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agricultural pollution; bioavailability; biogeochemical cycles; esters; lakes; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; organic matter; orthophosphates; pH; principal component analysis; risk; rivers; sediments; China
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... Phosphorus (P) in sediments plays an important role in shallow lake ecosystems and has a major effect on the lake environment. The mobility and bioavailability of P primarily depend on the contents of different P forms, which in turn depend on the sedimentary environment. Here, sediment samples from Baiyangdian (BYD) lake were collected and measured by the Standards, Measurements, and Testing proc ...
basins; carbonates; catenas; climate; dust; human health; humans; lakes; oxygen; particle size distribution; riparian areas; rivers; satellites; sediments; Central Asia; China
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... Dust raised from Arid Central Asia (ACA) affects the global climate, global biogeochemical cycles, and human health. Studies on the ACA dust activities thus are crucial for understanding dust forcing mechanisms and the mitigation of hazardous storms. Located at the downwind margin of the ACA, the Lake Qinghai basin is an ideal trap for dust activities documentation. However, isolating eolian dust ...
advection; basins; evolution; hysteresis; marshes; riparian areas; river deltas; river flow; river water; rivers; sediment transport; sediments; spring; time series analysis; turbidity; water waves; Mississippi River
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... Barataria (LA, USA) is an interdistributary deltaic basin that has experienced extensive marsh loss. The fate of these marshes is strongly controlled by the concentration of total suspended sediments (TSS) in the adjacent open bay water. This parameter, however, is poorly constrained, thus limiting the ability to predict the future marsh evolution. Here we investigate the open bay water sediment d ...
... Modeling network‐scale sediment (dis)connectivity and its response to anthropic pressures provides a baseline understanding of river processes and sediment dynamics that can be used to forecast future hydro‐morphological changes in river basins. However, this requires a solid understanding of how a system is currently operating, and how it operated in the past. We present the basin‐scale, dynamic ...
... Dam reservoirs are complex depositional systems, which provide barriers to natural sediment transport along river courses. In addition, reservoir sedimentation causes serious problems in their operational management. Given the wide variability of reservoir bottom shapes, total volumes of stored water, river discharges, sediment loads and sediment textures, universal depositional models are difficu ...
Japan; accidents; cesium radioisotopes; comparative study; environment; inventories; nuclear power; power plants; rain; riparian areas; river water; rivers; seawater; sediments; total suspended solids; watersheds
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... This study presents the temporal variations in riverine ¹³⁷Cs concentrations and fluxes to the ocean during high-flow events in three coastal river catchments contaminated by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. River water samples were collected at points downstream in the Niida, Ukedo, and Takase Rivers during three high-flow events that occurred in 2019–2020. Variations in both t ...
... An investigation on 152 gullies along the Daheba River in the Tongde sedimentary basin was performed. Debris flows develop in gullies with an excess topography ZE, which represents the sediment availability, above a critical threshold value. Debris flows in the Daheba watershed are supply-unlimited, i.e sediment is abundantly available from the steep erodible gully banks. Debris flows consist of a ...
Actinobacteria; Bacteroidetes; Deinococcus-Thermus; Firmicutes; Proteobacteria; altitude; antibiotic resistance; bacterial culture; ecosystems; genes; heavy metals; metal tolerance; monsoon season; rivers; sediments; Himalayan region; India
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... Culturable bacterial diversity and co-occurrence of heavy metal and antibiotic resistance were investigated from the water and sediments along the course of the Teesta River, in the Eastern Himalayas. Water and sediment samples collected from six sampling points during the monsoon and winter seasons were subjected to analysis of physico-chemical parameters, heavy metal contamination and antibiotic ...
... Excess phosphorus (P) in freshwater lakes is a global challenge due to its potential cause of harmful algal blooms threating drinking water safety. However, quantifying the P sources for a specific site in a large lake is extremely challenging due to the complex interaction between internal and external P loading to surface water. To address this challenge, this study developed a modelling framewo ...
Ana Maria Costa; Maria da Conceição Freitas; Marco A. Jiménez-González; Nicasio T. Jiménez-Morillo; Cristina Barroca Dias; Cristina Val-Péon; Klaus Reicherter; Francisco Fatela; Ana Cristina Araújo; Sónia Gabriel; Manel Leira; Mariana Diniz; Pablo Arias
... In this paper we present the results of a multidisciplinary study performed in the Carrasqueira valley, a tributary of the River Sado (SW Portugal), aimed at characterising the Holocene environmental conditions during the late Mesolithic occupation of this valley. Our findings are based on a 13.5 m long sediment core (Arez3) collected on the alluvial plain close to a late Mesolithic shell midden, ...
... Efficient and sustainable removal of both organic and inorganic pollutants from contaminated water is an important but difficult task. Here, a novel chemical-biological coupling concept, namely simultaneous coupling of memory photocatalysts and microbial communities (SCMPMC), is proposed for the first time that alternates the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants under successive light/dark ...
... Accessible sediment provenance information is highly desirable for guiding targeted interventions for reducing excess diffuse agricultural sediment losses to water. Conventional sediment source fingerprinting methods can provide this information, but at high cost, thereby limiting their widespread application for catchment management. The use of sediment colour measured using an office document sc ...
