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Environments, Volume 10, Issue 9

2023 September - 17 articles

Cover Story: Forest soils contain a large amount of soil organic matter; therefore, small changes in these ecosystems have effects on the climate. If not preserved, soil organic carbon can be released as greenhouses gases in the atmosphere, increasing global warming. Therefore, a deep understanding of the soil organic matter processes is mandatory to reconstruct the carbon cycle dynamic in the forest ecosystem. In this context, the SuoBo project investigated the evolution of soil organic matter contents and isotopic signatures in two mountainous forest ecosystems located on the Apennine chain of the Emilia-Romagna Region (Northern Italy). The results of this work showed the different impact of the pedo-climatic conditions in two nearby farms, which should be considered in our climate change context. View this paper
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Articles (17)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,261 Views
21 Pages

When the Household Becomes Environmentally Friendly—Dynamic Simulation of Hybrid Energy System’s Feasibility

  • Erlanda Atvare,
  • Armands Gravelsins,
  • Edgars Kudurs,
  • Stelios Rozakis and
  • Dagnija Blumberga

Decentralized electricity production at household scale, particularly by solar panels, has recently grown due to increased technology feasibility and financial support programs. Further development in this field requires the introduction and efficien...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,931 Views
13 Pages

The assessment and documentation of visual, auditory, and olfactory sensory experiences within urban environments is an emerging focus of research that has implications for the understanding of cultural heritage as well as community mental health. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,324 Views
14 Pages

To minimize the eutrophication pressure along the Gulf of Mexico or reduce the size of the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico, it is important to understand the underlying temporal and spatial variations and correlations in excess nutrient loads, whi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
60 Citations
10,553 Views
27 Pages

The Impact of Micro- and Nanoplastics on Aquatic Organisms: Mechanisms of Oxidative Stress and Implications for Human Health—A Review

  • Eugenio Geremia,
  • Maria Teresa Muscari Tomajoli,
  • Carola Murano,
  • Adriana Petito and
  • Gianluca Fasciolo

In recent years, interest in the impact of environmental pollutants on the ecosystem has increased significantly, with particular attention being paid to the relationship between climate change and the aquatic world. This is because increasing pollut...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,440 Views
27 Pages

The main objective of this review was to determine the main risks that agricultural workers are exposed to during pesticide application, which may have a harmful effect on their health and on public health. This systematic review was based on the PRI...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
16,719 Views
35 Pages

The exacerbation of the global water crisis due to an increase in global population, industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural activities, along with global climate change and limited water resources, makes water reuse inevitable in all conti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,286 Views
21 Pages

Groundwater Recharge Assessment for Small Karstic Catchment Basins with Different Extents of Anthropogenic Development

  • Yaakov Anker,
  • Alexander Gimburg,
  • Michael Zilberbrand,
  • Yakov Livshitz and
  • Vladimir Mirlas

Climate change and anthropogenic development considerably influence groundwater resource distribution and conditions. Catchment basin groundwater recharge—discharge computation reliability is needed for effective groundwater management policy f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,035 Views
20 Pages

Graph-Based Deep Learning Model for Forecasting Chloride Concentration in Urban Streams to Protect Salt-Vulnerable Areas

  • Victor Oliveira Santos,
  • Paulo Alexandre Costa Rocha,
  • Jesse Van Griensven Thé and
  • Bahram Gharabaghi

In cold-climate regions, road salt is used as a deicer for winter road maintenance. The applied road salt melts ice and snow on roads and can be washed off through storm sewer systems into nearby urban streams, harming the freshwater ecosystem. There...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,675 Views
17 Pages

Soil Organic Carbon Depletion in Managed Temperate Forests: Two Case Studies from the Apennine Chain in the Emilia-Romagna Region (Northern Italy)

  • Valentina Brombin,
  • Gian Marco Salani,
  • Mauro De Feudis,
  • Enrico Mistri,
  • Nicola Precisvalle and
  • Gianluca Bianchini

Forest soils contain a large amount of organic carbon (OC); therefore, small changes in these ecosystems have effects on climate. In this study, variation in the quantity of C pools that occurred in one year in the soil of temperate forests managed b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,952 Views
18 Pages

Global warming and other environmental concerns drive the search for alternative fuels in international shipping. A life-cycle analysis (LCA) can be utilized to assess the environmental impact of different fuels, thereby enabling the identification o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,169 Views
15 Pages

Syntaxonomy of Charophyte Algal Communities in the Northeastern Part of the Black Sea (Russia)

  • Dmitry F. Afanasyev,
  • Natalia S. Berezenko,
  • Sophia Barinova and
  • Shamil R. Abdullin

Within the northeastern part of the Black Sea, the vegetation of charophytes was studied using the Braun-Blanquet approach. For the first time, five communities are described, including three associations and two subassociations from the alliance Cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,891 Views
20 Pages

The Charophytes (Charophyceae, Characeae) from Dagestan Aquatic Habitats, North Caucasus: Biogeographical and Barcoding Perspectives

  • Roman E. Romanov,
  • Maxim M. Mallaliev,
  • Sophia Barinova,
  • Vyacheslav Yu. Nikulin and
  • Andrey A. Gontcharov

The charophytes in many regions of the world are still poorly understood. This hampers the synthesis of distributional and ecological datasets at worldwide and continental scales, as well as complicates the generalization of species concepts for wide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,860 Views
22 Pages

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) play a critical role in mitigating adverse environmental impacts of urban and industrial wastewater by removing pollutants and reducing the risk of contamination. Discharges of treated effluents from WWTPs can still...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,484 Views
26 Pages

Major- and Trace-Element Geochemistry of Geothermal Water from the Nappe Zone, Northern Tunisia: Implications for Mineral Prospecting and Health Risk Assessment

  • Jamel Ayari,
  • Maurizio Barbieri,
  • Tiziano Boschetti,
  • Anis Barhoumi,
  • Ahmed Sellami,
  • Ahmed Braham,
  • Faouzi Manai,
  • Faouzi Dhaha and
  • Abdelkarim Charef

A comprehensive hydrogeochemical survey of the geothermal waters from the Nappe Zone (Maghrebides fold-and-thrust belt) was undertaken to determine the origins of geothermal waters and to assess the health risks associated with their potentially toxi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,774 Views
24 Pages

Agricultural soils close to mining establishments may suffer from airborne pollution, due to excavation and transportation activities. To assess the impact of soil pollution from potentially toxic elements (PTEs) on soil and human health in agricultu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,402 Views
23 Pages

Reuse of Lake Sediments in Sustainable Mortar

  • Audrey Maria Noemi Martellotta,
  • Andrea Petrella,
  • Francesco Gentile,
  • Daniel Levacher and
  • Alberto Ferruccio Piccinni

The study analyses the possible valorisation of lake sediments for sustainable mortar, in accordance with the principles of the circular economy, to obtain a sustainable material, since reuse occurs without any kind of preliminary treatment and prese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,043 Views
9 Pages

Conventional methods to analyze biochemical processes related to contaminant toxicity usually require the sacrifice of animals to collect tissues and organs. However, for ethical reasons and especially for endangered species, non- or minimal-invasive...

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Environments - ISSN 2076-3298