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Rubbish dumps as invasive plant epicentres
(Springer, 2018-09)
It is widely known that disturbed areas favour plant species invasion. However, the presence and impacts of introduced plants at rubbish dumps and landfills are less clear. We conducted a literature review to evaluate ...
Bodies in the tip: Deaths and politicised deaths in Buenos Aires's refuse
(Manchester University Press, 2019-02)
The appearance of corpses in rubbish tips is not a recent phenomenon. In Argentina, tips have served not only as sites for the disposal of bodies but also as murder scenes. Many of these other bodies found in such places ...
More massive but potentially less healthy: Black vultures feeding in rubbish dumps differed in clinical and biochemical parameters with wild feeding birds
(PeerJ Inc., 2018-04)
Background: Organic waste is one of the most important anthropogenic food subsidies used by different species. However, there is little information about the health impact that rubbish dumps produce on species foraging in ...
Comparison of lead contamination among related scavenging birds sharing food sources: a call for caution when using surrogate species
(Wiley, 2020-01)
Lead contamination is a global problem affecting a large number of bird species around the world. Among the different avian guilds, vultures and facultative scavengers are particularly threatened by this toxic metal. ...
Destino do lixo domiciliar nos assentamentos de reforma agrária "Regina" e "Lago Azul" de Pedras Altas
(Universidade Federal de Santa MariaCentro de Ciências Rurais, 2011-08)
The means environment, in the last years, comes being exhaustedly argued in
function of the nature’ s degradation and the decadence by consequence, of the life’
s quality, so much in the cities as in the field. This ...
A recently established Kelp Gull colony in a freshwater environment supported by an inland refuse dump in Patagonia
(Csiro Publishing, 2012-05)
Populations of several species of gull are increasing worldwide as a result of a plentiful supply of anthropogenic food in urbanised environments. In light of this, we decided to examine the importance of anthropogenic ...
Ubi.Bas: Facilitando la recolección de basura de la ciudad de Curicó
(Universidad de Talca (Chile). Escuela de Ingeniería Civil en Computación., 2014)