... This paper presents a novel numerical environmental multimedia modeling system (RNEMM) for assessing the environmental fate of emerging organic contaminants and their relative health risk at a regional scale. The RNEMM is developed based on an integrated numerical algorithm that comprises four sub-models: a river network simulation module, a gaseous phase simulation module, a mass balance based si ...
autocorrelation; base flow; basins; glaciers; pollution; rain; research; rivers; runoff; sediments; snowmelt; suspended sediment; time series analysis; watersheds; Switzerland
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... This study addresses the link between suspended sediment concentration, precipitation, streamflow, and direct runoff components. This is important since suspended sediment concentration in the streamflow has invaluable importance in the management of the river basin. For this, the daily streamflow time series in five consecutive stations at Upper Rhone River Basin, a relatively large basin in the ...
... Accidental leakage of radionuclides from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP1) took place in the aftermath of the catastrophic tsunamis associated with the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011. Significant amount of radionuclides released into the atmosphere were reportedly transported and deposited on land located near FNPP1. The Niida River, Fukushima, Japan, has been ...
antibiotic resistance; bioinformatics; community structure; computer simulation; environmental DNA; health effects assessments; human health; land use; metagenomics; microbial communities; research; rivers; sediments; stream channels; water; New Jersey
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... Human health risk assessment for environmental antibiotic resistant microbes requires not only quantifying the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in environmental matrices, but also understanding their hosts and genetic context. Further, differentiating ARGs in intracellular and extracellular DNA (iDNA and eDNA) fractions may help refine our understanding of ARG transferability. The o ...
Margarita Gutierrez-Ruiz; Alejandra Muro-Puente; Agueda E. Ceniceros-Gómez; Daniel Amaro-Ramírez; Leticia Pérez-Manzanera; L Gerardo Martínez-Jardines; Francisco Romero
... The Sonora River and its tributary streams (Tinajas, Bacanuchi) were impacted in 2014 by an acid solution spill (approximately 40,000 m³). This study aims to presents a clear and supported overview to determining the spill's consequences on the environment and the people inhabiting the area. The elements quantified were those found in the spilled solution: Al, As, Cu, Fe, Mn, Pb, and Zn. Potential ...
... A study on the advantages of liming combined to sedimentation-dredging to reduce heavy metals and metalloid in coal mining water was performed in tailing wastewater sedimentation ponds, mixed water sedimentation ponds, and Sangatta River where water from the coal mining area flows in. The concentrations of heavy metals and metalloid showed that the results were not significantly different (P > 0.0 ...
... Riparian zone is a hub for microplastics (MPs), and MPs accumulation also changes the function of the riparian zone (e.g., carbon pool) to pose a great threat to river ecosystems. Although it is known that MPs can be aged for changing their characteristic after accumulating in riparian sediment, the effect of MP aging behavior on sediment dissolved organic matter (DOM) bioavailability and carbon e ...
databases; geomorphology; models; prediction; principal component analysis; regression analysis; rivers; sediment contamination; sediments; standard deviation
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... Sediment load in fluvial systems is one of the critical factors shaping the river geomorphological and hydraulic characteristics. A detailed understanding of the total sediment load (TSL) is required for the protection of physical, environmental, and ecological functions of rivers. This study develops a robust methodological approach based on multiple linear regression (MLR) and support vector reg ...
... There are still numerous uncertainties over the influence of anthropogenic interventions on salt marsh dynamics. This study uses the Ribble Estuary as a test case and an integrated approach of numerical modeling and paleoenvironmental analysis to investigate the contribution of embankment construction to long‐term marsh accretion. Accretion rates derived using optically stimulated luminescence dat ...
biogeochemistry; coasts; denitrification; dissolved inorganic nitrogen; eutrophication; flocculation; nitrates; river deltas; river water; rivers; salinity; sediments; summer; Italy
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... In transitional environments, the role of sediments biogeochemistry and denitrification is crucial for establishing their buffer potential against nitrate (NO₃⁻) pollution. The Po River (Northern Italy) is a worldwide hotspot of eutrophication. However, benthic N dynamics and the relevance of denitrification in its delta have not yet been described. The aim of the present study was to quantify the ...
... Microplastics (MPs) pollution in the aquatic environment raises considerable concerns. Freshwater system is generally considered as an important source for MPs transformation into the marine environment, however, only limited data on the MPs pollution in global freshwater systems is available at this time. In this study, we explored the abundance, characteristics and distribution of microplastics ...
Holocene epoch; Neoproterozoic era; coasts; isotopes; littoral zone; rivers; sediments; zircon; Andes region; Argentina; Brazil
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... On the passive margin of southern Brazil, where the availability of sediments and coastal system conditions were adequate for forming a Ti–Zr-bearing placer in the Holocene, could there be a source of detrital contribution other than the Precambrian South American cratons? To answer that, detrital zircon U–Pb–Hf analyses were performed using the LA-ICP-MS method. The U–Pb age pattern distribution ...
... Rivers transport carbon from continents to oceans. Surprisingly, this carbon has often been found to be centuries old, not originating from contemporary plant biomass. This can be explained by anthropogenic disturbance of soils or discharge of radiocarbon–depleted wastewater. However, land enclosure and channel bypassing transformed many rivers from anabranching networks to single–channel systems ...
