The escalating global concern over air pollution requires rigorous investigations. This study assesses air quality near residential areas affected by petroleum-related activities in Ubeji Community, utilizing Aeroqual...
The inventory of benthic macroinvertebrate species was carried out in some streams of the Mefou catchment area, from August 2021 to August 2022, in order to determine the biological groups that make up the population ...
Sewage water in agriculture threatens human health and soil ecosystems through metal pollution.Nematodes show promise as bioindicators of soil health due to their abundance and position in soil food webs.Metal-pollute...
This research was supported by the Programa de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento of Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais(CEMIG)P&D Aneel-Cemig GT-599 and MSL received a post-doc scholarship from this Project,and from CAPES(PDPG-AMAZONIA-LEGAL Project 88887.510266/2020–00);Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnologico(CNPq;research productivity grants 304060/2020-8 to MC and 316489/2021-2 to JCS),FAPEMIG research grant to MC(PPM 00104-18);Coordenaçao de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior(CAPES)–Finance Code 001.
In areas highly affected by anthropogenic disturbances,artificial(human-made)freshwater ecosystems can provide habitat for maintaining and conserving regional freshwater biodiversity.We assessed how the physical habit...
Rivers are important for aquatic biodiversity. Anthropogenic activities degrade rivers and decrease their capacity to offer ecosystem services. This study used macroinvertebrates to assess the impact of anthropogenic ...
Supported by the Open Project of the Key Laboratory of Fish Conservation and Utilization in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River of Sichuan Province(No.NJSYKF-002);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41961144013,41706191);the Scientific Research Fund of the Second Institute of Oceanography,MNR(No.JT1803);the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(No.LY20D060004);the Scientific Research Project of Education Department of Sichuan Province(No.18ZA0283)。
Copepoda are one of the most significant animal groups present in aquatic ecosystems.Ecologists,evolutionary biologists,and biotechnologists continue to test new methods to study the application of Copepoda as model o...
Background:There is a long-term trend towards the abandonment of agro-pastoral activities in the mountain areas of Europe:the following encroachment process of semi-natural grasslands by shrubs is one of the main seve...
To the CNPq,Fapemig and Capes by research fellowships for the authors and to the Companhia Brasileira de Alumínio for provided infrastructure and financial support for the project.
The objective of this study was to compare the soil seed bank in an area under natural regeneration(F1)and another reforested through seedling planting(F2),seven years after bauxite mining,in Southeast,Brazil.In each ...
Indigenous grasses have been effectively used to rehabilitate degraded African drylands. Despite their success, studies examining their effects on soil bioindicators such as microbial biomass carbon(C) and enzyme acti...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of Zn nutritional status on the content of pigments, nonstructural carbohydrates, foliage proteins and amino acids of the pecan tree, as possible bioindicators of Zn...