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1. Substance-related environmental monitoring

Author:
Rüdel, Heinz; Schröder, Winfried; von der Trenck, Karl Theo; Wiesmüller, Gerhard Andreas
Source:
Environmental science and pollution research international 2009 v.16 no.5 pp. 486-498
ISSN:
0944-1344
Subject:
European Union; analytical methods; bioaccumulation; ecosystems; ecotoxicology; environmental monitoring; environmental quality; hydrophobicity; planning; pollution; quality control; soil; spatial distribution
Abstract:
... Background Due to the requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive and other legal regulations (e.g., national laws like the German Federal Soil Protection Act), but also due to the implementation of the new EU chemicals management system REACH, environmental monitoring will gain increasing importance for the surveillance of environmental quality as well as for the assessment of chemicals. Aga ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11356-008-0085-1

2. AhR agonist and genotoxicant bioavailability in a PAH-contaminated soil undergoing biological treatment

Author:
Andersson, Erika; Rotander, Anna; von Kronhelm, Thomas; Berggren, Anna; Ivarsson, Per; Hollert, Henner; Engwall, Magnus
Source:
Environmental science and pollution research international 2009 v.16 no.5 pp. 521-530
ISSN:
0944-1344
Subject:
DNA damage; agonists; bioassays; bioavailability; biodegradation; biological treatment; bioremediation; chemical analysis; gene expression; genotoxicity; luciferase; mixing; polychlorinated dibenzodioxins; polychlorinated dibenzofurans; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; risk; risk assessment; soil; soil analysis; soil toxicity; temperature; toluene; toxic substances
Abstract:
... Background, aim, and scope Degradation of the 16 US EPA priority PAHs in soil subjected to bioremediation is often achieved. However, the PAH loss is not always followed by a reduction in soil toxicity. For instance, bioanalytical testing of such soil using the chemical-activated luciferase gene expression (CALUX) assay, measuring the combined effect of all Ah receptor (AhR) activating compounds, ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11356-009-0121-9
PubMed:
19296140

3. An analysis of long-term changes in airborne toxic metals in South Korea's two largest cities from 1991 to 2004

Author:
Kim, Ki-Hyun; Ma, Chang-Jin; Okuda, Tomoaki
Source:
Environmental science and pollution research international 2009 v.16 no.5 pp. 565-572
ISSN:
0944-1344
Subject:
air; atomic absorption spectrometry; bioaccumulation; cadmium; chromium; cities; lead; manganese; nickel; pollutants; probability; regression analysis; toxicity; urban areas; China; South Korea; United States; Western European region
Abstract:
... Background, aim, and scope Investigations on the temporal variabilities of metals generally show that the concentration levels of many harmful metals in air have been continuously decreasing around the world including North America and Western Europe. However, an excursion from such trends has been expected and demonstrated from E. Asia due to the major source contribution from China. To help unde ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11356-009-0104-x
PubMed:
19259721

4. Assessing spatial patterns of metal bioaccumulation in French mosses by means of an exposure index

Author:
Holy, Marcel; Leblond, Sébastien; Pesch, Roland; Schröder, Winfried
Source:
Environmental science and pollution research international 2009 v.16 no.5 pp. 499-507
ISSN:
0944-1344
Subject:
altitude; antimony; arsenic; bioaccumulation; cadmium; chromium; copper; decision support systems; emissions; heavy metals; iron; lead; mercury; mosses and liverworts; nickel; nitrogen; statistics; surveys; trees; vanadium; vegetation; zinc; Alps region; France
Abstract:
... Background, aim and scope The European Heavy Metals in Mosses Surveys (UNECE-ICP Vegetation) is a programme performed every 5 years since 1990 in at least 21 European countries. The moss surveys aim at uncovering the spatiotemporal patterns of metal and nitrogen bioaccumulation in mosses. In France, the moss survey was conducted for the third time in 2006. Five hundred thirty-six monitoring sites ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11356-009-0146-0
PubMed:
19347376

5. DOC removal paradigms in highly humic aquatic ecosystems

Author:
Farjalla, Vinicius F.; Amado, André M.; Suhett, Albert L.; Meirelles-Pereira, Frederico
Source:
Environmental science and pollution research international 2009 v.16 no.5 pp. 531-538
ISSN:
0944-1344
Subject:
aquatic food webs; bacteria; carbon; dissolved organic carbon; ecosystems; energy; humic substances; isotopes; lakes; microbial ecology; microbial growth; mineralization; seasonal variation; solar radiation; zooplankton
Abstract:
... Background, aim, and scope Dissolved humic substances (HS) usually comprise 50-80% of the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in aquatic ecosystems. From a trophic and biogeochemical perspective, HS has been considered to be highly refractory and is supposed to accumulate in the water. The upsurge of the microbial loop paradigm and the studies on HS photo-degradation into labile DOC gave rise to the be ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11356-009-0165-x
PubMed:
19462194

6. Effect of soil and sediment composition on acetochlor sorption and desorption

Author:
Hiller, Edgar; Čerňanský, Slavomír; Krascsenits, Zoltán; Milička, Ján
Source:
Environmental science and pollution research international 2009 v.16 no.5 pp. 546-554
ISSN:
0944-1344
Subject:
acetochlor; broadleaf weeds; calcium carbonate; carbon; corn; desorption; environmental fate; fulvic acids; humus; potatoes; rivers; sediments; simulation models; soil; soil organic carbon; water reservoirs
Abstract:
... Background, aim, and scope Herbicide fate and its transport in soils and sediments greatly depend upon sorption-desorption processes. Quantitative determination of herbicide sorption-desorption is therefore essential for both the understanding of transport and the sorption equilibrium in the soil/sediment-water system; and it is also an important parameter for predicting herbicide fate using mathe ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11356-009-0113-9
PubMed:
19277747