Acetobacteraceae; Beijerinckiaceae; Firmicutes; Mycobacteriaceae; antibiotic resistance; bacterial communities; community structure; drugs; environment; functional diversity; livestock; oxygen; riparian areas; river water; rivers; sediments; temperature; urban areas; watersheds; China
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... Anthropogenic activities have inevitably impacted riverine ecosystems, yet their overall contribution to the assemblage of bacterial communities at a large river basin scale remains unclear. In this study, 16S amplicon sequencing was implemented to investigate the bacterial ecosystems in paired water and sediment of North River and West River basins in South China., which contains various anthropo ...
... Assessments of antimony (Sb) and arsenic (As) contamination in sediments are reported on a wide range of different particle size fractions, including <63 μm, < 180 μm and <2 mm. Guidelines vary between jurisdictions which limits comparative assessment between contamination events and complicates ecotoxicity assessment, and almost no information exists on Sb size distribution in contaminated sedime ...
... A riparian zone within the Songhua River Basin in Northeast China, characterized by a continental monsoon semi-humid climate. River infiltration is an important part of groundwater recharge at riverbank filtration (RBF) sites and largely depends on the riverbed hydraulic conductivity (RHC). The influence of river scouring and deposition on RHC is not completely clear, resulting in calculation inac ...
asbestos; cesium radioisotopes; chromium; environment; evolution; heavy metals; lakes; magnesium; magnetic susceptibility; nickel; radiometry; rivers; sediments; watersheds; Quebec
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... More than a century (1877–2011 CE) of asbestos mining activities in the Thetford Mines region have resulted in the accumulation of gigantic mineral waste piles on the banks of the Bécancour River (southern Quebec, Canada). This river widens downstream from the mining sites to form a chain of lakes, successively: Stater Pond, Trout Lake, Lake William and Lake Joseph. A previous paleolimnological in ...
glyphosate; ion exchange chromatography; particulates; pollution; research; rivers; sediments; tandem mass spectrometry
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... Lagoon water, suspended particulate matter, and sediment samples from seven sites at Lagoon of Venice were collected from 2019 to 2021 in order to study the presence of the herbicide glyphosate (N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine), among the most widely used agricultural chemicals worldwide, but its occurrence in lagoon water environment has not been deeply investigated. The sites were selected considerin ...
basins; climate change; ecological restoration; environment; eutrophication; humans; land use; models; parameter uncertainty; pollutants; regression analysis; rivers; runoff; sediment deposition; sediments; soil; total nitrogen; total phosphorus; uncertainty analysis; water pollution; water quality; watershed management; watersheds; China
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... Sediment deposition and intensified eutrophication of the Miyun Reservoir are directly affecting the water quality in Beijing, China, owing to water pollution issues in the Chaohe River Basin, which contains the main inflow river of the reservoir. This study analysed the runoff, sediment, total nitrogen and total phosphorus load simulation results from three observation stations using the Hydrolog ...
... Wastewater treatment plant effluents and releases from rainwater overflow basins can contribute to the input of genotoxic micropollutants in aquatic ecosystems. Predominantly lipophilic genotoxic compounds tend to sorb to particulate matter, making sediment a source and a sink of pollution. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate the genotoxic potential of freshwater sediments (i) during ...
... Bacterial kidney disease (BKD) can be a devastating bacterial infection in salmonids, and it is present in aquaculture throughout the world. BKD is caused by the Gram‐positive facultative intracellular bacterium Renibacterium salmoninarum (R. salmoninarum) that is spread both horizontally and vertically. Disease signs include external ulcerations and blisters and internal signs such as organ swell ...
... PURPOSE: Understanding fluxes of soil organic carbon (OC) from the terrestrial to aquatic environments is crucial to evaluate their importance within the global carbon cycle. Sediment fingerprinting (SF) is increasingly used to identify land use-specific sources of OC, and, while this approach estimates the relative contribution of different sources to OC load in waterways, the high degree of spat ...
base flow; ecosystems; land cover; models; phosphorus; rivers; sediments; sewage treatment; sewer systems; surface water; total phosphorus; water quality; watersheds; Brazil
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... Elevated phosphorus loads play an important role in the deterioration of water quality and can subsequently pose a threat to the aquatic organisms in a river or a standing water body. The accurate assessment of total phosphorus (TP) fluxes from a catchment is of high importance to the well-being of the entire river ecosystem. In this study, we assessed the yearly input of TP from the urban areas o ...
air quality; anthropogenic horizons; asbestos; environmental health; humans; lakes; rivers; sediments; transmission electron microscopy; watersheds; Quebec
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... The Bécancour River in southern Quebec (Canada) has evolved under the influence of the long asbestos mining history of the Thetford Mines region (1877–2011 Common Era; CE). This river originates at the outflow of Lake Bécancour, flows through the old mining sites, and then widens to successively form Stater Pond, Trout Lake, Lake William, and Lake Joseph (25 km from the closest mine). Our objectiv ...
... In this report, four cVMSs including hexamethylcyclotrisiloxane (D3), octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4), decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5), and dodecamethylcyclohexasiloxane (D6) were determined in 85 sediment samples collected from three rivers in northern Vietnam during the period from May to November 2020. Total mean concentrations of cVMSs ranged from 75.4 to 15,000 ng/g-dw. The highest levels ...
