ROADS TO POLLUTION: BRAZIL´S AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY AFFECTED BY TRUCK LEAKS

Area-Specification affected by Industrial-Mineral Pollution in Isfahan Province

Air pollution is a consequence of human activities, especially in the period after industrial revolution, which has many (direct and indirect) effects on the human and the environment around him. Among different kinds of pollutions, those related to industries and mines are much more dangerous. Therefore, it is necessary to identify these pollutions and specify them so as to reduce the harmful ...

Biodiversity, roads, & landscape fragmentation: Two Mediterranean cases

The most pervasive threats to biological diversity are directly or indirectly linked to the road networks. For this reason, over the last few decades, interest in the study of the ecological characteristics of the edges associated with roads has increased. This work aims to investigate the effect of roads as a humaninduced disturbance on the plant diversity in two managed Mediterranean forest s...

Mountain biodiversity in Brazil

(Mountain biodiversity in Brazil). The high species richness and diversity found in tropical montane habitats are often related to: 1) an effect of climatic and geological history on biotic evolution; 2) the various environmental impacts on species adaptation mechanisms; and 3) the continuous dispersal of fauna and flora in time. However, little is known about how these factors shaped species r...

Hydrological processes and pathways affected by forest roads: what do we still need to learn?

*Correspondence to: Charles H. Luce, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise Aquatic Sciences Laboratory, 316 E. Myrtle, Boise, ID 83702, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Forest roads are an important environmental issue. While many scientists interested in hydrology recognize climate-altering processes as an important global issue, there are problems that are similar in scope and magnitude because ...

Global changes, cyanobacterial blooms and threats to aquatic biodiversity.