Download or read book Assessment of Levels and Sources of Trace Element Air Pollution the Biomonitoring Approach the Third International Workshop on Biomonitoring of Atmospheric Air Pollution BioMap Held at Bled Slovenia September 21 25 2003 written by Zvonka Jeran and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessment of Levels and Sources of Trace Element Air Pollution the Biomonitoring Approach written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biomonitoring of Atmospheric Pollution with Emphasis on Trace Elements written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains papers presented at the Second International Workshop on Biomonitoring of Atmospheric Pollution (with emphasis on trace elements) - BioMAP II. Coverage includes goals and quality assessment of biomonitoring surveys, the applicability of bio-organisms in both qualitative and quantitative senses, and response modelling.
Download or read book Biomonitoring of Atmospheric Pollution with Emphasis on Trace Elements BioMAP II written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trace Elements in Terrestrial Plants written by Roberto Bargagli and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unique collection of case studies, this book provides detailed coverage of metal biomonitoring and bioremediation in terrestrial ecosystems using higher plants, lichens, mosses and fungi. Emphasis is placed on application rather than theory. It gives an exhaustive account of the most reliable procedures for sampling, sample preparation, analytical determinations and interpretation of data. Using an ecophysiological approach, metal uptake by plants and metal transfer along terrestrial food chains are examined.
Download or read book Biomonitoring of Atmospheric Pollution written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biological Monitoring of Toxic Trace Elements written by Dale W. Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biomonitoring of Atmospheric Pollution with Emphasis on Trace Elements written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biomonitoring of Air Pollution Using Mosses and Lichens written by Mira Aničić Uroević and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air pollution has been recognised as the worlds top problem in many strategic environmental policies. However, it is still inadequately corroborated by regulatory monitoring due to the balance between costs and practicable constraints. The variability in air pollution patterns additionally emphasises a need for feasible approaches to extensive screening of pollutants. To achieve highly temporally -- and spatially -- resolved measurements, biomonitoring (ie: the use of living organisms to determine changes in the environment has been utilised in the investigating of a complementary method to regulatory measurements). The book aims to give reviews of research over the last decade of the most recommended organisms for monitoring airborne inorganic and organic pollutants. Naturally growing mosses and lichens have been used as passive biomonitors of long-term atmospheric deposition of the pollutants across remote areas. To overcome scarcity of these biomonitors in anthropogenically devastated areas, an active biomonitoring approach has been investigated. Specifically, the use of moss and lichen bags represents a convenient technique for easily performed biomonitoring of short-term and small-scale pollutant distribution, especially in urban and industrial areas. As a new direction in biomonitoring, magnetic properties of the biomonitors have been investigated as a valuable proxy for ambient particle pollution. This book moves beyond the attempt to promote biomonitoring as an effective approach for screening air quality that should be considered for implementation into laws and regulations against air pollution. Finally, the authors review the latest research in the field of air pollution biomonitoring, which is vital for everyone engaged in solving environmental issues.
Download or read book Assessing Air Pollution Impacts written by Martha M. Makholm and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atmospheric Trace Elements from Natural and Industrial Sources written by Jean Servant and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atmospheric Trace Elements and Their Application in Tracing Air Pollution written by Yin-Sang Shum and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The atmospheric trace element abundances associated with several major sources of air pollution in Western Oregon, such as the paper industry, the metallurgical processing industry, the plywood industry and agricultural field burning have been measured by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA). Air samples were collected directly from industrial stacks and during the field burning season using high volume air samplers, tape samplers and a cascade impactor. Nuclepore filter paper and Handiwrap were used as collection media for air particulates. The results show that some of the trace elements are highly correlated with a particular source of pollution, e. the high concentration of Zr, Hf, Ta, As, Cl, and Br associated with the metallurgical processing company; Na, Cl, Br, Cu, V, Co, Cr and Hg with the paper company; Na, K, Cl, Cr, Cu, Br and Hg with the plywood company and Ti, Na, Al, K, and Fe with agricultural field burning. Of all these characteristic elements, only Zr, Hf, Ta and As could be used as "natural occurring" tracers for tracing the dispersal pattern of stack effluent from a particular source. The concentrations of potentially toxic elements such as Hg, A.s, Se, and V emitted from these sources into the atmosphere were found to be too low to cause any health hazard in the area concerned. The atmospheric trace element abundances in Albany (an industrial area) and in Corvallis (a rural area) were also measured. Abnormally high trace element concentrations were found in the Albany area. Most of the trace element concentrations are highly correlated to the industries in the area. The rural air in Corvallis, on the other hand, shows very low trace element concentrations and may serve as an indication of the "continental background" contribution to atmospheric abundance. An artificial activable tracer technique using some of the rareearth elements (Dy, Sm, La, and Ce) was also developed to monitor stack effluent. These tracers were used in testing the generalized Gaussian plume model (Gifford, 1962) and Hewson's trapping plume model (Hewson, 1958) applied to describe the dispersal pattern of stack effluent in the Albany area. These models were found to work quite well under atmospheric stabilities types D, C, and B (Pasquill's classification, 1962) and not to work well under very turbulent conditions (atmospheric stability type A. or above). These meteorological models along with the techniques of multiple regression analysis were applied to predict the emission rates of the stack effluent involving multiple sources of air pollution in the Albany area. The artificial activable tracers were used as source tracers. It was found that these models, in general, can be applied to predict the emission rates withinafactor of two in multiple sources involving three stacks.
