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- Author:
- Preston, Todd M.; Chesley-Preston, Tara L.; Thamke, Joanna N.
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 1152-1162
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- United States Geological Survey; basins; geographic information systems; groundwater; oil fields; oils; public lands; sediments; streams; sulfates; surface water; surveys; wetlands; Montana; Prairie Pothole region
- Abstract:
- ... Water (brine) co-produced with oil in the Williston Basin is some of the most saline in the nation. The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR), characterized by glacial sediments and numerous wetlands, covers the northern and eastern portion of the Williston Basin. Sheridan County, Montana, lies within the PPR and has a documented history of brine contamination. Surface water and shallow groundwater in the ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.09.027
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.09.027
- Author:
- Kuzu, S. Levent; Saral, Arslan; Summak, Gülsüm; Çoltu, Hatice; Demir, Selami
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 13-19
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- absorption; aerosols; ambient temperature; autumn; coasts; meteorological data; models; polychlorinated biphenyls; summer; volatilization; waste incineration; wind direction; Marmara Sea
- Abstract:
- ... In this study, summer and autumn ambient PCB concentrations were investigated in metropolitan city of Istanbul. 84 congeners were targeted from di-CBs to nona-CBs on both particle and gaseous phases. Gaseous ambient concentrations were determined to be 372±134pg·m−3, while on the particle phase this value was 49±17pg·m−3, corresponding to an average of 420pg·m−3. About one-tenth of all PCBs lay in ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.031
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.031
- Author:
- Göransson, Gunnel; Norrman, Jenny; Larson, Magnus; Alén, Claes; Rosén, Lars
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 481-495
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- case studies; data collection; environmental assessment; environmental quality; landslides; models; pollutants; polluted soils; risk; risk assessment; rivers; soil pollution; surface water; uncertainty; urban areas; Sweden
- Abstract:
- ... Urban areas adjacent to surface water are exposed to soil movements such as erosion and slope failures (landslides). A landslide is a potential mechanism for mobilisation and spreading of pollutants. This mechanism is in general not included in environmental risk assessments for contaminated sites, and the consequences associated with contamination in the soil are typically not considered in lands ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.013
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.013
- Author:
- Klanicova, B.; Slany, M.; Slana, I.
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 851-854
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- Mycobacterium avium; aquatic environment; aquatic plants; fish; fish consumption; fish ponds; humans; immunocompromised population; paratuberculosis; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; risk; sediments; Czech Republic
- Abstract:
- ... Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are ubiquitous organisms that have been isolated from a variety of environmental sources. Several NTM species are responsible for diseases in humans and/or animals known as mycobacterioses. The aim of this study was to determine the levels of NTM in the sediments and plants of five fish ponds in the Czech Republic using culture and quantitative real time PCR (qPCR ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.132
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.132
- Author:
- Tarazona, Jose V.; Sobanska, Marta A.; Cesnaitis, Romanas; Sobanski, Tomasz; Bonnomet, Vincent; Versonnen, Bram; De Coen, Wim
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 137-145
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- aquatic invertebrates; databases; ecotoxicology; fish; freshwater; guidelines; species diversity; toxicity; world wide web
- Abstract:
- ... This paper summarises the aquatic ecotoxicity data submitted in the REACH11Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals. registration dossiers and disseminated by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA22European Chemicals Agency.). The analysis describes both the guidelines and the species mostly used by registrants. Non-OECD guidelines have been extensively used, in particula ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.073
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.073
- Author:
- Jonsson, M.; Fick, J.; Klaminder, J.; Brodin, T.