7. Formation of chlorinated disinfection by-products in viticulture

Author:
Barhorst, Jan Bernd; Kubiak, Roland
Source:
Environmental science and pollution research international 2009 v.16 no.5 pp. 582-589
ISSN:
0944-1344
Subject:
adverse effects; byproducts; carbon tetrachloride; chlorination; chloroform; dichloroacetic acid; disinfection; effluents; environmental impact; gas chromatography; mass spectrometry; organic matter; sewage treatment; sodium hypochlorite; viticulture; wine quality
Abstract:
... Background, aim and scope The use of sodium hypochlorite (HYP) in viticulture results in effluents which are contaminated with halogenated substances. These disinfection by-products (DBPs) can be quantified as group parameter 'adsorbable organic halogens' (AOX) and have not been determined in effluents of viticulture yet. The substances that are detected as AOX are unknown. The AOX can be composed ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11356-009-0186-5
PubMed:
19479293

8. Hybrid regimes of knowledge? Challenges for constructing scientific evidence in the context of the GMO-debate

Author:
Böschen, Stefan
Source:
Environmental science and pollution research international 2009 v.16 no.5 pp. 508-520
ISSN:
0944-1344
Subject:
genetically modified organisms; humans; hybrids; interviews; issues and policy; nongovernmental organizations; politics; precautionary principle; qualitative analysis; risk; risk assessment
Abstract:
... Background, aim, and scope Over the last two decades, there has been a remarkable shift of attention to the scientific and political fundamentals of the precautionary principle. The application of this principle has become a main strategy of coping with the different forms and problems related to non-knowledge. Thus, societies are increasingly confronted with the challenging and hitherto unresolve ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11356-009-0164-y
PubMed:
19452181

9. Response of antioxidant enzymes in Nicotiana tabacum clones during phytoextraction of heavy metals

Author:
Lyubenova, Lyudmila; Nehnevajova, Erika; Herzig, Rolf; Schröder, Peter
Source:
Environmental science and pollution research international 2009 v.16 no.5 pp. 573-581
ISSN:
0944-1344
Subject:
Nicotiana tabacum; ammonium nitrate; ammonium sulfate; antioxidant activity; ascorbate peroxidase; biomass; cadmium; catalase; clones; enzyme activity; fertilizer application; fertilizers; glutathione peroxidase; glutathione transferase; glutathione-disulfide reductase; heavy metals; leaves; metal tolerance; mutants; nitrogen; phytoremediation; plant growth; pollutants; polluted soils; stress tolerance; superoxide dismutase; tobacco; zinc
Abstract:
... Background, aim, and scope Tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum, is a widely used model plant for growth on heavy-metal-contaminated sites. Its high biomass and deep rooting system make it interesting for phytoextraction. In the present study, we investigated the antioxidative activities and glutathione-dependent enzymes of different tobacco clones optimized for better Cd and Zn accumulation in order to cha ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11356-009-0175-8
PubMed:
19440744

10. The astysphere and urban geochemistry--a new approach to integrate urban systems into the geoscientific concept of spheres and a challenging concept of modern geochemistry supporting the sustainable development of planet earth

Author:
Norra, Stefan
Source:
Environmental science and pollution research international 2009 v.16 no.5 pp. 539-545
ISSN:
0944-1344
Subject:
anthropogenic activities; atmosphere; biodiversity; climate; climate change; crosslinking; ecosystems; elements; energy; gases; geochemistry; humans; industrialization; models; people; society; sustainable development; urbanization
Abstract:
... Background, aim, and scope In 1875, the geoscientist Walter Suess introduced several spheres, such as the lithosphere and the atmosphere to promote a comprehensive understanding of the system earth. Since then, this idea became the dominating concept for the understanding of the distribution of chemical elements in the system earth. Meanwhile, due to the importance of human beings on global elemen ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11356-009-0183-8
PubMed:
19506928

11. The occurrence of antihistamines in sewage waters and in recipient rivers

Author:
Kosonen, Jussi; Kronberg, Leif
Source:
Environmental science and pollution research international 2009 v.16 no.5 pp. 555-564
ISSN:
0944-1344
Subject:
air; antihistamines; aquatic environment; biological treatment; environmental fate; environmental hazards; environmental impact; hay fever; humans; liquid chromatography; long term effects; metabolites; pollen; risk; river water; rivers; sewage treatment; solid phase extraction; spectrometers; wastewater; wastewater treatment
Abstract:
... Background, aim and scope Each year, large quantities of pharmaceuticals are consumed worldwide for the treatment and prevention of human and animal diseases. Although the drugs and the metabolites observed in the wastewaters and in the environment are present at concentrations several orders of magnitude lower than the concentrations required to exert their effects in humans or animals, their lon ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11356-009-0144-2
PubMed:
19337767

12. Toxic masking and synergistic modulation of the estrogenic activity of chemical mixtures in a yeast estrogen screen (YES)

Author:
Frische, Tobias; Faust, Michael; Meyer, Wiebke; Backhaus, Thomas
Source:
Environmental science and pollution research international 2009 v.16 no.5 pp. 593-603
ISSN:
0944-1344
Subject:
antibiotics; cycloheximide; dimethyl sulfoxide; estriol; estrogenic properties; estrone; mercury; screening; solvents; toxic substances; toxicity; yeasts
Abstract:
... Background, aim and scope Estrogenic and non-estrogenic chemicals typically co-occur in the environment. Interference by non-estrogenic chemicals may confound the assessment of the actual estrogenic activity of complex environmental samples. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether, in which way and how seriously the estrogenic activity of single estrogens and the observed and predi ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11356-009-0184-7
PubMed:
19499261