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Environmental toxicology and chemistry in Latin America
(Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2012-05)
Environmental toxicology and chemistry in Latin America is a relatively young discipline. Whereas the first international publications in the United States, for example, can be tracked to the 1920s and 1930s [1–4], in Latin ...
Environmental health education in schools as strategy for rodent control: An experience in a Shantytown of Buenos Aires, Argentina
(Springer, 2014-03)
The general aim of this study was to assess the possibility of including elements of environmental health education within the curriculum of a school located in a shantytown of Buenos Aires city, Argentina. An environmental ...
Procrustes analysis as a tool for land management
(Elsevier Science, 2010-03)
Generalized Procrustes analysis (GPA) is a multivariate technique that involves transformations of data matrices to provide optimal comparability. We propose GPA to quantify the concordance among sets of variables that ...
Environmental Health Education in Schools as Strategy for Rodent Control: An Experience in a Shantytown of Buenos Aires, Argentina
(Springer, 2014-03)
The general aim of this study was to assess the possibility of including elements of environmental health education within the curriculum of a school located in a shantytown of Buenos Aires city, Argentina. An environmental ...
Four scenarios of environmental risk of diclofenac in European groundwater ecosystems
(Elsevier, 2021-10)
Groundwater is the largest source of liquid freshwater on Earth. Groundwater ecosystems harbor a rich biodiversity, mainly consisting of microbes and invertebrates that provide substantial ecological services. Despite its ...
The importance of biogeographical history and extant environmental conditions as drivers of freshwater decapod distribution in southern South America
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2016-05)
A topical issue in macroecology is whether the distribution of organisms is related to biogeographical history or current environmental conditions. Distributions of freshwater decapods in southern South America have been ...
Assessment of the environmental quality of two urbanized lotic systems using multiple indicators
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2017-09-03)
Urbanization impacts ecosystems, generating habitat loss and fragmentation, loss of diversity, increase in runoff and contaminant discharges, and the establishment of exotic species. Potrero de los Funes Village (San ...
Emerging themes in food security: Environmental justice, extended families and the multiple roles of grandmothers
(BioMed Central, 2018-09)
Background: Pre- and perinatal nutritional status defines the development of adult metabolism and energy balance in humans. Young children in poor households are disproportionately more vulnerable to food insecurity given ...
Chironomid genera distribution related to environmental characteristics of a highly impacted basin (Argentina, South America)
(Springer Heidelberg, 2019-03)
The objective of the present study was to investigate the responses of the chironomid communities (Diptera: Chironomidae) to environmental variables in four moderately and highly disturbed rivers located in one of the most ...