Search Results - "Abrantes, Nelson"
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Phosphogypsum as a soil fertilizer: Ecotoxicity of amended soil and elutriates to bacteria, invertebrates, algae and plants
Published in Journal of hazardous materials (30-08-2015)“…•Assessment of the impact of Tunisian phosphogypsum on soil biota was performed.•A battery of terrestrial and aquatic species was tested.•E. andrei and D…”
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Short-term impacts of wildfires on the diversity and activity patterns of medium-sized mammals in Mediterranean coastal pine forests
Published in Forest ecology and management (15-06-2024)“…Mammals are among the vertebrate groups with the least wildfire-related information worldwide mostly due to difficulties related to the complexity of mammal…”
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Immediate Impacts of Wildfires on Ground-dwelling macroinvertebrate Communities under Stones in Mediterranean Oak Forests
Published in Environmental management (New York) (01-10-2024)“…Wildfires are considered a major disturbance to forest ecosystems in the Mediterranean countries of Southern Europe. Although ground-dwelling…”
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Impacts of wildfires in aquatic organisms: biomarker responses and erythrocyte nuclear abnormalities in Gambusia holbrooki exposed in situ
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international (01-10-2021)“…Wildfires are an environmental concern due to the loss of forest area and biodiversity, but also because their role as drivers of freshwater systems…”
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Interplay between fungicides and parasites: Tebuconazole, but not copper, suppresses infection in a Daphnia-Metschnikowia experimental model
Published in PloS one (23-02-2017)“…Natural populations are commonly exposed to complex stress scenarios, including anthropogenic contamination and their biological enemies (e.g., parasites). The…”
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Assessment of the Impact of Distinct Vineyard Management Practices on Soil Physico-Chemical Properties
Published in Air, soil and water research (01-06-2020)“…Vines are one of the most ancient crops, with great relevance worldwide but especially in wine-growing areas in Southern Europe. In the Bairrada wine region of…”
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Bacterioplankton Community Diversity of a Portuguese Aquifer System (Maciço Calcário Estremenho)
Published in Water (Basel) (01-06-2024)“…Climate change may increase the vulnerability of aquifers to contamination through extreme precipitation and extended drought periods. Therefore, the…”
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Long‐Term Impacts of Post‐Fire Mulching on Ground‐Dwelling Arthropod Communities in a Eucalypt Plantation
Published in Land degradation & development (01-04-2017)“…In the past decades, Portugal like several other Mediterranean countries has been affected by frequent wildfires. This has led to various field tests of…”
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effect of environmental parameters and cyanobacterial blooms on phytoplankton dynamics of a Portuguese temperate Lake
Published in Hydrobiologia (01-09-2006)“…The increasing occurrence of cyanobacterial blooms in freshwaters is of great concern due to the ability of many cyanobacteria to produce cyanotoxins. In the…”
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Forest fires as drivers of contamination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
Published in Current opinion in environmental science & health (01-12-2021)“…Forest fires are a well-known source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), playing an important role on their formation and redistribution across the…”
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Biochemical and functional responses of stream invertebrate shredders to post-wildfire contamination
Published in Environmental pollution (1987) (01-12-2020)“…Forests in Mediterranean Europe including Portugal are highly susceptible to wildfires. Freshwaters are often exposed to post-wildfire contamination that…”
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Occurrence and distribution of pesticides and transformation products in ambient air in two European agricultural areas
Published in The Science of the total environment (25-08-2024)“…Pesticides present a significant risk for both humans and the environment. However, quantitative data for a broad range of airborne pesticides in agricultural…”
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Major and trace elements in soils and ashes of eucalypt and pine forest plantations in Portugal following a wildfire
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-12-2016)“…Wildfires can play an important role in the environmental distribution of major and trace elements, including through their mobilization by fire-induced runoff…”
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Effects of aqueous extracts of wildfire ashes on tadpoles of Pelophylax perezi: Influence of plant coverage
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-01-2023)“…Wildfires have been pointed out as an important source of diffuse contamination to aquatic ecosystems, namely through the input of toxic compounds such as…”
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Wildfire impacts on freshwater detrital food webs depend on runoff load, exposure time and burnt forest type
Published in The Science of the total environment (20-11-2019)“…In the last decades, land-use changes have made Mediterranean forests highly susceptible to wildfires, which can cause several impacts not only on burnt areas,…”
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A review on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons distribution in freshwater ecosystems and their toxicity to benthic fauna
Published in The Science of the total environment (10-05-2022)“…Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a group of organic compounds, found ubiquitously in all environmental compartments. PAHs are considered hazardous…”
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Estimating cultural benefits from surface water status improvements in freshwater wetland ecosystems
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-03-2016)“…Freshwater wetlands provide crucial ecosystem services, though are subject to anthropogenic/natural stressors that provoke negative impacts on these…”
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Effects of wildfire on mercury mobilisation in eucalypt and pine forests
Published in Catena (Giessen) (01-08-2015)“…Wildfires and subsequent rainfall play an important role in the redistribution of major, minor and trace chemical elements, which could be mobilised from burnt…”
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Ashes in Freshwater Ecosystems: A Systematic Review of their Impacts on Fish
Published in Water, air, and soil pollution (01-08-2024)“…Ash runoff into freshwater systems from fire events, coal combustion, and volcanic activities threatens to biodiversity conservation, given its toxicity to…”
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Effects of post-fire contamination in sediment-dwelling species of riverine systems
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-06-2021)“…Wildfires are an important environmental problem in forested watersheds and can significantly alter water quality. Besides the reported ecotoxicological…”
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