partially carried out within the state assignment of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (124012200182-1)。
The distribution of exposure to Hg in amphibians remains unknown on most continents.The Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion is a region of high biodiversity, the nine species of amphibia living on its territo...
This work was supported by a research grant from Alberta Innovates,a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(NSERC)Senior Industrial Research Chair(IRC)in Oil Sands Tailings Water Treatment through the support of Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance(COSIA),Syncrude Canada Ltd.,Suncor Energy Inc.,Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.,Imperial Oil Resources,Teck Resources Limited,EPCOR Water Services,Alberta Innovates,and Alberta Environment and Parks.We also acknowledge an NSERC Collaborative Research and Development(CRD)grant for financial support and the Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative(HAI)through the Alberta Environment and Parks’ecoTrust Programfor analytical support;DML was supported in part by an NSERC research grant RGPIN 06395 and a University of Alberta Faculty of Science research transition fund.The authorswould like to acknowledge graduate student scholarships from the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Alberta(to NASH and YYC).Lastly,the authors would also like to thank the University of Alberta Flow Cytometry Facility(Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry)and the University of Alberta Molecular Biology Service Unit(Faculty of Science)for their use of equipment.
In this study,we provide evidence that oil sands process-affected waters(OSPW)contain factors that activate the antimicrobial and proinflammatory responses of immune cells.Specifically,using the murine macrophage RAW ...
supported by the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(No.2019B110205002);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS from the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.2018058);the National Major Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control and Treatment(No.2017ZX07107-004).
A typical anthropogenically disturbed urban river polluted by a combination of conventional pollutants(nitrogen and phosphorus pollution)and heavy metals was investigated along a 238 km stretch.Changes in the bacteria...
supported by the National Science Foundation(NSF)(No.EAR-2035135)。
Coral reefs are in terminal decline.For conservation to be effective,naturally depauperate reefs must be distinguished from those recently degraded by humans.Traditional reef monitoring is time consuming and lacks the...
carried out within the framework and through funding provided by the Leibniz Graduate School SUTAS(Sustainable Use of Tropical Aquatic Systems)to HW;the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research(ZMT)based in Bremen,Germany;Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL。
Coastal marine management is vital for socio-ecological sustainability of developing,tropical ecosystems,which calls for diverse tools to monitor and assess water quality.The carbonatedominated habitats off Zanzibar w...
Tropical regions are biodiversity hotspots and are well-suited to explore the potential influence of global climate change on forest ecosystems. Bryophytes have essential ecological functions in tropical forest ecosys...
supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Science and Engineering Research Board (DST-SERB), New Delhi, India under an ECRA grant for researchers to NA (ECR/2017/001977)。
Protists are essential components of soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. They play a vital role in the microbial food web as consumers of bacteria, fungi, and other small eukaryotes and are also involved in m...
Repeatedly deposition of anthropogenic chemicals such as chlorpyrifos led to the risk of its associated unwanted toxicity to the non-targeted organisms. The present project was designed to assess the toxicity of chlor...
PCDD/Fs contamination of free-range chicken eggs and soils from private Vietnam households was studied.The possibility of using free-range eggs as bio-indicators of dioxin contamination was considered as the soil-chic...
This study represents, detailly, the validated method for the extraction and quantification of widespread phthalic acid esters (PAEs) bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP) and di-n-octyl phtha...