United States Environmental Protection Agency; absorption; aquatic ecosystems; biocenosis; detection limit; environmental health; environmental protection; guidelines; heavy metals; humans; pollution load; principal component analysis; risk; rivers; sediment contamination; sediments; India
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... The Godavari is the largest river of peninsular India and receives a significant quantity of pollutants from diverse sources, including many industries, urban developments and agricultural fields. Such pollution is more prominent in the upper stretch of the river. This work aimed to assess the water and sediment contaminations of River Godavari for the presence of trace metals Cd, Cr, Cu, Mn, Pb a ...
Araneae; Coleoptera; Hemiptera; case studies; environmental quality; heavy metals; human health; indicator species; landfill leachates; macroinvertebrates; research; rivers; sediments; surface water; sustainable development; wastewater; China
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... Long-term retention and accumulation of heavy metals in surface water and sediment pose a great threat to the sustainable development of aquatic ecosystems and human health. In this research, macrozoobenthos, and surface water and sediment heavy metal (Mn, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn, Cd, and As) samples were collected from 23 sites in the upper and middle reaches of the Heihe River in the summers of 2019– ...
... Biota of coastal estuarine habitats of tropics and subtropics are extremely vulnerable. In the study, we have investigated the role of rhizosphere process in bio-accumulation of heavy metals in fine nutritive roots of riparian mangroves at eleven sampling locations of river Hooghly. The rhizospheric sediment of river Hooghly was accumulating HMs due to the presence of organic content and anthropog ...
clay; cohesion; comparative study; data collection; decision support systems; hydraulic structures; hydrology; models; nose; prediction; rivers; sediments
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... Spur dike has been widely used as one of the river training structures to increase the stability of riverbanks and embankments. Scour around spur dikes affects their hydraulic performance and stability. Hence, the precise calculation of scour depth variation with time at spur dikes is essential to the design of safe and economical spur dikes. This study focuses on assessing the scour depth variati ...
Soil and Water Assessment Tool model; algorithms; basins; lithology; model validation; risk; rivers; runoff; sediment yield; sediments; semiarid zones; soil erosion; uncertainty; watersheds; Morocco
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... Increased sedimentation is the main problem that affects dam efficiency by reducing storage capacity. Planning for dam construction and maintenance requires design strategies that heavily depend on integrated basin models, properly identifying principal sediment origins within the watershed and qualifying the sediment production rate. In this research work, the physically-based watershed SWAT mode ...
... The contamination of six heavy metals (Cr, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb) in 42 river sediment samples was investigated in the Oder and Vistula, the two biggest rivers in Poland. This is the first research which considers almost the whole area of Poland (96.3%) to obtain the overall characteristics of heavy metals (HMs), their spatial distribution, pollution levels and their possible sources. The degree o ...
Monte Carlo method; cadmium; heavy metals; manganese; nickel; pollution; risk; rivers; sediments; variance; water; zinc; Bangladesh
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... River sediment can be used to measure the pollution level in natural water, as it serves as one of the vital environmental indicators. This study aims to assess heavy metal pollution namely Copper (Cu), Iron (Fe), Manganese (Mn), Zinc (Zn), Nickel (Ni), Lead (Pb), and Cadmium (Cd) in Surma River. Further, it compares potential ecological risk index values using Hakanson Risk Index (RI) and Monte C ...
... Microplastic (MP), as a pollutant, is currently posing a biological hazard to the aquatic environment. The study aims to isolate, quantify, and characterize the MP pollutants in sediment samples from 14 study sites at Kaveri River, Killa Chinthamani, Tiruchirappalli, South India. With Sediment-MP Isolation (SMI) unit, density separation was done with a hydrogen peroxide solution. Four forms of MPs ...
... Subtropical to tropical sandy beaches are subject to a wide variety of processes that influence shoreline position, though they receive little research attention compared to temperate coastlines. This presents challenges to understanding the drivers of long-term coastal change, particularly in places like the sub/tropical margins of Australia, where there are significant differences in local to re ...
Mauricio Willians de Lima; Wendel Valter da Silveira Pereira; Edna Santos de Souza; Renato Alves Teixeira; Dulcidéia da Conceição Palheta; Kelson do Carmo Freitas Faial; Hain Figueiredo Costa; Antonio Rodrigues Fernandes
Colossoma macropomum; Curimata; Geophagus; Leporinus; Serrasalmus; bioaccumulation; environmental assessment; fish; human health; laws and regulations; research; risk; rivers; sediments; streams; surface water; toxicity; Brazil
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... Anthropogenic activities may have increased the concentrations of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in fish from the southeastern Carajás Mineral Province in Brazil, which has not yet been studied. The objectives were to determine the quality parameters of surface water and bottom sediments, and to assess the bioaccumulation and risks of Al, Fe, Ba, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, Ti, V and Zn in ...
... Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitous in aquatic environments and a recent shift toward emerging PFAS is calling for new data on their occurrence and fate. In particular, understanding the determinants of their bioaccumulation is fundamental for risk assessment purposes. However, very few studies have addressed the combined influence of potential ecological drivers of PFAS bioa ...
