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Jingshi Liu, Guligena Halimulati, Yuting Liu, Jianxin Mu and Namaiti Tuoheti
The climatic warming-induced shrinking of permafrost currently encompasses 65% of alpine areas in North China, where a large population relies on its water and land resources. With increasing recognition of the economic and ecological impacts of permafro...
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Ryota Sone, Mitsuyasu Waku, Satoshi Yamada, Dai Miyawaki, Toshiro Ishida, Satoru Kamohara, Tetsunori Inoue and Teruaki Suzuki
To investigate the mass mortality of the macrobenthos community, primarily asari clams, triggered by upwelling-driven hypoxia, we conducted continuous observations of temperature, salinity, and DO, and monthly macrobenthos monitoring on the Rokujo tidal ...
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Mariusz Kluska and Joanna Jablonska
In recent years, human impact on the Earth?s ecological environment has become increasingly visible, with serious negative consequences. One of the most important pollutants are heavy metals which can easily bind to sediments. Due to their toxic behavior...
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Marco Carnevale Miino, Tatána Hale?ová, Tomá? Macsek, Jakub Racek and Petr Hlavínek
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have been under intense investigation by the scientific community due to their persistence in the environment and potentially hazardous effects on living organisms. In order to tackle the presence of these comp...
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Enda O?Connell, Greg O?Donnell and Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Hurst?s seminal characterisation of long-term persistence (LTP) in geophysical records more than seven decades ago continues to inspire investigations into the Hurst phenomenon, not just in hydrology and climatology, but in many other scientific fields. ...
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Chen Yi-Ron, Hou Wen-Shang, Huang Chen-Kang and Chou Chu-Yang
Reservoirs are artificial ecosystems that modify the hydrological and environmental components nearby. The long-term monitoring of fish assemblages in reservoirs may provide key information to understand how these artificial ecosystems allow fish populat...
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Evangelos Rozos, Panayiotis Dimitriadis, Katerina Mazi and Antonis D. Koussis
Time series analysis is a major mathematical tool in hydrology, with the moving average being the most popular model type for this purpose due to its simplicity. During the last 20 years, various studies have focused on an important statistical character...
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Gregory Churko, Felix Kienast and Janine Bolliger
Preserving functional connectivity is a key goal of conservation management. However, the spatially confined conservation areas may not allow for dispersal and gene flow for the intended long-term persistence of populations in fragmented landscapes. We p...
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Boitumelo Masilela,John Pangala,Jurie van Vuuren
AbstractPurpose: The primary aim of this study was to investigate the entrepreneurial intentions of social grant recipients in the cities of Johannesburg and Tshwane. This study further investigated the extent to which social grants influence the entrepr...
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Jeanine Brantschen, Sebastian Gygax, Adrien Mestrot and Aline Frossard
Mercury (Hg) is one of the most toxic heavy metals and is known for its persistence in the environment and potential to accumulate along the food chain. In many terrestrial polluted sites, earthworms are in direct contact with Hg contamination by ingesti...
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