Rates of surface-air elemental mercury (Hg(0)) fluxes in the literature were synthesized for the Great Lakes Basin (GLB). For the majority of surfaces, fluxes were net positive (evasion). Digital land-cover data were combined with representative evasion rates and used to estimate annual Hg(0) evasion for the GLB (7.7 Mg/yr). This value is less than our estimate of total Hg deposition to the are...

The yearly nutrient supply from land and atmosphere to the study area in SW Kattegat is 10 900 tons of N and 365 tons of P. This is only few percent of the supply from adjacent marine areas, as the yearly transport through the study area is 218 000 tons of N and 18 250 tons of P. Yearly net deposition makes up 1340 tons of N (on average 2.5 g m yr) and 477 ton of P (on average 0.9 g m yr). Shal...

The effect of evaporation rate on structural, morphological and optical properties of electron beam evaporated CdS thin films have been investigated. CdS thin film deposited by electron beam evaporation method in 12nm/min and 60nm/min evaporation rates on glass substrates. X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy were used to character...

High performance anion-exchange chromatography with pulse amperometric detector (HPAEC-PAD) is a reliable method to systematically determine the sugar contents in pulp and paper waste streams, including bleaching and extraction liquors. We used the same method to determine the sugar content of industrially produced pre-hydrolysis liquor (PHL) from a kraft-based dissolving pulp production proces...

*Thomas J. Trout, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Water Management Research Laboratory, 9611 S. Riverbend Ave. Parlier, CA 93658. *Corresponding author: [email protected] ABSTRACT Sediment data were collected in southern Idaho irrigation furrows. Irrigation furrows allow detailed study of sediment transport relationships because of gradually decreasing flow rates in long, uniform, ...

effects of the last irrigation time on quantitative and qualitative traits were studied for two sugar beet cultivars with intermediate and long growth periods. this research was conducted in the field of agricultural and natural resources research center of khorasan at mashhadin 1381. six treatments of withholding irrigation were applied on the cultivars using a spilit plot design within a rand...

Terrestrial vegetation currently absorbs approximately a third of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, mitigating the rise of atmospheric CO2. However, terrestrial net primary production is highly sensitive to atmospheric CO2 levels and associated climatic changes. In C3 plants, which dominate terrestrial vegetation, net photosynthesis depends on the ratio between photorespiration and gross photosynthe...

The use of solid dairy manure for sugarbeet production is problematic because beet yield and quality are sensitive to deficiencies or excesses in soil N, and soil N availability from manure varies substantially depending on the year of application. Experimental treatments included combinations of two manure rates (0.33 and 0.97 Mg total N ha−1) and three application times, and nonmanure treatme...

A comparison was made between the time courses of restoration of pyruvate dehydrogenase activities, fructose 2,6-bisphosphate concentrations and lipogenic rates, together with net hepatic glucose flux and glycogen synthesis/deposition in livers of 48 h-starved rats provided with laboratory chow ad libitum for up to 24 h. Increased glycogenesis, lipogenesis and net glucose uptake were observed a...