... Information on trophodynamics of antibiotics and subsequent relationships to antibiotic metabolism in river ecosystem is still unavailable, limiting the evaluation of their bioaccumulation and trophodynamics in aquatic food webs. In the present study, concentrations and relative abundance of 11 antibiotics were investigated in surface water, sediment and 22 aquatic taxa (e.g., fish, invertebrates ...
... The development of novel biodegradable substitutes for plastics is required, as current plastic waste is not easily degraded in many environments, including seas, rivers, and soil. We developed a woody film with nearly the same composition as wood as a biodegradable substitute for plastics. A biodegradability test of the film was performed over 9 weeks in the water and surface sediments of rivers ...
ammonium; aquatic ecosystems; arable soils; biofilm; chlorophyll; land cover; nonpoint source pollution; reactive phosphorus; river water; rivers; sediments; sewage; sewage effluent; sewage treatment; summer; wastewater treatment; water quality; watersheds; Scotland
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... Discharge of treated sewage effluent to rivers can degrade aquatic ecosystem quality, interacting with multiple stressors in the wider catchment. In predominantly rural catchments, the river reach influence of point source effluents is unknown relative to complex background pressures. We examined water column, sediment and biofilm biogeochemical water quality parameters along river transects (200 ...
bank erosion; environment; floodplains; regrowth; rivers; runoff; sediments; spatial variation; vegetation; wildfires; Rocky Mountain region
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... We examine a 9.4-km-long portion of a montane river corridor in the Southern Rockies, the upper 8 km of which burned in 2020. We focus on sediment storage in logjam backwaters and how spatial heterogeneity in the river corridor attenuates downstream fluxes of material following the wildfire. Wider portions of river corridor exhibit greater spatial heterogeneity, as reflected in multithread channel ...
Krisa Camargo; Mary Ann Vogelbein; Jennifer A. Horney; Timothy M. Dellapenna; Anthony H. Knap; Jose L. Sericano; Terry L. Wade; Thomas J. McDonald; Weihsueh A. Chiu; Michael A. Unger
United States Environmental Protection Agency; analytical chemistry; biosensors; environmental protection; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; prioritization; research; risk; rivers; sediments; total organic carbon
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... Background: Given the time and monetary costs associated with traditional analytical chemistry, there remains a need to rapidly characterize environmental samples for priority analysis, especially within disaster research response (DR2). As PAHs are both ubiquitous and occur as complex mixtures at many National Priority List sites, these compounds are of interest for post-disaster exposures. Objec ...
... Our study evaluated the current occurrence, composition, and spatial distribution of eight congeners of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and seven novel brominated flame retardants (NBFRs) in sediment from Guiyu, a typical e-waste dismantling region in China. PBDEs levels ranged from 0.345 to 401,000 ng/g dw and NBFRs levels ranged from 0.581 to 73,100 ng/g dw. Almost all sediment samples co ...
... A massive increase in dam construction has decreased fluvial sediment discharge at a global scale. In order to explore potential effects of the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) on floodplain lakes in the middle Yangtze reaches (central China), this study investigated phosphorus forms (i.e., Ca-bound phosphorus, Fe/Al-bound phosphorus, and organic phosphorus) and trace elements (i.e., Sc, Ba, Be, Pb, and Zn) ...
... Surface velocity is traditionally measured with in situ techniques such as velocity probes (in shallow rivers) or Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (in deeper water). In the last years, researchers have developed remote sensing techniques, both optical (e.g., image-based velocimetry techniques) and microwave (e.g., Doppler radar). These techniques can be deployed from Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS ...
... Meandering rivers and their morphological changes have been extensively investigated in fluvial geomorphology, but little knowledge is available on the meander geometry response in rivers heavily impacted by dams and their relative importance compared to natural hydrological and climatic variability. Understanding the causes of planimetric changes has several implications for assessing channel dyn ...
Methanobacterium; aquaculture; autumn; brackish marshes; carbon; coasts; community structure; estuaries; greenhouses; methane production; methanogens; pollution; rivers; sediments; species diversity; spring; summer; China
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... Widespread conversion of coastal wetlands into aquaculture ponds in coastal region often results in degradation of the wetland ecosystems, but its effects on sediment's potential to produce greenhouse gases remain unclear. Using field sampling, incubation experiments and molecular analysis, we studied the sediment CH₄ production potential and the relevant microbial communities in a brackish marsh ...
... Two facultatively anaerobic, short rod-shaped, non-motile, Gram-stain-positive, unknown bacterial strains (JY-X040ᵀ and JY-X174) were isolated from fluvial sediments of Tongtian River in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai province, China. Cells formed translucent, gray, round and convex colonies, with a diameter of less than 0.5 mm after 5 days of incubation at 30°C on brain heart infusi ...
... Dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays an important role in the cycling and toxicity of heavy metals in aquatic systems. However, most studies have focused only on DOM in either water or sediments. This study aimed to analyze the source, composition, and structural characteristics of DOM in both surface water and bottom sediments of the Le’an River and its major tributaries. In addition, the potenti ...
estuaries; heavy metals; marine pollution; rivers; sediment-water interface; sediments
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... Nutrient and heavy metal concentrations in porewater/overlying water and their benthic fluxes were investigated to study their accumulation and transport at the sediment−water interface and the influences of sediment in the Pearl River Estuary, China. Results revealed that distribution of nutrients and metals reflected the effects of terrestrial inputs and some physicochemical processes. Benthic f ...
coasts; marine environment; microplastics; morphs; polyethylene; polypropylenes; rain; rivers; sediment contamination; sediments; Bay of Bengal; India
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... In view of increasing Microplastics (MPs) contamination in the marine environment and dearth of baseline data, a study was conducted on the abundance, characterization, and seasonal distribution of MPs in the nearshore sediments of the south-east coast of India. Sediment samples (n = 130) were collected at a distance of 1 km and 10 km from the shore region at varying depths (8–45 m) along the Chen ...
