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Marisia P. Esposito Mauricio L. Ferreira Silvia M.R. Sant'Anna Marisa Domingos Silvia R. Souza 《Atmospheric environment (Oxford, England : 1994)》2009,43(3):619-623
Previous studies have reported that the extent of leaf injury in Nicotiana tabacum “Bel-W3” exposed to environmental conditions in the city of São Paulo is influenced by weather conditions. This influence may occur by means of antioxidant responses. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate whether daily antioxidant responses to environmental variations interfere on the progression of leaf injury on plants of this cultivar during their exposure in a state park of São Paulo and to determine a linear combination of variables, among antioxidants and environmental factors, which mostly explain this visible response. Plants were exposed at the mentioned site for 14 days in four different experiments. During each experiment, three plants were daily sampled to determine the accumulated percentage of leaf area affected by necrosis and antioxidant responses (concentrations of total ascorbic acid (AA) and activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and peroxidases (POD)). Ozone concentrations and weather conditions were also daily measured. Pearson correlations and multivariate analyses assessed the relationship between biological and environmental variables. Leaf injury appeared between the 3rd and 6th days of exposure and increased over the exposure periods. The daily concentrations of AA tended to decrease with time of exposure in all experiments, but the activity of SOD and POD oscillated during plant exposure. Positive correlations were observed between AA or SOD and O3 concentrations, as well as negative correlations between AA and air temperature. The increasing percentage of leaf necrosis across the whole period was explained by decreasing levels of AA 2 days before injury estimation and by higher O3 concentrations 5 days before (R2 = 0.36; p < 0.001). The use of N. tabacum Bel-W3 as a bioindicator can be restricted by leaf antioxidant responses to both atmospheric contamination and weather conditions. 相似文献
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A case study of molinate application in a Portuguese rice field: herbicide dissipation and proposal of a clean-up methodology 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This study was designed to monitor molinate losses in surface and underground waters during Ordram application in a rice field situated in central Portugal. Water samples were collected from different sites, before, during and about one month and a half after Ordram application. Molinate quantification was based on a solid-phase microextraction (SPME) method followed by gas chromatography with flame photometric detector (GC-FPD) analysis, and led to the conclusion that the herbicide was dissipated in the environment, reaching levels as high as 3.9 microgl(-1) in underground water and 15.8 microgl(-1) in the river receiving tail waters. The feasibility of the application of treatment methodologies based on adsorption or biodegradation as processes to remove molinate from real-world waters was assessed. These methods seem suitable to reduce molinate concentrations to values in the range of the legally recommended limits (<0.5 microgl(-1)). 相似文献
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Paula Méndez-Fernandez Graham J. Pierce Paco Bustamante Tiphaine Chouvelon Marisa Ferreira Angel F. González Alfredo López Fiona L. Read M. Begoña Santos Jérôme Spitz José V. Vingada Florence Caurant 《Marine Biology》2013,160(11):2825-2840
This study aims to assess niche segregation among the five main toothed whales that frequent the NW Iberian Peninsula waters: the common dolphin, the harbour porpoise, the bottlenose dolphin, the striped dolphin and the long-finned pilot whale. We used cadmium (Cd) and stable isotope ratios (δ13C and δ15N) as ecological tracers to assess degree of segregation in diet/trophic level and in foraging habitat, over various time-scales. δ13C values highlighted different habitats, while Cd concentrations highlighted feeding differences between oceanic and neritic species. Moreover, δ15N values suggest different trophic levels of prey targeted within oceanic and neritic species. Hence, results revealed long-term ecological segregation among five toothed whales that coexist in the NWIP and demonstrated the ability of ecological tracers to discriminate ecological niches among closely related species. 相似文献
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Increasingly government agencies are seeking to quantify the outcomes of proposed policy options in terms of ecosystem service
benefits, yet conflicting definitions and ad hoc approaches to measuring ecosystem services have created confusion regarding
how to rigorously link ecological change to changes in human well-being. Here, we describe a step-by-step framework for producing
ecological models and metrics that can effectively serve an economic-benefits assessment of a proposed change in policy or
management. A focus of the framework is developing comparable units of ecosystem goods and services to support decision-making,
even if outcomes cannot be monetized. Because the challenges to translating ecological changes to outcomes appropriate for
economic analyses are many, we discuss examples that demonstrate practical methods and approaches to overcoming data limitations.
