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Environments, Volume 10, Issue 8

August 2023 - 17 articles

Cover Story: The Living Docks program is a citizen–science initiative started at the Florida Institute of Technology for lagoon restoration. Public and private docks are volunteered to become Living Docks, where oyster mats are attached to pilings to provide a natural substrate for benthic organism growth. The community development on the oyster mats boosts water filtration to improve overall water quality and combat anthropogenic effects on the lagoon. The purpose of this project was to model benthic settlement and recruitment of prominent organisms on the Living Dock oyster mats at research sites with specific environmental factors (e.g., temperature, salinity, turbidity). The results provide insight into how conditions surrounding the Living Docks impact benthic growth and can aid in restoration. View this paper
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Articles (17)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,074 Views
16 Pages

Heterogeneous Activation of Persulfate by Nickel Oxide/Strontium Carbonate Composite for Sulfamethoxazole Degradation in Water

  • Despoina Jessica Skempi,
  • Konstantinos Kouvelis,
  • Athanasia Petala,
  • Georgios Bampos and
  • Zacharias Frontistis

The development of efficient heterogeneous persulfate activators is one of the main research topics in the wastewater treatment area. The present work deals with the heterogeneous activation of sodium persulfate (SPS) using nickel oxide/strontium car...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,961 Views
14 Pages

Evaluation of Soil Heavy Metal Contamination and Potential Human Health Risk inside Forests, Wildfire Forests and Urban Areas

  • Speranza Claudia Panico,
  • Lucia Santorufo,
  • Valeria Memoli,
  • Francesco Esposito,
  • Giorgia Santini,
  • Gabriella Di Natale,
  • Marco Trifuoggi,
  • Rossella Barile and
  • Giulia Maisto

Recently, due to rapid industrialization and urbanization, many studies have focused on the assessment of soil metal contamination. The present research aimed to investigate the concentration of potentially hazardous elements (Al, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,491 Views
11 Pages

Local Variability of Trace Element Concentration in Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) Nestlings from the Po Plain (Northern Italy)

  • Alessandra Costanzo,
  • Michela Sturini,
  • Federica Maraschi,
  • Manuela Caprioli,
  • Andrea Romano,
  • Simone Vanni,
  • Marco Parolini,
  • Antonella Profumo,
  • Diego Rubolini and
  • Roberto Ambrosini
  • + 1 author

Birds are commonly used as bioindicators, and their feathers are considered suitable tissues for assessing the presence of contaminants, such as trace elements, in the environment. In agroecosystems, trace elements’ occurrence can be associated...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,732 Views
20 Pages

Although beef production is one of the most valuable drivers of the global livestock economy, it is considered the main contributor to GHG emissions derived from livestock. This study’s objectives were to estimate the GHG emissions (expressed i...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,878 Views
16 Pages

Prediction of Cyanotoxin Episodes in Freshwater: A Case Study on Microcystin and Saxitoxin in the Lobo Reservoir, São Paulo State, Brazil

  • Munique de Almeida Bispo Moraes,
  • Raphaella de Abreu Magalhães Rodrigues,
  • Raju Podduturi,
  • Niels Ole Gerslev Jørgensen and
  • Maria do Carmo Calijuri

Freshwater reservoirs constitute an important source of drinking water, but eutrophication and higher temperatures increase the risk of more frequent blooms of cyanobacteria, including species that produce toxins. To improve the prediction of cyanoto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,746 Views
19 Pages

Maceration of Waste Cork in Binary Hydrophilic Solvents for the Production of Functional Extracts

  • Umut Şen,
  • Catarina Viegas,
  • Maria Paula Duarte,
  • Elisabete Muchagato Maurício,
  • Catarina Nobre,
  • Ricardo Correia,
  • Helena Pereira and
  • Margarida Gonçalves

Waste-grade cork samples of Quercus cerris were subjected to maceration extraction using 7 different solvents, including pure water (I), pure acetone (II), 75% aqueous ethanol (III), 75% aqueous methanol (IV), 75% aqueous acetone (V), 50% aqueous ace...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
6,557 Views
18 Pages

Machine Learning Techniques to Predict the Air Quality Using Meteorological Data in Two Urban Areas in Sri Lanka

  • Lakindu Mampitiya,
  • Namal Rathnayake,
  • Lee P. Leon,
  • Vishwanadham Mandala,
  • Hazi Md. Azamathulla,
  • Sherly Shelton,
  • Yukinobu Hoshino and
  • Upaka Rathnayake

The effect of bad air quality on human health is a well-known risk. Annual health costs have significantly been increased in many countries due to adverse air quality. Therefore, forecasting air quality-measuring parameters in highly impacted areas i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,946 Views
11 Pages

Ammonia-nitrogen (NH3-N) loss from agriculture decreases crop yield potential and environmental quality. Incorporating animal manures by chisel plowing (CP) can reduce NH3 loss but may increase crop residue loss compared to lower disturbance incorpor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,993 Views
17 Pages

The EN 1793-5 and EN 1793-6 standards have been in use for many years as a method for measuring the intrinsic characteristics of noise barriers installed along highways and railways. They require a sound source and a grid of microphones, to be placed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,325 Views
20 Pages

An increase in population along the Indian River Lagoon has led to eutrophication, a decline in water quality, and overall degradation. The Living Docks program is a citizen–science initiative started at the Florida Institute of Technology for...

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