... The adsorptive removal performance of strontium (Sr) through bio-mineralization metabolism under various parameters was evaluated in this study. The primary mechanism of bio-mineralization used in this study was the urea hydrolysis process through bacterial enzymatic catalysis. Bacillus sp, which was isolated from river sediment, was used as a ureolytic bacteria. Various environmental conditions w ...
... PURPOSE: The Great War Island (GWI) is a landform of exceptional features and a protected area located in the center of Belgrade at the Sava and Danube River’s confluence. The position of GWI causes a large number of possible hydrocarbons inputs that influence the quality of both river waters and sediments. The main objective of this research is to assess the distribution and source of hydrocarbon ...
... Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are persistent toxic substances that have ubiquitous presence in water, air, soil, and sediment environments. The growth of PAH toxicities and related ecotoxicology risk in estuary sediment has a serious concern. Present study examined the PAHs concentration, sources, and ecological risk from selected sites in Subarnarekha River estuary (SRE) sediment deposi ...
cattle; land cover; pollution control; public health; rivers; sediment contamination; sediments; stream channels; surface water
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... Surface water monitoring and microbial source tracking (MST) are used to identify host sources of fecal pollution and protect public health. However, knowledge of the locations of spatial sources and their relative impacts on the environment is needed to effectively mitigate health risks. Additionally, sediment samples may offer time-integrated information compared to transient surface water. Thus ...
Moraxellaceae; Planococcaceae; bacterial communities; coasts; community structure; dry season; estuaries; human health; industry; pollution; prediction; research; rivers; salinity; salt stress; saltwater intrusion; seasonal variation; sediments; species diversity; wet season
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... Seawater intrusion has a detrimental effect on agriculture, industry, and human health. One question of particular interest is how the microbial community responds to and reflects seawater intrusion with seasonal variation. The current study explored the seasonal changes in bacterial community composition and interaction in the vicinity of Pearl River Estuary in dry season (January) and wet season ...
... As an important component in East Asia sediment source-to-sink systems, small mountainous rivers in Taiwan deliver disproportionately large amounts of sediments to oceans. Although the modern fluvial sediment transport processes, discharge fluxes and sediment compositions have been well investigated, the drainage evolution of these mountainous rivers remains understudied and sediment fluxes are ex ...
... We studied temporal-spatial variations in the grain size of sediments from the Huanghe (Yellow River) delta-coast. Four sediment push-cores and more than 200 surface sediment samples were collected. Key factors that control the sediment variability were revealed, as well as their environmental significance. Analytical results indicated that sediments of the Huanghe delta-coast have coarsened over ...
... In order to advance methodologies used in the investigation of Hyporheic Zone (HZ) mixing processes, this article combines experimental and modelling tools to follow a tracer injected into the river and infiltrating into the HZ. A highly concentrated sodium chloride solution was injected into the river; (i) the river conductivity, (ii) the riverbed resistivity by Electrical Resistivity Tomography ...
Bacillariophyceae; Mediterranean climate; community structure; fish; hydrochemistry; invasive species; models; oxygen; pH; rivers; sediments; spatial variation; species diversity
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... Mediterranean climate river systems are among the most threatened ecosystems worldwide, due to a long history of anthropogenic impacts and alien invasive species introductions. Many of such rivers naturally exhibit a non-perennial flow regime, with distinct seasonal, inter-annual and spatial heterogeneity. The present study seeks to detect diatom community patterns and to understand the processes ...
... Suspended sediment transport in river system is a complex process influenced by many factors that their interactions lead to nonlinear and high scatter of concentration-discharge relationships. This makes the model prediction subject to high uncertainty and providing one value as the model prediction is somehow useless and cannot provide adequate information about the model accuracy and associated ...
catenas; hydrograph; model validation; rivers; runoff; sediment transport; sediments; watersheds; England
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... Field-to-river flow of runoff and sediment in a lowland arable catchment in the south of England is explored from both field and modelling perspectives. Routes observed to be taken by flow and sediment on five study areas include many interactions between flow and ‘landscape elements’ (LEs), including those (field boundaries, paths, roads) of anthropogenic origin. We were able to satisfactorily re ...
case studies; estuaries; freshwater; hydrodynamics; mathematical models; rivers; runoff; saline water; sea level; sediment deposition; sediments; water management; water salinity
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... The hydrodynamic conditions of estuary channels are crucial to water exchanges, saltwater intrusions, and sediment movements. A comprehensive hydrodynamic study considering above multi-environmental impacts is imperative for the evaluation of local hydrodynamic strengths and the effects of water diversion projects. Aiming at this, this paper has proposed a comprehensive hydrodynamic fitness (CHF) ...