The numerous difficult decisions that government agencies must make to fairly use and allocate natural resources provides
ample opportunity for interdisciplinary teams of natural and social scientists to improve methods for quantifying changes
in ecosystem services and their effects on human well-being. This framework is offered with the intent of promoting the success
of such teams as they support managers in evaluating the equivalency of ecosystem service offsets and trades, establishing
restoration and preservation priorities, and more generally, in developing environmental policy that effectively balances
multiple perspectives. 相似文献
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Sadauskas-Henrique H Sakuragui MM Paulino MG Fernandes MN 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2011,181(1-4):29-42
The condition factor and blood variables, including erythrocyte lipid peroxidation (LPO) and the activity of antioxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and glutathione peroxidase (GPx), in two ecologically distinct fish species (Astyanax fasciatus and Pimelodus maculatus) were evaluated at five sites in the Furnas Hydroelectric Power Station reservoir (Brazil) to assess water quality. Aldrin/dieldrin, endosulfan, heptachlor epoxide, and metolachlor were detected at different concentrations in four of the sites. Condition factor was not directly affected by such contaminants. A negative correlation between hematocrit and heptachlor was detected in P. maculatus. Positive correlations between red blood cells and heptachlor as well as an interactive effect of metolachlor and aldrin/dieldrin were detected in A. fasciatus. The erythrocytes of both species collected from the contaminated sites showed high levels of LPO, an increase in SOD and GPx activities and a decrease in CAT activity. Although the leukocyte number and the differential percentage of leukocytes varied among the sites, the hematological variables, the LPO levels, and the antioxidant enzyme activities could be used to assess water quality, regardless of the differences in the responses of the fish species. 相似文献
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Cynthia R. A. Mahl Thiago B. Taketa Rogério A. Bataglioli Eduardo José de Arruda Marisa M. Beppu 《Journal of Polymers and the Environment》2018,26(12):4338-4349
Chitosan (Chi) beads were conjugated with three different amino acids [namely, glutamic acid (GLU), methionine (MET), and taurine (TAU)] aiming to increase the divalent copper ions uptake in aqueous media. Scanning Electron Microscopy evidenced the development of a large porous structure after amino acid functionalization, associated with the increase in a number of amino groups in the polymer backbone. X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectra analyses were also employed to assess the conjugation of these three different amino acids in chitosan backbone. Adsorption experiments were conducted in a batch process, at 298 K, and kinetic data indicated a slightly better fitting for the pseudo-first-order model when compared to pseudo-second order. Intraparticle diffusion model suggested a three-step mechanism for Cu(II) adsorption kinetics, limited by the third step, the intraparticle diffusion. The isotherm data fitting to the traditional Langmuir and Freundlich models indicated a better fit for the former case. The amino acid conjugation resulted in the increase of the maximum adsorption capacity for Cu(II) from 1.30 mmol g?1 prior to amino acid conjugation to values as high as 2.31 mmol g?1, 2.40 mmol g?1 and 2.68 mmol g?1 for Chi–TAU, Chi–GLU, and Chi–MET, respectively. These results are attributed to the introduction of additional amino groups and new carboxylate and amino acid residues into the chitosan backbone, which might also be explored for amino acid demanding applications. 相似文献
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Mendoza A Garcia MR Vela P Lozano DF Allen D 《Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)》2005,55(12):1797-1808
An inventory of air pollutants emitted from forest and agricultural fires in Northeastern Mexico for the period of January to August of 2000 is presented. The emissions estimates were calculated using an emissions factor methodology. The inventory accounts for the emission of carbon monoxide (CO), methane, nonmethane hydrocarbons, ammonia, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter (PM). Particulate matter emissions include estimates for fine PM and coarse PM. A total of 2479 wildfires were identified in the domain for the period of interest, which represented approximately 810,000 acres burned and 621,130 short tons emitted (81% being CO). The main source of information used to locate and estimate the extent of the fires came from satellite imagery. A geographic information system was used to determine the type of vegetation burned by each fire. More than 54% of the total area burned during the period of study was land on the State of Tamaulipas. However, >58% of the estimated emissions came from the State of Coahuila. This was because of the mix of vegetation types burned in each state. With respect to the temporal distribution, 76.9% of the fires occurred during the months of April and May consuming almost 78% of the total area burned during the period of study. Analysis of wind forward trajectories of air masses passing through the burned areas and 850-mb wind reanalyses indicate possible transboundary transport of the emissions from Mexico to the United States during the occurrence of the major wildfires identified. 相似文献
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Almeida CM Mucha AP Vasconcelos MT 《Environmental science and pollution research international》2005,12(5):271-277
Goal, Scope and Background The presence or absence of vegetation can condition sediment characteristics. The main aim of this work was to investigate
the influence of the sea rush Juncus maritimus on metal (Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn) availability to organisms living
on or in estuarine sediments, from Douro River (NW Portugal), by comparing the characteristics and chemical behaviour of rhizosediments
(collected within the plant assemblage) and those of sediment (collected around the plant). In order to evaluate whether and
how sediment characteristics condition the role of plants on metal availability, sandy and muddy sediments colonised by J.
