Urban soils are the most vulnerable component of current terrestrial ecosystem. Due to anthropogenic influence, various pollutants can accumulate in and have a negative effect on health citizens. As result degradation permafrost landscapes, disappearance number natural ecosystems, as well urban areas, is possible. In course development thermokarst processes, problems arise environment with dest...

Global development of transportation dependent on internal combustion engines, involves major increases in the consumption fossil fuels obtained by extracting crude oil from depths means wells and refining it. In this context, protection environment groundwater quality is an increasingly difficult objective to maintain, requiring modern methods address possible negative effects environment. The...

Summary Lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) are heavy metals considered possible contaminants of water, soil air (especially when occurring as a consequence human activities in agriculture or industry), can be found the liver kidneys animals, thus serving indicators pollution. Vojvodina is northern province Republic Serbia which boasts very intensive agricultural production, especially crop production. ...

The use of habitat distribution models (HDMs) has become common in benthic mapping for combining limited seabed observations with full-coverage environmental data to produce classified maps showing predicted an entire study area. However, relatively few HDMs include oceanographic predictors, or present spatial validity uncertainty analyses support the predictions. Without reference studies it c...

A novel plasmid named pGdh442 had previously been isolated from a plant Lactococcus lactis strain. This plasmid encodes two interesting properties with applications in the dairy industry: a glutamate dehydrogenase activity that stimulates amino acid conversion to aroma compounds, and cadmium/zinc resistance that can be used as a selectable marker. Moreover, this plasmid can be transferred natur...