Chironomus dilutus; Dreissena polymorpha; Hyalella azteca; benthic organisms; chemical analysis; habitat destruction; habitats; industrialization; macroinvertebrates; models; remediation; research; rivers; sediment contamination; sediments; total organic carbon; toxicity; water quality; zebras; Lake Erie; New York
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... The lower 10 km of the Buffalo River, a tributary to Lake Erie, was designated as an Area of Concern (AOC) in 1987 through the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement because sediment contamination and habitat alteration from past industrialization caused several Beneficial Use Impairments (BUIs). Extensive remediation efforts conducted between 2011 and 2015 removed approximately 688,100 cubic meters ...
floodplains; geophysics; research; rivers; sediments; streams; temperate zones; Central European region
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... We aim to identify conditions that influence the preservation of a complete record of channel planforms in the topmost layer of floodplains, prior to the maintenance in the rock record. We have tested a hypothesis that a successive decrease of stream power and channel belt width are necessary to preserve the record of channel planforms in the topmost floodplain layer over 10⁻³ to 10⁻⁴‐year time sc ...
administrative management; drainage; environmental law; hills; land cover; land use; laws and regulations; rivers; sediments; stream flow; water; water supply; watersheds; Brazil
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... Public policies affecting land use/land cover also have an impact on water resource availability, and hilltop protected areas are a relevant factor in ensuring continued availability of water resources. The legislation ruling the delimitation of protected areas on hilltops has changed at the Brazilian national level in 2012 and in Rio de Janeiro state in 2014. However, these environmental legislat ...
... Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopic ratios are increasingly used in sediment fingerprinting studies. However, questions remain regarding tracer conservativeness during sediment transport and other error considerations. We investigate conservativeness processes, including carbon oxidation and nitrogen mineralization, using experiments. We also test how other considerations impact the isotopic ratio ...
... Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) are recognized as emerging environmental pollutants because of their high persistence in various environmental matrices and toxic effects on humans and animals. In Vietnam, PFOA and PFOS have been detected in surface water and sediment in recent studies. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the spatial and vertical dis ...
dibutyl phthalate; environmental science; estuaries; fish; health effects assessments; risk characterization; rivers; saltwater intrusion; sediments; surface water
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... The occurrence and distribution of six phthalate acid esters (PAEs) in surface water and sediment of the Pearl River were investigated, including Xijiang River (XR), Beijiang River (BR), Lingdingyang Estuary (LE), and Guangzhou River (GR) in South China. Six target PAEs were identified in surface water and sediment at almost all sites in the Pearl River, with di(2-ethyl-ethyl) phthalate (DEHP) and ...
... The present-day human footprint is traceable in all environments. Growing urban centers, tourism, agricultural and industrial activities in combination with fishery, aquacultures and intense naval traffic, result in a large output of pollutants onto coastal regions. The Algarve shelf (Portugal) is one exemplary highly affected coastal system. With this study the contemporary pollution was followed ...
... Sedimentary organic pollution in the urban reaches of the Thames estuary is changing from fossil fuel hydrocarbons to emerging synthetic chemicals. De-industrialisation of London was assessed in three cores from Chiswick (Ait/Eyot) mud island using pharmaceuticals, faecal sterols, hydrocarbons (TPH, PAH), Black Carbon (BC) and organotins (TBT). These ranked in the order; BC 7590-30219 mg/kg, mean ...
air; atmospheric deposition; bromination; case studies; conservation areas; environment; risk; rivers; sediments; toxicity; water conservation; China
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... Surface sediments are both sinks and sources of chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (Cl/Br-PAHs) in the environment. It is important to study the source of Cl/Br-PAHs in the surface sediment for controlling the ecological risk of Cl/Br-PAHs. Clues from the previous research suggested that atmospheric deposition may be one of the main sources of Cl/Br-PAHs in sediment. Howev ...
... Globally, replanted sugarcane (Rp) on hillslopes has accelerated soil erosion and associated nutrients entering the river, causing serious water pollution. Sugarcane planting patterns (SPPs), including the area ratios of Rp and intercropping (Ic) on the hillslopes, may mitigate these negative impacts by increasing surface coverage. But the effectiveness of SPPs on these impacts has not been quanti ...
... Global warming and intensified climate variability have greatly affected Earth’s surface processes and continental sediment evacuation. River suspended sediment is a sensitive indicator for tracing seasonal surface erosion, but details of the rates of sediment generation and evacuation, and their connections with nowadays warming climate are not entirely clear, particularly in Tibet and other high ...
... Accurate prediction of suspended sediment load (SSL) of a river is very important as it directly affects the performance of the corresponding hydraulic structures. SSL can give valuable information on the catchment erodibility and deposition of the sediment being produced through scouring phenomenon. Despite the hydraulic approaches for studying the scouring/sedimentation processes in streams, hyd ...
model validation; neural networks; prediction; rivers; salinity; sediments; stream flow; suspended sediment; time series analysis; water temperature; wavelet; Yangtze River
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... Suspended sediment is of importance in river and dam engineering. Due to its high nonlinearity and stochasticity, sediment prediction by conventional methods is a challenging task. Consequently, this paper establishes a new hybrid model for an improved forecast of suspended sediment concentration (SSC). It is a nonlinear autoregressive network with exogenous inputs (NARX) integrated with a data pr ...
