This paper aims at assessing the concentrations of heavy metals and the isotopic composition of lead 210Pb in different fractions of sediment produced in the watershed that makes up the Mãe d'água dam and thus characterizing the distribution of metals along the sedimentary column and inferencing in the urbanization of the same process. Sample collection was carried out in June 2014; eight sedim...

A multi-proxy paleolimnological analysis of a sediment core sequence from Lake Malaya Chabyda in Central Yakutia (Eastern Siberia, Russia) was conducted to investigate changes lake processes, including development, and organic carbon accumulation, primary productivity, within the context Late Pleistocene Holocene climate change. Age-depth modeling with 14 C indicates that maximum age is ∼14 cal...

Benthic macroinvertebrates have many useful properties that make possible the use of these organisms as sentinel in biomonitoring programmes in freshwater. Combined with the characteristics of the water and sediment, benthic macroinvertebrates are potential indicators of environmental quality. Thus, the spatial occurrence of potentially toxic metals (Al, Zn, Cr, Co, Cu, Fe, Mn and Ni) in the wa...

This review article investigates a comprehensive description of the factors, methods, strategies, approaches and prerequisites influencing in vitro micropaopagation and the amount of their use across the world. The findings presented here are the results of the study of several hundred papers published all over the world. Tissue culture techniques are routinely used for micropropagation. Enhanc...

correct estimates of the risk of erosion at improve land management advice plays an important role. in this study, erosion risk zoning in the kan basin with area about 20571 ha in the northwest of tehran by using the experimental model mpsiac and geographic information system (gis) were investigated and by using the base maps and gis, layers of information were prepared. after collecting, prepa...

heavy metals, in particular mercury, are important for the public health due to their toxicity and endurance in the environment. in the present study, the distribution of mercury was surveyed along the coast of the caspian sea (mazandaran province). twelve stations were selected and from each station 5 samples were randomly collected followed by chemical analyses. an inverse weight-distance met...

Sedimentation is one of the most important problems in harbors that results in considerable economic costs. Harbor planforms affects the flow pattern in the harbor basin and consequently, plays an important role in sediment transport and sedimentation. In the present study, a two dimensional depth-averaged hydrodynamic and sediment transport model has been developed to investigate the effect of...

A reservoir is an integral component of a water resources system. Periodic evaluation of the sediment deposition pattern and assessment of available storage capacity of reservoirs is an important aspect of water resources management. The conventional techniques of quantification of sediment deposition in a reservoir, such as hydrographie surveys and the inflow-outflow methods, are cumbersome, c...