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 108-111
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- Zygoptera; antihistamines; aquatic environment; aquatic insects; behavior change; bioaccumulation factor; larvae; neurotransmitters; sublethal effects; wastewater
- Abstract:
- ... Because aquatic insects use histamines as neurotransmitters, adverse impacts on aquatic insects living in aquatic environments that receive antihistamines with wastewater effluent are plausible. In this study, we exposed damselfly larvae to low concentrations of two commonly used antihistamines (Hydroxyzine and Fexofenadine, 360±42 and 2200±43 ng l−1, respectively), and recorded damselfly larvae b ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.104
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.104
- Author:
- Vázquez-Rowe, Ian; Marvuglia, Antonino; Rege, Sameer; Benetto, Enrico
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 78-89
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- European Union; agricultural industry; agricultural land; arable soils; biogas; climate change; consequential life cycle assessment; crop production; energy; energy crops; energy policy; environmental impact; farmers; income; land use change; models; natural gas; Luxembourg
- Abstract:
- ... Luxembourg aims at complying with the EU objective of attaining a 14% use of bioenergy in the national grid by 2020. The increase of biomethane production from energy crops could be a valuable option in achieving this objective. However, the overall environmental benefit of such option is yet to be proven. Consequential Life Cycle Assessment (CLCA) has shown to be a useful tool to evaluate the env ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.097
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.097
- Author:
- Sevilla-Morán, Beatriz; López-Goti, Carmen; Alonso-Prados, José Luis; Sandín-España, Pilar
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 842-850
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- byproducts; half life; high performance liquid chromatography; ionization; ions; isomerization; mass spectrometry; nitric oxide; oxidation; photolysis; sethoxydim; solar radiation; sulfur
- Abstract:
- ... The photochemical fate of sethoxydim herbicide in water was studied under simulated sunlight radiation (Suntest apparatus). This compound exhibited a rapid degradation rate in water with a half-life of approximately 1h, which is in accordance with the high calculated value of the quantum yield (Φ=0.26). Consequently, the photolysis of sethoxydim should be considered as an efficient route of sethox ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.065
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.065
- Author:
- Chen, Xinxin; Song, Beizhou; Yao, Yuncong; Wu, Hongying; Hu, Jinghui; Zhao, Lingling
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 939-946
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- arthropod communities; biological activity in soil; community structure; denitrifying bacteria; ecosystems; enzyme activity; essential oil crops; field experimentation; fungi; herbivores; intercropping; microbial biomass; nitrifying bacteria; nitrogen; nitrogen content; nitrogen cycle; nutrient content; orchards; parasitoids; predators; proteinases; soil; soil enzymes; soil organic nitrogen; soil quality; urease
- Abstract:
- ... Aromatic plants can substantially improve the diversity and structure of arthropod communities, as well as reduce the number of herbivore pests and regulate the abundance of predators and parasitoids. However, it is not clear whether aromatic plants are also effective in improving soil quality by enhancing nutrient cycling. Here, field experiments are described involving intercropping with aromati ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.117
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.117
- Author:
- Gawel, James E.; Asplund, Jessica A.; Burdick, Sarah; Miller, Michelle; Peterson, Shawna M.; Tollefson, Amanda; Ziegler, Kara
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 530-537
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- arsenic; environmental health; heavy metals; lakes; lead; long term effects; prediction; sediments; watersheds; Puget Sound; Washington (state)
- Abstract:
- ... The American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) smelter in Ruston, Washington, contaminated the south-central Puget Sound region with heavy metals, including arsenic and lead. Arsenic and lead distribution in surface sediments of 26 lakes is significantly correlated with atmospheric model predictions of contaminant deposition spatially, with concentrations reaching 208mg/kg As and 1375mg/kg Pb ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.004
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.004
- Author:
- Sturchio, Elena; Colombo, Teresa; Boccia, Priscilla; Carucci, Nicoletta; Meconi, Claudia; Minoia, Claudio; Macino, Giuseppe
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 672-680
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- adverse effects; apoptosis; arsenic; bioinformatics; biomarkers; cell cycle; disease diagnosis; drinking water; epidemiology; gene expression; humans; messenger RNA; microRNA; microarray technology; phenotype; public health; regulator genes; reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; sodium arsenite
- Abstract:
- ... Exposure to inorganic Arsenic (iAs) through drinking water is a major public health problem affecting most countries. iAs has been classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as Group 1: “Carcinogenic to humans”. Although numerous studies have shown the related adverse effects of iAs, sensitive appropriate biomarkers for studies of environmental epidemiology are still required.Th ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.092
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.092
- Author:
- Östman, Marcus; Fick, Jerker; Näsström, Elin; Lindberg, Richard H.
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 862-871
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- chromatography; cities; geographical variation; illicit drugs; metabolites; multivariate analysis; municipal wastewater; sewage treatment; tandem mass spectrometry; water analysis; Sweden
- Abstract:
- ... Analytical measurements of sewage water have been used many times to estimate the consumption of specific drugs in an area. This study measured a large number of illicit drugs and metabolites (>30) at a large number of sewage treatment plants (STPs) distributed across Sweden. Twenty-four illicit and prescription drugs, classified as narcotic substances in Sweden, and seven selected metabolites wer ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.081
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.081
- Author:
- Formigaro, Costanza; Henríquez-Hernandez, Luis A.; Zaccaroni, Annalisa; Garcia-Hartmann, Manuel; Camacho, María; Boada, Luis D.; Zumbado, Manuel; Luzardo, Octavio P.
