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Lebohang E. Koloti, Rosina Nkuna and Tonderayi S. Matambo
This study provides a theoretical baseline on the application of chemical and microbiological indicators as rapid system performance monitoring tools that will allow for timely corrective measures to maintain and improve the bioremediation performance of...
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Lijun Li, He Li, Lihong Tong and Yizhong Lv
It is desirable to recycle sewage sludge as fertilizer for agricultural fields. The application of sludge to agricultural soils is a measure that replaces chemical fertilizers and plays an important role in improving soil?s physicochemical and biological...
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Hanaa Tharwat Mohamed Ibrahim, Maxwell Maimela Modiba, Igor Dekemati, Györgyi Gelybó, Márta Birkás and Barbara Simon
Long-term cultivation experiments are gaining more attention due to the possibility of following the changes in soil parameters (e.g., soil organic carbon (SOC), stock and soil health indicators, etc.). Our objective was to assess the status of soil in a...
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Héctor Iván Bedolla-Rivera, María de la Luz Xochilt Negrete-Rodríguez, Francisco Paúl Gámez-Vázquez, Dioselina Álvarez-Bernal and Eloy Conde-Barajas
As the global population grows, the demand for food increases and puts a strain on food production systems and agricultural productivity, causing soil degradation. Soil quality indexes (SQIs) have been developed to maintain and improve soil quality. Howe...
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Agnieszka Klimkowicz-Pawlas, Bozena Smreczak and Barbara Maliszewska-Kordybach
Agricultural land is often located close to highly urbanised/industrialised areas and is subject to continuous anthropogenic pressure associated with the emission of many pollutants, ultimately deposited in the soil. Most studies on ecological risk asses...
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Daniele Arduini, Giuseppe Portacci, Adriana Giangrande, Maria Immacolata Acquaviva, Jacopo Borghese, Claudio Calabrese, Santina Giandomenico, Elisa Quarta and Loredana Stabili
The cultivation of the Mediterranean mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819, has been tested in an innovative Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture system (IMTA) in the Mar Grande of Taranto, as part of the EU-funded Remedialife project. This farm...
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Niels F. W. Ligterink, Kristina A. Kipfer, Salome Gruchola, Nikita J. Boeren, Peter Keresztes Schmidt, Coenraad P. de Koning, Marek Tulej, Peter Wurz and Andreas Riedo
Recent and past observations of chemical and physical peculiarities in the atmosphere of Venus have renewed speculations about the existence of life in its clouds. To find signs of Venusian life, a dedicated astrobiological space exploration mission is r...
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Robert E. Weber, Janusz J. Petkowski and Monika U. Weber
Evidence of chemical disequilibria and other anomalous observations in the Venusian atmosphere motivate the search for life within the planet?s temperate clouds. To find signs of a Venusian aerial biosphere, a dedicated astrobiological space mission is r...
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Kai Ziervogel, Manoj Kamalanathan and Antonietta Quigg
Biological oil weathering facilitated by specialized heterotrophic microbial communities plays a key role in the fate of petroleum hydrocarbon in the ocean. The most common methods of assessing oil biodegradation involve (i) measuring changes in the comp...
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Min-Suk Kim, Hyun-Gi Min and Jeong-Gyu Kim
Indiscriminate overuse of liquid fertilizer and arsenic (As) contaminated soil by abandoned mines is one of the important environmental issues in Korea. This study was carried out to solve these two problems. Amendments (limestone, red mud and acid mine ...
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