Pub Date : 2020-01-17DOI: 10.26480/ecr.01.2020.40.47
B. Samuel, Oyedotun Temitope D. Timothy, O. Olayinka, O. Olusegun, B. Emmanuel
Information on the major exposure biomarkers of people living around industrial areas in Africa are very limited. This study aims to analyse the level of hazardous metal (cadmium, lead, copper, and zinc) in two seasons’ soil samples of four industrial and one (1) control areas of Ogun State, Nigeria. Similarly, blood samples of the volunteers (n = 200) were analysed for the impacts of the metals on serum creatinine (SCr) and blood urea (BUN). The mean metal concentrations for soils samples exhibited significant differences with strong positive correlations (r = 0.995 and 1). Compared with regulatory limits for normal individual concerning BUN and SCr, the results of volunteers were all higher, with BUN at ~200% and SCr at ~82% more. The results presented in this study revealed that both the soil environment and the body health system of the residents are being affected by the rapid industrialization, hence heavily burdened.
{"title":"EVALUATION OF THE IMPACTS OF METALS ON SOIL SAMPLES, SERUM CREATININE AND BLOOD UREA NITROGEN OF RESIDENTS IN SELECTED INDUSTRIAL COMMUNITIES IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY","authors":"B. Samuel, Oyedotun Temitope D. Timothy, O. Olayinka, O. Olusegun, B. Emmanuel","doi":"10.26480/ecr.01.2020.40.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26480/ecr.01.2020.40.47","url":null,"abstract":"Information on the major exposure biomarkers of people living around industrial areas in Africa are very limited. This study aims to analyse the level of hazardous metal (cadmium, lead, copper, and zinc) in two seasons’ soil samples of four industrial and one (1) control areas of Ogun State, Nigeria. Similarly, blood samples of the volunteers (n = 200) were analysed for the impacts of the metals on serum creatinine (SCr) and blood urea (BUN). The mean metal concentrations for soils samples exhibited significant differences with strong positive correlations (r = 0.995 and 1). Compared with regulatory limits for normal individual concerning BUN and SCr, the results of volunteers were all higher, with BUN at ~200% and SCr at ~82% more. The results presented in this study revealed that both the soil environment and the body health system of the residents are being affected by the rapid industrialization, hence heavily burdened.","PeriodicalId":11882,"journal":{"name":"ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS REVIEWS","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79833336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-17DOI: 10.26480/ecr.01.2020.37.39
Aman Kumar Gupta, D. Yadav
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is a floating aquatic weed and native of Amazon River. Water hyacinth is one of the fastest growing plants they primarily reproduce from runners or stolons. Each plant of E. crassipes can produce thousands of seeds each year and these seeds can remain viable for more than 28 years. Water hyacinth caused water loss through evapotranspiration which is more significant than indigenous weeds. Water hyacinth caused many problems in canals, ponds, lakes, rivers likes they are blocking of canals and causing floods, reduction of water quality, oxygen depletion, increased evapotranspiration rate, fish production problems, the beauty of ponds and effects on human health. Controlling methods of water hyacinth includes physical, chemical and biological but the biological method is effective and environment friendly. Neochetina bruchi, N. eichhorniae, and water hyacinth borer (Sameodes albiguttalis) are found effective biological control on water hyacinth. These weevils are feed on water hyacinth and reducing the size of water hyacinth, its vegetative propagation, and seed production. Semi-aquatic grasshopper Cornops aquaticum is also found effective control on water hyacinth.
