPs, DDTs, and dicofol congeners) were investigated in the hair and muscle of road-killed Erinaceus roumanicus and E. concolor in Turkey. Mean residue levels were ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Arıkan K,Arıkan ZY,Turan SL

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the concentration and congener patterns of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) in outdoor air from farmland area, air samples were collected using passive and active sample methods from April to November 2012, in an e-waste dismantling town in the Guangzhou region of South China. The sum of gaseous an...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Jiao X,Wang Y,Chen S,Liu J,Tian Q,Hou L,Lu G,Yang Y

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to assess the sulphate [Formula: see text] and iron (Fe) contamination and seasonal variations in the water resources (groundwater, surface water, and mine water) of the West Bokaro coalfield region, India. One hundred and twenty-four water resources samples were collected from the coa...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Tiwari AK,De Maio M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of atmospheric PM10- and PM2.5-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were investigated in Tongling city, China. Results showed that the total concentrations of PM10- and PM2.5-bound PAHs exhibited distinct seasonal and spatial variability. The metallurgic sites showed the highest PAH concen...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zhang H,Wang R,Xue H,Hu R,Liu G

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil mercury concentrations at a typical small-scale mine site in the Bolivian Andes were elevated (28-737 mg/kg or ppm) in localized areas where mercury amalgams were either formed or vaporized to release gold, but was not detectable beyond approximately 10 m from its sources. Arsenic was measurable, exceeding known ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Johnson GD,Pavilonis B,Caravanos J,Grassman J

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canada has experienced a significant increase in the transport of diluted bitumen (dilbit), a predominant oil sands product that combines bitumen with diluents derived from oil-gas condensates and other proprietary compounds. The proportion of diluent and the chemical composition of dilbit vary to meet seasonal transp...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Alsaadi F,Hodson PV,Langlois VS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study shows the effect of soil type and temperature on the adsorption and desorption behaviour of pendimethalin using a batch equilibration technique. Adsorption kinetics followed pseudo-second-order-model (R2 > 0.99). The shape of adsorption curve for studied soils was S-type at 30 and 40°C and L-type at 50°C. T...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Kaur P,Makkar A,Kaur P,Shilpa

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legislation such as the Stockholm Convention and REACH aim to identify and regulate the production and use of chemicals that qualify as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and very persistent and very bioaccumulative (vPvB) chemicals, respectively. Recently, a series of studies on planetary boundary threats proposed ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Reppas-Chrysovitsinos E,Sobek A,MacLeod M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need to develop an approach for the reclamation of contaminated site using locally available agricultural waste has been considered. The present study investigated the application of sawdust as an effective amendment in the immobilization of potentially toxic metals (PTMs) by conducting a greenhouse experiment on ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Awokunmi EE

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：:Open top chambers were used to study the changes in photosynthesis, physiology and stomata characteristics in 1-year-old Lonicera maackii seedlings exposed to drought (DT, 30%-35% soil saturated water content) or/and elevated ozone (EO, 80 ppb). The results showed that DT or/and EO significantly decreased net photosyn...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Xu S,Fu W,He X,Chen W,Zhang W,Li B,Huang Y

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) such as benz[a]anthracene (BA) and dibenz[a,h]anthracene (DBA), which are considered toxic, are frequently found in contaminated soils in Mexico. A laboratory-scale study monitored the degradation of the mixture of these two PAHs in three soils from different Mexican states (Tab...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Corona L,Dendooven L,Chicken A,Hernández O,Iturbe R

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of cadmium (Cd) exposure on metal accumulation and energy metabolism of silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) were studied during 14 days. The results showed that Cd accumulated in tissues of silver carp significantly with time and Cd concentration, as the order: liver > kidney > gill > muscle. The levels ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Li D,Pi J,Wang J,Zhu P,Liu D,Zhang T

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective benchmarks for the effects of total suspended solids (TSS) on freshwater aquatic biota primarily focus on fish; whether these benchmarks will also protect their prey or co-existing lower trophic level aquatic biota was uncertain. We conducted an extensive literature review of TSS effects on those organisms ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Chapman PM,Hayward A,Faithful J

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have documented environmental contamination by PCBs in soil from different areas in Mexico (industrial, mining, and urban sites). However, the real significance of that soil contamination has not been established. Therefore, the aim of this study was to perform a human health risk assessment (Monte Carl...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Pérez-Maldonado IN,Ochoa Martínez ÁC,Ruíz-Vera T,Orta-García ST,Varela-Silva JA

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：:Accumulation of copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) in gill, liver and muscle tissues of Oreochromis niloticus and its effects on superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activities in gill and liver tissues were studied after exposing the fish to 20 µg/L Cu over 15 days. Copper lev...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Tunçsoy M,Duran S,Ay Ö,Cicik B,Erdem C

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, a simple, mono step deep eutectic solvent (DES) extraction was developed for selective extraction of copper from sediment samples. The optimization of all experimental parameters, e.g. DES type, sample/DES ratio, contact time and temperature were performed with using BCR-280 R (lake sediment cert...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Bağda E,Altundağ H,Tüzen M,Soylak M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little information has so far been known on the effects of synthetic progestogen dydrogesterone (DDG) in organisms like fish. This study aimed to investigate the effects of DDG on the transcriptional and biochemical alterations in zebrafish eleuthero-embryos. Zebrafish eleuthero-embryos were analyzed for the transcrip...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Shi WJ,Ying GG,Huang GY,Liang YQ,Hu LX,Zhao JL,Zhang JN

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study delineates the effect of repeated application of butachlor to rice crop from 1997 onwards. Additionally, in 2014 and 2015, dissipation kinetics of butachlor in soil was studied under field and laboratory conditions. The average recovery of butachlor for soil, rice grain and rice straw ranged between 80.3%-93...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Kaur P,Randhawa SK,Duhan A,Bhullar MS

