Ecological assessment of phytoplankton community via microscopic method and 18S rRNA gene sequencing in Pearl River Estuary [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 Monitoring phytoplankton community underpins our understanding of water quality and ecological functions. In this study, we approached phytoplankton abundance, community composition, and diversity by both microscopy and 18S rRNA gene sequencing ...
Peng Bo +5 more
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Detecting Environmental Violations with Satellite Imagery in Near Real Time: Land Application under the Clean Water Act [PDF]
, 2022 This paper introduces a new, highly consequential setting for the use of computer vision for environmental sustainability. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) (aka intensive livestock farms or "factory farms") produce significant manure and pollution.
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Applying the index of watershed integrity to the Matanuska–Susitna basin
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2020 The Matanuska–Susitna Borough is the fastest growing region in the State of Alaska and is impacted by a number of human activities. We conducted a multiscale assessment of the stressors facing the borough by developing and mapping the Index of Watershed ...
Kelsey B. Aho +4 more
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A new Boulenophrys species (Anura, Megophryidae) from the coastal hills of eastern Fujian Province, China [PDF]
ZooKeysA new species of the genus Boulenophrys is described from the coastal hills of eastern Fujian Province, China. The new taxon can be distinguished from all recognized congeners by a combination of discrete morphological character state differences and ...
Shi-Shi Lin +5 more
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Environmental Impacts of Personal Protective Clothing Used to Combat COVID-19 [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Personal protective clothing is critical to shield users from highly infectious diseases including COVID-19. Such clothing is predominantly single-use, made of plastic-based synthetic fibres such as polypropylene and polyester, low cost and able to provide protection against pathogens.
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Corrigendum: Sensitivity of Cuscuta species and their hosts to Anethum graveolens essential oil (2023, vol. 38, issue 1, pp. 33-39, DOI: 10.2298/PIF2301033S) [PDF]
Pesticidi i Fitomedicina, 2023 The original published version of the article contained an error: (1) Figure 2 contains research data repeated from Figure 1. Corrigendum presents the corrected version of Figure 2.
Sarić-Krsmanović Marija +5 more
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Implementing result-based agri-environmental payments by means of modelling [PDF]
Payments by modelled results: a novel design for
agri-environmental schemes. Land Use Policy 102: 105230 (2017), 2019 From a theoretical point of view, result-based agri-environmental payments are clearly preferable to action-based payments. However, they suffer from two major practical disadvantages: costs of measuring the results and payment uncertainty for the participating farmers. In this paper, we propose an alternative design to overcome these two disadvantages
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Habitat Scale Mapping of Fisheries Ecosystem Service Values in Estuaries
Ecology and Society, 2010 Little is known about the variability of ecosystem service values at spatial scales most relevant to local decision makers. Competing definitions of ecosystem services, the paucity of ecological and economic information, and the lack of standardization ...
Timothy G. O'Higgins +4 more
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Investigations Regarding The Contamination with Emerging Pharmaceutical Pollutants in Representative Rivers and Lakes in Romania [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 The presence of emerging pharmaceutical pollutants in the aquatic environment is generally related to anthropogenic activities such as domestic, industrial and hospital wastewater discharges and landfills.
Ghita Gina +6 more
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Protection of entanglement from sudden death using continuous dynamical decoupling [PDF]
Physical Review A 76, 062306 (2007), 2007 We show that continuous dynamical decoupling can protect a two-qubit entangled state from sudden death at finite temperature due to uncorrelated dephasing, bit flipping, and dissipation. We consider a situation where an entangled state shared between two non-interacting qubits is initially prepared and left evolve under the environmental perturbations ...
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