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 1044-1051
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- Orcinus orca; adults; blood; captive animals; dietary exposure; dioxins; endangered species; fish; food intake; nutrition assessment; organochlorine pesticides; pollutants; polychlorinated biphenyls; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; tissues; toxicity; whales
- Abstract:
- ... We determined the levels of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), 19 organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and 18 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the plasma of captive adult killer whales and in their food. The goal of this research was the assessment of the dietary exposure of killer whales to these pollutants to gain insight on what is the actual magnitude of the exposure in this species, w ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.127
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.127
- Author:
- Nath, Bibhash; Birch, Gavin; Chaudhuri, Punarbasu
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 1010-1022
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- Avicennia marina; anthropogenic activities; arsenic; cadmium; chromium; cobalt; copper; estuaries; guidelines; habitats; heavy metals; land use change; lead; littoral zone; nickel; pneumatophores; pollution; reforestation; sediments; tissues; urbanization; zinc; Australia
- Abstract:
- ... Currently, coastal intertidal environments are under stress from increased contaminant loads due to urbanization and other anthropogenic disturbances. Mangrove habitats are abundant in tropical and sub-topical intertidal zones and frequently act as a metal bio-filter in estuarine systems. Mangrove reforestation is often considered as one of the management options to protect estuarine–marine habita ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.096
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.096
- Author:
- Luzardo, Octavio P.; Ruiz-Suárez, Norberto; Henríquez-Hernández, Luis Alberto; Valerón, Pilar F.; Camacho, María; Zumbado, Manuel; Boada, Luis D.
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 146-153
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- Accipiter; DDT (pesticide); Falco pelegrinoides; Falco tinnunculus; birds of prey; dieldrin; environmental monitoring; exposure assessment; humans; liver; metabolites; models; mutagenicity; pollutants; polychlorinated biphenyls; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; wildlife; Canary Islands; Spain
- Abstract:
- ... In the present study, we investigated the concentrations and distributions of 57 anthropogenic pollutants, including 23 organochlorine pesticides (OCs), 18 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in liver samples from 102 birds of prey of six species that were found dead or that had died during their stay in the Wildlife Recovery Centers of the Canary Island ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.021
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.021
- Author:
- Wang, Shuo; Xu, Ling; Yang, Fenglin; Wang, He
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 1070-1081
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- carrying capacity; chemical oxygen demand; dynamic models; environmental policy; game theory; land use change; prediction
- Abstract:
- ... Considering the limitation of the traditional method to assess the ecological carrying capacity and the complexity of the water ecological system, we used system dynamics, ANN, and CA–Markov to model a water ecological system. The social component was modeled according to Granger causality test by system dynamics. The natural component consists of the water resource and water environmental capacit ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.115
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.115
- Author:
- Ni, Wenqing; Huang, Yue; Wang, Xiaoling; Zhang, Jingwen; Wu, Kusheng
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 354-362
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- DNA; DNA damage; atomic absorption spectrometry; biomarkers; blood; cadmium; chromium; electronic wastes; heavy metals; lead; neonates; nickel; parents; pregnant women; questionnaires; recycling; risk factors; toxicity; umbilical cord
- Abstract:
- ... This study aimed to evaluate the effects of toxic heavy metal co-exposure on DNA oxidative damage in neonates from a primitive e-waste recycling region, Guiyu town, China.Our participants included 201 pregnant women: 126 from Guiyu town and 75 from Jinping district of Shantou city, where no e-waste recycling and dismantling activities existed. Structured interview questionnaires were administered ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.032
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.032
- Author:
- Sun, Huifang; Shi, Baoyou; Bai, Yaohui; Wang, Dongsheng
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 99-107
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- Acidovorax; Burkholderia; Mycobacterium neoaurum; alkalinity; bacteria; bacterial communities; biofilm; chemical oxygen demand; correlation; corrosion; drinking water; genes; groundwater; pathogens; ribosomal RNA; sequence analysis; surface water; water distribution; water supply
- Abstract:
- ... In order to understand the bacterial community characteristics of biofilms developed under different finished water supply histories in drinking water distribution systems (DWDS), biofilm samples on different type of iron corrosion scales in a real DWDS were collected and systematically investigated using 454 pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA gene. The richness and diversity estimators showed that biofil ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.017
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.017
- Author:
- Iriarte, Alfredo; Almeida, Maria Gabriela; Villalobos, Pablo
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 1082-1088
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- Musa; bananas; carbon footprint; case studies; computer software; crop production; data collection; environmental impact; farms; greenhouse experimentation; greenhouse gas emissions; world markets; Ecuador
- Abstract:
- ... Nowadays, the new international market demands challenge the food producing countries to include the measurement of the environmental impact generated along the production process for their products. In order to comply with the environmentally responsible market requests the measurement of the greenhouse gas emissions of Ecuadorian agricultural goods has been promoted employing the carbon footprin ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.072
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.072
- Author:
- Yang, Li; Ye, Miao; he, Bao-Jie
- Source:
- The Science of the total environment 2014 v.472 pp. 1137-1144
- ISSN:
- 0048-9697
- Subject:
- air; air conditioning; air quality; computer software; heat; humans; mathematical models; people; summer; temperature; toxic substances; toxicity; wind speed
- Abstract:
- ... Nowadays people are excessively depending on air conditioning to create a comfortable indoor environment, but it could cause some health problems in a long run. In this paper, wind velocity field, temperature field and air age field in a bedroom with wall-hanging air conditioning running in summer are analyzed by CFD numerical simulation technology. The results show that wall-hanging air condition ...
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.118
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.118