ASSESSMENT OF TOXIC METALS IN SEDIMENTS OF MERIÇ, TUNCA AND ERGENE RIVERS BY USING BIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL RISK INDICES [PDF]
The Meriç River, the longest river of the Balkans, is the most important aquatic ecosystem within the Thrace Region of Turkey, along with its main tributaries, the Tunca and Ergene Rivers. In this study, the sediment quality of Meriç, Tunca, and Ergene Rivers was evaluated by using the Potential Ecological Risk Index (RI) and the Biological Risk Index (
Tokatli, Cem, Bastatli, Yasin
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The Ergene River is located in the Thrace Region of Turkey and is polluted by industrial and municipal waste. In the present study, we investigated the genotoxic and cytotoxic effects of water samples on Gambussia affinis in vivo using the piscine ...
Martin Orlinov KANEV +2 more
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Determination of Water Quality of Ergene River By Planning Environmental Information System
Today, it has become necessary to deal with the water resources problems by studies on regional basis or even on the basis of river basin. In this study, considering the water quality as a limiting factor for the Ergene Basin, it was decided that an analysis of the variation of water quality with respect to years is necessary, and therefore, the ...
Ordu, Şeyma, Demir, Ahmet
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Assessment of Water Contamination in Fluvial Ecosystems of Thrace Region (Turkey) by Means of Water Quality Index and Geographic Information System Technology [PDF]
Aim of the study: Thrace Region is the most important geographical regions of Turkey in terms of agricultural and industrial production. Meriç – Ergene River Basin is the main watershed of this significant region and there are many streams feeding the ...
Cem Tokatli , Alper Uğurluoğlu
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Spatial and temporal evaluation of the physicochemical quality of domestic/industrial water in the Kırklareli Reservoir (Turkish Thrace) [PDF]
The Kırklareli Reservoir, located in the Meriç-Ergene River Basin, is an important drinking/industrial freshwater resource of the Kırklareli Province.
Güher Hüseyin +4 more
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Thrace Basin—An Oligocene Clastic Basin Formed During the Exhumation of the Rhodope Complex
Abstract Some orogenic sedimentary basins are difficult to assign to a particular category. An example is the hydrocarbon‐bearing Thrace Basin in the northern Aegean. It has more than 9‐km‐thick Cenozoic clastic sediment, and is spatially associated with the Rhodope metamorphic core complex in the west, and with the Tethyan subduction‐accretion ...
Aral I. Okay +7 more
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Livestock Support and Water Depletion in Turkey
Abstract Turkey serves as an important food hub for neighboring countries in the water‐scarce Middle East and North African region, and self‐sufficiency in agri‐food production is one of the country's major policy objectives. The Turkish government had therefore introduced various support measures for its inefficient livestock sector, including ...
Franziska Schuenemann, Sebastian Hess
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Abstract Current approaches to sustainability performance primarily capture the reduction of negative impacts, but are rather silent about creating positive sustainability performance (PSP). This paper draws on framing effects theory to argue why interviewees in our abductive single case study of the life cycle of a laundry detergent struggled to ...
Michael Kühnen +2 more
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House prices in the Ottoman Empire: evidence from eighteenth‐century Edirne†
Abstract This study uses a new dataset of 2,246 notarial deeds of house sales from one of the major cities of the Ottoman Empire, Edirne, covering the period from 1720 to 1814. It estimates real hedonic house prices and urban wealth inequality for the housing market.
Gürer Karagedikli, Ali Coşkun Tunçer
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Spatiotemporal Rainfall Distribution of Soan River Basin, Pothwar Region, Pakistan
This study evaluates the spatiotemporal rainfall variability over the semimountainous Soan River Basin (SRB) of sub‐Himalayan Pothwar region, Pakistan. The temporal rainfall trend analysis of sixteen rain gauges was performed on annual basis with long‐term (1981–2016) data.
Fiaz Hussain +3 more
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