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Lingyan Qi, Jiacong Huang, Qi Huang, Junfeng Gao, Shigang Wang and Yuyin Guo
The development of an ecosystem health index to assess health status in freshwater lakes is urgently needed in China, especially in polluted lakes. This study developed a specific Ecosystem Health Index (LP-EHI) for Lake Poyang in China. LP-EHI quantifie...
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Lan Fu, Xiaoyu Dong, Henglun Shen, Tianshun Zhu and Fangfang Sun
As a coastal city with rapid urbanization and high-intensity human activities, Shenzhen, China has carried out a series of comprehensive treatments for water pollution control and ecological restoration in recent years. However, the restoration effect is...
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Ji Yoon Kim and Kwang-Guk An
This study evaluated integrative river ecosystem health using stressor-based models of physical habitat health, chemical water health, and biological health of fish and identified multiple-stressor indicators influencing the ecosystem health. Integrated ...
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Wei Su, Jiapeng Wu, Bei Zhu, Kaiqi Chen, Wenqi Peng and Baoyue Hu
Health assessment and risk factor identification represent the premise and foundation of scientific management and ecological restoration of urban lakes. Based on in-depth understanding of the nature?society duality of urban lakes, a framework for evalua...
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Huayu Lu, Ke Ma, Xiangyang Chen, Shiwei Zhou, Yiwei Li, Zecheng Zhang, Chu Wang, Fu Chen and Xinya Wen
The incorporation of organic fertilizer is an important practice to improve the sustainability and productivity of crop production and decrease environmental pollution from crop-livestock systems in global agriculture. However, establishing an evaluation...
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Md. Simul Bhuyan, Sayeed Mahmood Belal Haider, Gowhar Meraj, Muhammad Abu Bakar, Md. Tarikul Islam, Mrityunjoy Kunda, Md. Abu Bakar Siddique, Mir Mohammad Ali, Sobnom Mustary, Istiak Ahamed Mojumder and Mohd Aadil Bhat
Heavy metal pollution in marine ecosystems is an escalating environmental concern, largely driven by anthropogenic activities, and poses potential threats to ecological health and human well-being. This study embarked on a comprehensive investigation int...
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Pattira Kasamesiri, Ruamruedee Panchan and Wipavee Thaimuangphol
Microplastic pollution has been identified as a potential threat to the aquatic environment and humans globally, with widespread occurrence in ecosystems, including reservoirs that constitute a key role in ecosystem services for humans. However, the eval...
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Gaoqiang Zhang, Yutong Cheng, Haodong Liu, Chunlei Xiao, Hongfeng Nie, Zhenzhou Zhu, Dan Zhao and Yourang Zan
Water resources in arid and semi-arid areas are limiting factors for ecosystem health and economic development. Therefore, an accurate and reasonable assessment of ecological water demand is crucial for efficient water resource utilization. In this study...
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Karma Tempa, Masengo Ilunga, Abhishek Agarwal and Tashi
Gelephu, located in the Himalayan region, has undergone significant development activities due to its suitable topography and geographic location. This has led to rapid urbanization in recent years. Assessing land use land cover (LULC) dynamics and Norma...
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Jordan Steven Ruiz-Toquica, Luis Alejandro Yañez-Dukon, Carolina Herrera Khenayzir, Isaac Romero Borja, Adolfo Sanjuan-Muñoz, Monica Medina and Andres Franco-Herrera
Improving the availability of new sources of probiotics is essential to continue implementing alternative solutions to improve coral health; one such source is urban corals. However, little is known about urban coral?s health status and whether they can ...
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Lu Wang
In the context of climate change, heat waves are a serious hazard having significant impacts on human health, especially vulnerable populations. Many studies have researched the association between extreme heat and mortality. In the context of urban plan...
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Franklin Paredes-Trejo, Barlin O. Olivares, Yair Movil-Fuentes, Juan Arevalo-Groening and Alfredo Gil
Droughts impact the water cycle, ecological balance, and socio-economic development in various regions around the world. The Orinoco River Basin is a region highly susceptible to droughts. The basin supports diverse ecosystems and supplies valuable resou...
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Jonathan Salar Cabrera and Han Soo Lee
The coastal zone is the environment that connects terrestrial and marine environments. It is the most productive ecosystem on the planet. It has been estimated that 23 percent of the population lives in the coastal regions. The attractive landscape and s...
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Madurya Adikaram, Amarasooriya Pitawala, Hiroaki Ishiga, Daham Jayawardana and Carla M. Eichler
The land-sea interface is considered as a threatening environment due to anthropogenic development activities. Unplanned developments can cause effects on important ecosystems, water and human health as well. In this study, the influence of rapid regiona...
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Ali Khoshnazar, Gerald A. Corzo Perez and Vitali Diaz
Drought characterization and risk assessment are of great significance due to drought?s negative impact on human health, economy, and ecosystem. This paper investigates drought characterization and risk assessment in the Lempa River basin in Central Amer...
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Razieh Namdar, Ezatollah Karami and Marzieh Keshavarz
Climate is changing and mitigation of the corresponding impacts requires assessment of vulnerability and adaptation building. This issue is particularly important in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which is recognized as one of the most water scarce...
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Sathishkumar Samiappan, Lee Hathcock, Gray Turnage, Cary McCraine, Jonathan Pitchford and Robert Moorhead
Wildfires can be beneficial for native vegetation. However, wildfires can impact property values, human safety, and ecosystem function. Resource managers require safe, easy to use, timely, and cost-effective methods for quantifying wildfire damage and re...
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Natalia Donoso, Sacha Gobeyn, Gonzalo Villa-Cox, Pieter Boets, Erik Meers and Peter L. M. Goethals
Polder watercourses within agricultural areas are affected by high chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biological oxygen demand (BOD5) concentrations, due to intensive farming activities and runoff. Practical cases have shown that constructed wetlands (CWs)...
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Wang Tian, Huayong Zhang, Lei Zhao, Yuanwu Xiong and Hai Huang
The stability of phytoplankton biomass is important in maintaining the health of an aquatic ecosystem. In this study, the main environmental factors and phytoplankton biomass were investigated monthly from May 2011 to April 2013 in a eutrophic lake. The ...
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Wang Tian, Huayong Zhang, Lei Zhao, Yuanwu Xiong, Hai Huang
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The stability of phytoplankton biomass is important in maintaining the health of an aquatic ecosystem. In this study, the main environmental factors and phytoplankton biomass were investigated monthly from May 2011 to April 2013 in a eutrophic lake. The ...
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