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Air pollution and health: bridging the gap from sources to health outcomes: conference summary
(SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AGCHAM, 2012)
Air Pollution and Health: Bridging the Gap from Sources to Health Outcomes, an international specialty conference sponsored by the American Association for Aerosol Research, was held to address key uncertainties in our ...
Temporal and spatial changes in primary biomass as a diagnosis and prognosis in environmental impact (Rapel Reservoir, Central Chile)
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994)
Extensive mortality of silversides (Atherinidae), Odontesthes bonariensis, was recorded during July 1989 in the Rapel Reservoir. Temporal and spatial changes observed in biomass concentration (chlorophyll-a) through both ...
Emprego de imageamento passivo na análise da variabilidade espacial da turbidez no espelho d'água do Lago Paranoá, Distrito Federal
(Assoc Brasileira Engenharia Sanitaria Ambiental, 2013-01-01)
The water has an important role in human society, especially in Brazil. Its uses are multiple, including supply, energy production, recreation and others. The National Policy for Water Resources (Law No 9.433/97) states ...
Mapping the coloured dissolved organic matter absorption coefficient in a eutrophic reservoir using remotely sensed images
(2018-10-02)
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) has 3 major sources: (1) autochthonous or surface water-derived of algal origin, (2) allochthonous or terrestrial material from soils, and (3) synthetic organic substances of man-made or ...
Terrestrial ecologists should stop ignoring plastic pollution in the Anthropocene time
(Elsevier, 2019-06)
The massive production of plastic started in mid 20th century. Today, only 60 years later and despite its obvious benefits, plastic pollution is ubiquitous, influencing all global environments and the planet's biota, ...
Trichloroacetic acid in the vegetation of polluted and remote areas of both hemispheresFPart I. Its formation, uptake and geographical distribution
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2001-12)
Trichloroacetic acid (TCA; CCl3COOH) is a phytotoxic chemical. Although TCA salts and derivatives were once deployed as herbicides against perennial grasses and weeds, their use has since been banned because of their ...
Developing an advanced PM 25 exposure model in Lima, Peru
(MDPI, 2019)
It is well recognized that exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) affects health adversely, yet few studies from South America have documented such associations due to the sparsity of PM 2.5 measurements. Lima's ...
Functional diversity in the intertidal macrobenthic community at sewage-affected shores from Southwestern Atlantic
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2020-08)
Sewage pollution effect in a coastal area of the Southwestern Atlantic was tested, through the use of analysis of biological traits (BTA) and functional indices. Changes in the macrobenthic functional structure between the ...