maritimus were studied in parallel.
Methods Metal availability was estimated by enzymatic digestion with pepsin (ED), which may provide an estimate of metal availability
to organisms living at estuarine sediments. Nevertheless, since no consensus exists yet on the most suitable methodologies
to estimate metal bioavailability in sediments, two more conventional approaches, BCR sequential extraction (SE) and AVS/SEM
model, were also used, in parallel, and the information these approaches provided was compared with that provided by ED. Total-recoverable
metal contents were determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry after sediment digestion using a high-pressure microwave
system.
Results and Discussion Plants could concentrate metals around its roots and rhizomes. In addition, they were capable of oxidizing (release of oxygen
by the roots) the anaerobic medium surrounding their roots in muddy sediment (reducing AVS). As sulphide oxidation renders
metals (Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn) into more soluble forms, according to the AVS/SEM model, metals from muddy sites would be more
available in rhizosediment than in sediment. The SE approach led to a similar conclusion. Nevertheless, the results provided
by ED pointed at opposite conclusion, particularly for Cd and Zn, indicating less availability at rhizosediments than in the
surrounding sediment. ED results were interpreted as a consequence of an enrichment of the rhizosediment in organic ligands
exuded by the roots or liberated by dead plants. The effect of complexation of metals by organic compounds, which ED could
not decompose/dissolve, seemed to overcome that caused by sediment oxidation. In general, a comparison of the information
about metal availability by ED, SE, AVS/SEM, showed that it did not always match and in few cases it was even contradictory.
Conclusion and Outlook Therefore, a thorough evaluation of the metal availability in sediments requires a combination of different chemical approaches,
so as to take into consideration differences in ways of organism exposure (interstitial water and/or ingestion of sediment
particles).
- * The basis of this peer-reviewed paper is a presentation at the 9th FECS Conference on 'Chemistry and Environment', 29 August
to 1 September 2004, Bordeaux, France. 相似文献
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Dias AP Dafré M Rinaldi MC Domingos M 《Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)》2011,159(2):458-465
This study intended to determine whether the redox state in plants of Nicotiana tabacum ‘Bel-W3’ fluctuates in response to the environmental factors in a sub-tropical area contaminated by ozone (São Paulo, SE - Brazil) and which environmental factors are related to this fluctuation, discussing their biomonitoring efficiency. We comparatively evaluated the indicators of redox state (ascorbic acid, glutathione, superoxide dismutase, ascorbate peroxidase, and glutathione reductase) and leaf injury in 17 field experiments performed in 2008. The redox state was explained by the combined effects of chronic levels of O3 and meteorological variables 4-6 days prior to the plant sampling. Moderate leaf injury was observed in most cases. The redox state of tobacco decreases few days after their placement in the sub-tropical environment, causing them to become susceptible to oxidative stress imposed by chronic doses of O3. Its bioindicator efficiency would not be diminished in such levels of atmospheric contamination. 相似文献