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Recent Introduced Algal Species in the Egyptian Marine Waters
Marine non-indigenous species (NIS) pose considerable threats and represent a significant risk to the receiving environments. They could exhibit...
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Exotic species in the Erbario Estense: new plants from the world to sixteenth-century Italy
AbstractRenaissance herbaria may provide precious information on exotic plants known or even introduced in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth...
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Recurring seasonality exposes dominant species and niche partitioning strategies of open ocean picoeukaryotic algae
Ocean spring phytoplankton blooms are dynamic periods important to global primary production. We document vertical patterns of a diverse suite of...
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Determination of biomarkers threshold values and illustration of their use for the diagnostic in large-scale freshwater biomonitoring surveys
BackgroundSeveral biomarkers developed from freshwater sentinel species are used to complement chemical assessment of freshwater ecosystems and...
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons distribution in fish tissues and human health risk assessment on consumption of four fish species collected from Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria
Lagos Lagoon is a very popular lagoon in Lagos state that receives effluents from neighboring industries. These effluents tend to increase the level...
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Detection of mecA positive staphylococcal species in a wastewater treatment plant in South Africa
We investigated the prevalence of antibiotic resistant staphylococci and detection of resistant, virulence, and Spa genes in a South African...
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Massive Fish Kill After the Discharge of Artificial Fertilizer into a Species Rich River in Southwestern Germany: a Conservation Case Study
In the summer of 2015, large amounts of artificial fertilizer containing ammonium nitrate were accidentally discharged into the Jagst River along...
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Modelling the occurrence and spatial distribution of screwworm species in Northern Pakistan
We use binomial kriging to model the spatial distribution of myiasis by three species namely Chrysomya bezziana , Wohlfahrtia magnifica and Lucilia...
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Transition process from fossil energy to photovoltaic energy power of ethnic communities belonging to the natural parks in the Colombian Pacific: A diagnostic study
For an energy transformation project with emerging technologies to be viable and sustainable, it requires community participation, the social...
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Modelling the mixed impacts of multiple invasive alien fish species in a closed freshwater ecosystem in India
Invasive alien species (IAS) influence the trophic organisation and food web structure in an invaded ecosystem, and therefore, it is imperative to...
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Phosphorus geochemical forms and potential bioavailability in surface sediments from Edku Lagoon, Egypt, regarding diagnostic ratios (Fe:P, S:Fe, and OC:OP)
PurposeSediments play an important role in the nutrient dynamics of shallow lakes. In this work, the geochemical characterization of phosphorus (P)...
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Does commercial indoxacarb pose ecotoxicological consequences? Employing a multi-marker approach in the model species Theba pisana
Indoxacarb is one of the most extensively used oxadiazine insecticides worldwide, but it may exert detrimental effects on ecosystems, population...
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Lethal and Sub-lethal Implications of Sodium Chloride Exposure for Adult Unionid Mussel Species: Eurynia dilatata and Lasmigona costata
The elevated use of salt as a de-icing agent on roads in Canada is causing an increase in the chloride concentration of freshwater ecosystems....
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in coastal sediments of Southern Terengganu, South China Sea, Malaysia: source assessment using diagnostic ratios and multivariate statistic
Surface sediments along the Southern Terengganu coast (≤7 km from the coast) were analyzed for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The...
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Investigation of feedstuff contaminated with aflatoxigenic fungi species in the semi-arid region in northeast of Iran
There is a close relationship between human health and the quality of the ration used by domestic animals. Also, molds, like genus of Aspergillus ,...
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Variations in the concentration, source activity, and atmospheric processing of PM2.5-associated water-soluble ionic species over Jammu, India
Concentrations, sources, and atmospheric processing of water-soluble ionic species associated with PM 2.5 collected from 2015 to 2017 were studied in...
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Seasonal trend and source identification of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons associated with fine particulate matters (PM2.5) in Isfahan City, Iran, using diagnostic ratio and PMF model
Particulate matters (PMs) and their associated chemical compounds such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are important factors to evaluate...
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Characterization and microalgal toxicity screening of diagnostic fixer solution toward bioremediation
The present study involves the characterization and microalgal toxicity screening of diagnostic X-ray fixer solution toward utilization as a probable...
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Health Risk Assessment Related to As, Cd and Pb Due to the Consumption of Shrimp Species from Southeast Brazil
The concentrations of hazardous elements (As, Cd and Pb) in four shrimp species caught in fisheries from Southeast Brazil are presented to fill the...