{"title":"BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF WATER HYACINTH","authors":"Aman Kumar Gupta, D. Yadav","doi":"10.26480/ecr.01.2020.37.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26480/ecr.01.2020.37.39","url":null,"abstract":"Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is a floating aquatic weed and native of Amazon River. Water hyacinth is one of the fastest growing plants they primarily reproduce from runners or stolons. Each plant of E. crassipes can produce thousands of seeds each year and these seeds can remain viable for more than 28 years. Water hyacinth caused water loss through evapotranspiration which is more significant than indigenous weeds. Water hyacinth caused many problems in canals, ponds, lakes, rivers likes they are blocking of canals and causing floods, reduction of water quality, oxygen depletion, increased evapotranspiration rate, fish production problems, the beauty of ponds and effects on human health. Controlling methods of water hyacinth includes physical, chemical and biological but the biological method is effective and environment friendly. Neochetina bruchi, N. eichhorniae, and water hyacinth borer (Sameodes albiguttalis) are found effective biological control on water hyacinth. These weevils are feed on water hyacinth and reducing the size of water hyacinth, its vegetative propagation, and seed production. Semi-aquatic grasshopper Cornops aquaticum is also found effective control on water hyacinth.","PeriodicalId":11882,"journal":{"name":"ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS REVIEWS","volume":"54 84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80600510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-17DOI: 10.26480/ecr.01.2020.48.52
S. Bhandari, Dikshya Niraula, Kripa Adhikari
Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is an important cash crop which is cultivated in more than 80 countries worldwide producing worth of 121.30 million bales in MY 2019/2020. However, it is attacked by many insect pests that causes high economic loss. Vertcillium wilt (VW) and Fusarium wilt (FW),a soil borne fungus caused by Verticillium dahlia kleb and Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. vasinfectum, is one of the most destructive diseases in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) production deleteriously affecting the yield and quality in ,India and worldwide. The wilt is becoming serious problem for cotton growing farmer and key subject of research in cotton resistance genetics and pathology. This aim of this paper is to call for attention and concentrated action by describing potentially damage of the pest, morphology, symptoms, Epidemiology, behavior, entry pathways and control method. The key pest of cotton accounts for its production loss up to70% in the absence of compatible control measures. Its effective control strongly relies on integrated management strategies includes Bio control agents, Physical, cultural a virulent strains, resistant varieties are the best practices for pest management.
{"title":"FUSARIUM AND VERTICELLUM WILT IN COTTON: A REVIEW","authors":"S. Bhandari, Dikshya Niraula, Kripa Adhikari","doi":"10.26480/ecr.01.2020.48.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26480/ecr.01.2020.48.52","url":null,"abstract":"Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is an important cash crop which is cultivated in more than 80 countries worldwide producing worth of 121.30 million bales in MY 2019/2020. However, it is attacked by many insect pests that causes high economic loss. Vertcillium wilt (VW) and Fusarium wilt (FW),a soil borne fungus caused by Verticillium dahlia kleb and Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. vasinfectum, is one of the most destructive diseases in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) production deleteriously affecting the yield and quality in ,India and worldwide. The wilt is becoming serious problem for cotton growing farmer and key subject of research in cotton resistance genetics and pathology. This aim of this paper is to call for attention and concentrated action by describing potentially damage of the pest, morphology, symptoms, Epidemiology, behavior, entry pathways and control method. The key pest of cotton accounts for its production loss up to70% in the absence of compatible control measures. Its effective control strongly relies on integrated management strategies includes Bio control agents, Physical, cultural a virulent strains, resistant varieties are the best practices for pest management.","PeriodicalId":11882,"journal":{"name":"ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS REVIEWS","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90545964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-11-13DOI: 10.26480/ecr.02.2019.13.14
S. Rijal
{"title":"HIGHLIGHTS ON APPROPRIATE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AGAINST FALL ARMY WORM (SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA) IN THE CONTEXT OF NEPAL","authors":"S. Rijal","doi":"10.26480/ecr.02.2019.13.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26480/ecr.02.2019.13.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11882,"journal":{"name":"ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS REVIEWS","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73524895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-10-31DOI: 10.26480/ecr.02.2019.06.12
Mousami Poudel, Prabin Adhikari, Kanti Thapa
{"title":"BIOLOGY AND CONTROL METHODS OF THE ALIEN INVASIVE WEED MIKANIA MICRANTHA: A REVIEW","authors":"Mousami Poudel, Prabin Adhikari, Kanti Thapa","doi":"10.26480/ecr.02.2019.06.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26480/ecr.02.2019.06.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11882,"journal":{"name":"ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS REVIEWS","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89911413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-10-23DOI: 10.26480/ecr.02.2019.01.05
Iffah Nadiah Laili, A. Amid
Pollution becomes a severe issue in Malaysia due to the economic development and increased industrialisation activities, with the most recent case of chemical residues that polluted the Kim Kim River, at Pasir Gudang, Johor in March this year. This serious situation may cause by various contaminants such as pesticides or chemical fertiliser for water pollution, smoke and emission from automotive for air pollution and solid waste for land pollution. The application of pesticides and chemical fertilisers in agriculture industry lead to heavy metal contamination in herbs products, thus reduces health quality. The government authority involves in monitoring and preventing the incidences uses suitable method in detecting the heavy metal contaminant such as Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry (AAS), Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP), and Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA). Other than that, Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (FAAS), Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (EDXRF), and Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (ETAAS) were also used. Among the methods, ICPMS has been the most chosen and a convenience method to detect heavy metal contamination.