digestion; electrical conductivity; estuaries; metadata; microplastics; nitrates; nitrites; pH; phosphates; rivers; salinity; sediments; soil; stormwater; surface water; water quality; wetlands; Western Australia
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... Sediment and water samples were collected using transects and grids within sampling strata, in 2019, 2020, and 2021 from a riparian reserve adjoining the Swan River estuary in Western Australia. Different sampling designs were used each year, with transects and/or grids designed to assess changes in sediment and water quality across assumed environmental gradients such as salinity or distance from ...
climate change; erodibility; evolution; floodplains; landscapes; overland flow; permafrost; rivers; runoff; sediments; streams; subsidence; topographic slope; water temperature
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... This paper discusses the potential response of fluvial processes and landforms to the projected permafrost degradation and related hydrological change. Fluvial system structure is presented in the first section of the paper along with permafrost controls over its functioning, which vary across fluvial system compartments. The distinction is drawn between primarily fluvial landforms that are expect ...
bacterial communities; community structure; environment; environmental fate; groundwater; hyporheic zone; metolachlor; mineralization; pollutants; propiconazole; river water; rivers; sediments; sorption
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... Hyporheic sediments are influenced by physical, biological, and chemical processes due to the interactions with river water and has been shown to play an important role in the environmental fate of pesticides. Therefore, this study evaluated the bacterial degradation potential of MCPA, metolachlor and propiconazole in hyporheic sediments sampled along a 20 km long stretch of an agriculturally impa ...
catenas; evolution; rivers; sediment contamination; sediments; China; Yellow River
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... The delayed response of channel evolution upstream of dams to base-level changes has not yet been thoroughly understood. In this paper, we studied the delayed response of the morphological adjustment at the middle Yellow and lower Wei Rivers upstream of the Sanmenxia Dam, China, based on data of water volume, sediment load, cross-sectional profiles, and erosion/deposition volumes during 1960–2018. ...
Nelumbo lutea; Potamogeton nodosus; Sagittaria latifolia; altitude; community structure; flooding tolerance; floodplains; hurricanes; lakes; littoral zone; plant communities; rivers; sediments; species richness; spring; vegetation; wetlands; Louisiana; Mississippi River
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... Herbaceous wetland vegetation species percent cover data collected over five growing seasons (2007–2011) was used to define unique species assemblages along the elevation gradient of deltaic islands in the actively prograding deltaic floodplain wetlands in the Wax Lake Delta, a major distributary of the Mississippi River. The passage of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in September 2008 as well as a majo ...
... The microplastic (MP) contamination of oceans, freshwaters, and soils has become one of the major challenges within the Anthropocene. MP is transported in large quantities through river systems from land to sea and is deposited in river sediments and floodplains. As part of the river system, floodplains and their soils are known for their sink function with respect to sediments, nutrients, and pol ...
... Pollutants and excessive nutrient inputs into rivers pose a problem for aquatic ecosystems. Humans are also at risk when these substances enter the food chain via drinking water supplies and food. Water quality monitoring and research on pollutant transport are important components for protecting humans and endangered species. Since there are few ready and easy-to-use suspended sediment samplers f ...
... The ecological heterogeneity created by river bends benefits the diversity of microorganisms, which is vital for the pollutant degradation and overall river health. However, quantitative tools capable of determining the interactions among different trophic levels and species are lacking, and research regarding ecological heterogeneity has been limited to a few species. By integrating the multi-spe ...
Neogene period; basins; dissection; lakes; river valleys; rivers; sediments; surface water; tectonics; Arizona; New Mexico
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... The middle and upper Gila River crosses the tectonic and physiographic grain from western New Mexico into central Arizona. Hypotheses to explain the river's course involve filling and spilling of lakes, headward erosion, or some combination. Since 2012, we mapped the surficial geology of the eastern part of Safford Valley, southeastern Arizona, and described basin fill, river and tributary deposit ...
... CO₂ assimilation by autotrophic microbes in wetland sediments has substantial significance in global warming control. However, among wetland types in the lake basin, the differences in the carbon sequestration processes undertaken by autotrophic microorganisms remain unclear. We aimed to investigate these differences and compared the sediment CO₂-fixation rates (CFRs) and the cbbL- and coxL-contai ...
... Nitrate (NO₃⁻) and ammonium (NH₄⁺) are reactive nitrogen (Nᵣ₎ forms that can exacerbate eutrophication in coastal regions. NO₃⁻ can be lost to the atmosphere as N₂ gas driven by direct denitrification, coupled nitrification-denitrification and annamox or retained within the ecosystems through conversion of NO₃⁻ to NH₄⁺ via dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA). Denitrification and DNR ...
... PURPOSE: Microorganisms are an essential component of riverine ecosystems. However, the assembly mechanisms of riverine microbial sub-communities with different rarity are poorly understood. Thus, this study aimed to examine the assembly mechanisms of microbial communities and the sub-communities with different rarity in soils, sediments, and water along the Nu River. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Water, ...
... We collected the farmland soil and the sediment, carried out sample speciation detection and distribution analyses, explored environmental self-purification on the distribution of Cd and As of agricultural sources. There were significant differences between total Cd and total As and between speciation distribution in the orders of magnitude. Total Cd (mean content was 1.74 mg kg⁻¹) and total As (m ...