Download or read book Trace Element Emissions written by Leslie L. Sloss and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Quality written by Ashok Kumar and published by IntechOpen. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air pollution is about five decades or so old field and continues to be a global concern. Therefore, the governments around the world are involved in managing air quality in their countries for the welfare of their citizens. The management of air pollution involves understanding air pollution sources, monitoring of contaminants, modeling air quality, performing laboratory experiments, the use of satellite images for quantifying air quality levels, indoor air pollution, and elimination of contaminants through control. Research activities are being performed on every aspect of air pollution throughout the world, in order to respond to public concerns. The book is grouped in five different sections. Some topics are more detailed than others. The readers should be aware that multi-authored books have difficulty maintaining consistency. A reader will find, however, that each chapter is intellectually stimulating. Our goal was to provide current information and present a reasonable analysis of air quality data compiled by knowledgeable professionals in the field of air pollution.
Download or read book The Vegetation of Egypt written by M.A. Zahran and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to compile and integrate the information documented by many botanists, both Egyptians and others, about the vegetation of Egypt. The first treatise on the flora of Egypt, by Petrus Forsskäl, was published in 1775. Records of the Egyptian flora made during the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt (1778-1801) were provided by AR. Delile from 1809 to 1812 (Kassas, 1981). The early beginning of ecological studies of the vegetation of Egypt extended to the mid-nineteenth century. Two traditions may be re cognized. The first was general exploration and survey, for which one name is symbolic: Georges-Auguste Schweinfurth (1836-1925), a German scientist and explorer who lived in Egypt from 1863 to 1914. The second tradition was ecophysiological to explain the plant life in the dry desert. The work of G. Volkens (1887) remains a classic on xerophytism. These two traditions were maintained and expanded in further phases of ecological development associated with the es tablishment of the Egyptian University in 1925 (now the University the Swedish Gunnar of Cairo). The first professor of botany was Täckholm (1925-1929). He died young, and his wife Vivi Täckholm devoted her life to studying the flora of Egypt and gave leadership and inspiration to plant taxonomists in Egypt for some 50 years. She died in 1978. The second professor of botany in Egypt was F. W. Oliver (1929- 1932) followed by the British ecologist F. J. Lewis (1935-1947).
Download or read book A Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Egypt written by Sherif Baha el Din and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides concise, reliable, and up-to-date information on all 118 species currently recognized from Egypt, with detailed review of their taxonomy, identification, natural history, ecology, and conservation. This volume is based on the author's twenty-year experience with the reptile and amphibian fauna of Egypt and the Middle East, which includes extensive fieldwork and research. In total, the current work adds almost 20 percent to the previously reported fauna from Egypt, and presents many taxonomic innovations that are reported and elaborated here for the first time." "Each species entry contains concise information, including synonymy, tanxonomic notes, world and Egypt distributions, distinguishing features, habitat, ecology and conservation status. Over 130 high-quality color photographs and line drawings illustrate all the species dealt with. With easy-to-use keys, accurate distribution maps, diagnostic illustrations, a comprehensive bibliography, this guide is a valuable tool in the identification, study, and conservation of the animals."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Flora of Egypt written by Loutfy Boulos and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
