.............................................................................................viii CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW...............................................................1 1.0 Introduction...........................................................................................1 1.1 Dissolved organic carbon........................................................................

methane is one of the important greenhouse gases that contribute to a rise in global mean surface temperature. aquatic environments are postulated to contribute > 50% of the total global methane (ch4) flux to the atmosphere (de angelis and lilley, 1987). dissolved methane concentration in surface waters was measured from january to december 2008 at two selected sites upper reaches (ongc bridge)...

elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide and other green house gases have increased the earth temperature in recent century, which it affects all biochemistry cycles in soils. to examine the effect of atmospheric co2 concentration and temperature on n forms in soil solution in a calcareous soil, an experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with factorial arrangement in the laborator...

objective: returning crop residue to the soil exerts favorable effects on physical and chemical properties of soil. in fact, the plant residues can affect soil conditions such as ph and important role in soil fertility and cycling of elements in the soil may have. in addition to the role of the organic matter from decomposition of crop residue in increasing the concentration of micronutrients i...

abstract soil drying and rewetting (drw) cycles are considered as environmental stress that would affect the physical, chemical and biological properties of soil and nutrient cycles. the study of soil drying and rewetting effects on plant nutrition and soil fertility is very important and crucial specially their environmental effects. in this study, the effects of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 drying and re...

dissolved organic nitrogen (don) is an important constituent of dissolved organic matter (dom). it has a considerable effect on total dissolved soil nitrogen and it is very important as a nitrogen source of many aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. dissolved inorganic nitrogen, which is another form of total soil dissolved nitrogen, includes no3, no2 and nh4, which is very important for plant nu...

Citation: Fichot CG, Benner R, Kaiser K, Shen Y, Amon RMW, Ogawa H and Lu C-J (2016) Predicting Dissolved Lignin Phenol Concentrations in the Coastal Ocean from Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) Absorption Coefficients. Front. Mar. Sci. 3:7. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00007 Predicting Dissolved Lignin Phenol Concentrations in the Coastal Ocean from Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter ...

dissolved organic nitrogen (don) can react with disinfectants to produce numerous disinfectionbyproducts (dbps), particularly nitrogen-containing dbps (n-dbps), and produce serious adverse effectson public health. widely used biological processes in drinking water treatment can increase don in effluents,and enhance these ill effects. this study investigated don in a full-scale two-stage ozonati...

To assess the effect of organic matter on the transport of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in a geochemically heterogeneous saturated porous medium, we measured the breakthrough and collision efficiencies of oocysts as a function of dissolved organic matter concentration in a flow-through column containing ferric oxyhydroxide-coated sand. We characterized the surface properties of the oocysts an...