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni) and lead (Pb) contamination was investigated in wheat cultivated rain-fed and irrigated rural agricultural soils (n = 31) of Tonalite-Trondjhemite Series in Central India. The soil sampling was carried out by using stratified random sampling method. The mean concentrations of Cr, Ni and Pb w...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Shukla K,Kumar B,Agrawal R,Priyanka K,Venkatesh M,Anshumali

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the concentrations of arsenic and boron were determined in the water and the sediment, as well as in the muscle tissues of Squalius cephalus, Alburnoides bipunctatus, Barbus plebejus and Capoeta tinca from Emet Stream. The fish samples were caught in May 2011 and September 2012. The metal concentrations...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Benzer S

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil and groundwater from long-term (>50 years) tannery effluent irrigated areas of Kanpur were analyzed and significant buildup of heavy metals such as Cr, Ni, Cd, Pb, Zn, and As in the range of 252-972, 23-30, 2.3-14.1, 23.7-58.8, 138-338 and 6.8-11 mg kg-1, respectively in soil was found. Few groundwater samples in...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Dotaniya ML,Meena VD,Rajendiran S,Coumar MV,Saha JK,Kundu S,Patra AK

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavior of the mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) toward the Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) was tested under exposure to environmental 17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2), a synthetic derivative of natural estrogen, estradiol. The mosquitofish were exposed to EE2 at different concentrations-0, 0.5, 5.0, and 50.0 ng/L-for 2 da...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Dang HM,Inagaki Y,Yamauchi Y,Kurihara T,Vo CH,Sakakibara Y

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyphosate-based herbicides are widely used in agricultural systems. Although the target organism are particularly plant organisms, there are numerous studies showing adverse effects in aquatic animals, such as inhibition of acetyl cholinesterase, effects on kidney, liver, and gill and stressors effects. This study an...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Giaquinto PC,de Sá MB,Sugihara VS,Gonçalves BB,Delício HC,Barki A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water samples were collected to evaluate the groundwater quality in the shallow unconfined alluvial aquifer in the eastern part of Abu-Dhabi Emirate, UAE. The chemical monitoring revealed some spatial variability in chemical parameters as influenced by matrix aquifer changes in geological formations. Results show that...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Mohamed MM,Murad A,Chowdhury R

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphate and colloidal gas aphrons (CGAs) generated from saponin extracted from Sapindus mukorossi fruit, were evaluated for washing low levels of arsenic from an iron rich soil. Phosphate is one of the most commonly dispersed chemicals that increases arsenic mobility in soil due to their structural similarities, mak...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Mukhopadhyay S,Mukherjee S,Hashim MA,Sen Gupta B

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioaugmentation-assisted phytoremediation implies the administration of selected plant growth promoting bacteria, which significantly improve plant growth and sequestration of heavy metals. In this work, 184 bacterial strains associated with roots of Pistacia lentiscus were isolated from plants spontaneously growing i...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Tamburini E,Sergi S,Serreli L,Bacchetta G,Milia S,Cappai G,Carucci A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and rapid focused ultrasound extraction method was developed for the determination of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in liver tissue obtained of giant toad (Rhinella marina) using a gas chromatography coupled to a mass detector with electron impact ionization. The performed method for POPs, was validate...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Flores-Ramírez R,Espinosa-Reyes G,Cilia-López VG,González-Mille DJ,Rodríguez-Aguilar M,Díaz de León-Martínez L,Díaz-Barriga F

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 50 surface industrial area soil in Eskisehir, Turkey were collected and the concentrations of As, Cr, Cd, Co, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn, Fe and Mg, at 11.34, 95.8, 1.37, 15.28, 33.06, 143.65, 14.34, 78.79 mg/kg, 188.80% and 78.70%, respectively. The EF values for As, Cu, Pb and Zn at a number of sampling sites were fo...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Malkoc S,Yazici B

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic toxicity testing using the luminescent bacterium, Vibrio fischeri, has recently been demonstrated to be a suitable bioassay for water quality monitoring. The toxicity evaluation is typically based on determining the EC50 at specific time points which may lead to overlooking the dynamic nature of luminescence r...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Nasuhoglu D,Westlund P,Isazadeh S,Neamatallah S,Yargeau V

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the concentrations of airborne heavy metals (HMs) in particulate matter with a cutoff size of 10 µm (i.e., PM10) in an industrialized urban area (Naraina Industrial Area) of New Delhi, India. The samples were collected from January to December, 2011. The annual mean concentrations of selected HMs w...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Mandal P,Sarkar R,Mandal A,Patel P,Kamal N

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The algal growth and physiological characters of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae were studied under the stress of Sagittaria sagittifolia extract. The results showed that the growth of A. flos-aquae was significantly inhibited by S. sagittifolia extract. The exopolysaccharide (EPS), total soluble protein, intracellular phosp...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zhang SH,Xu PY,Chang JJ

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged use of biosolids with high metal content may result in diffuse pollution across large regions, especially if such ions can move freely through the soil profile and reach underground water sources. The objective of this study was to verify whether Cr added to the soil surface in the form of hydrolysed leather...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Bavaresco J,Fink JR,Rodrigues ML,Gianello C,Barrón V,Torrent J

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogenic activities of river water from four representative cross-sections of the Yellow River (Zhengzhou section) and their effects on reproduction and development of fish were assessed. MVLN assay showed estradiol equivalents of river water from Yiluohe, Xinmanghe, Qinhe and Huayuankou cross-sections were 1.09 ± 0...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Song WT,Wang ZJ

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00