{"title":"A REVIEW ON THE IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF HEAVY METALS IN HERBS USING INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY (ICPMS)","authors":"Iffah Nadiah Laili, A. Amid","doi":"10.26480/ecr.02.2019.01.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26480/ecr.02.2019.01.05","url":null,"abstract":"Pollution becomes a severe issue in Malaysia due to the economic development and increased industrialisation \u0000activities, with the most recent case of chemical residues that polluted the Kim Kim River, at Pasir Gudang, Johor in \u0000March this year. This serious situation may cause by various contaminants such as pesticides or chemical fertiliser \u0000for water pollution, smoke and emission from automotive for air pollution and solid waste for land pollution. The \u0000application of pesticides and chemical fertilisers in agriculture industry lead to heavy metal contamination in herbs \u0000products, thus reduces health quality. The government authority involves in monitoring and preventing the \u0000incidences uses suitable method in detecting the heavy metal contaminant such as Atomic Absorption \u0000Spectrophotometry (AAS), Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP), and Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA). Other than \u0000that, Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (FAAS), Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (EDXRF), and \u0000Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (ETAAS) were also used. Among the methods, ICPMS has been the \u0000most chosen and a convenience method to detect heavy metal contamination.","PeriodicalId":11882,"journal":{"name":"ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS REVIEWS","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89930116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-10-16DOI: 10.26480/ecr.01.2019.19.22
F. Azmi, Nur Shuhada Muhamad Tajudin, R. Shahari, C. Amri
{"title":"EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT CHICKEN MANURE RATES OF ON EARLY GROWTH OF FIG (Ficus Carica)","authors":"F. Azmi, Nur Shuhada Muhamad Tajudin, R. Shahari, C. Amri","doi":"10.26480/ecr.01.2019.19.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26480/ecr.01.2019.19.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11882,"journal":{"name":"ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS REVIEWS","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83173332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-10-15DOI: 10.26480/ecr.01.2019.14.18
Rubina Altaf, Seemal Vehra Ejaz, Shamim Umer, S. Altaf
{"title":"IDENTIFICATION OF ALGAL FLORA AND EVALUATION OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL STATUS OF SEWAGE DRAIN IN SAMANABAD LAHORE PAKISTAN","authors":"Rubina Altaf, Seemal Vehra Ejaz, Shamim Umer, S. Altaf","doi":"10.26480/ecr.01.2019.14.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26480/ecr.01.2019.14.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11882,"journal":{"name":"ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS REVIEWS","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87343178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-10-11DOI: 10.26480/ecr.01.2019.11.13
Gohar Rehman, Q. Ain, M. Zaheer, L. Bao, J. Iqbal
{"title":"AN ANALYSIS OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW THROUGH A WATER RESERVOIR USING MATHEMATICAL APPROACH","authors":"Gohar Rehman, Q. Ain, M. Zaheer, L. Bao, J. Iqbal","doi":"10.26480/ecr.01.2019.11.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26480/ecr.01.2019.11.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11882,"journal":{"name":"ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS REVIEWS","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79545000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-10-10DOI: 10.26480/ecr.01.2019.06.10
S. Basheer, H. Rashid, A. Nasir, Rana Ali Nawaz
{"title":"SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY ANALYSIS OF PM2.5 CONCENTRATION IN LAHORE CITY","authors":"S. Basheer, H. Rashid, A. Nasir, Rana Ali Nawaz","doi":"10.26480/ecr.01.2019.06.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26480/ecr.01.2019.06.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11882,"journal":{"name":"ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS REVIEWS","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76154216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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