1. Assessment of land use/land cover dynamics of Tso Moriri Lake, a Ramsar site in India

   • Sharad Kumar Gupta
   • Dericks Praise Shukla

   OriginalPaper 30 November 2016 Article: 700

   

2. Monitoring and assessment of soil erosion at micro-scale and macro-scale in forests affected by fire damage in northern Iran

   • Ali Akbarzadeh
   • Shoja Ghorbani-Dashtaki
   • Ruhollah Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi

   OriginalPaper 29 November 2016 Article: 699

   

3. Soil contamination assessment for Pb, Zn and Cd in a slag disposal area using the integration of geochemical and microbiological data

   • Mariana Consiglio Kasemodel
   • Jacqueline Zanin Lima
   • Valéria Guimarães Silvestre Rodrigues

   OriginalPaper 28 November 2016 Article: 698

   

4. Use of ultra-high spatial resolution aerial imagery in the estimation of chaparral wildfire fuel loads

   • Ian T. Schmidt
   • John F. O’Leary
   • Phillip J. Riggan

   OriginalPaper 28 November 2016 Article: 697

   

5. Effect of irrigation on soil health: a case study of the Ikere irrigation project in Oyo State, southwest Nigeria

   • M.A. Adejumobi
   • G.O. Awe
   • T.S. Kareem

   OriginalPaper 28 November 2016 Article: 696

   

6. Monitoring and distribution patterns of pesticide residues in soil from cotton/wheat fields of Pakistan

   • Nazia Rafique
   • Saadia R. Tariq
   • Dildar Ahmed

   OriginalPaper 26 November 2016 Article: 695

   

7. Evaluation of herbicides action on plant bioindicators by genetic biomarkers: a review

   • Cleiton Pereira de Souza
   • Thays de Andrade Guedes
   • Carmem Silvia Fontanetti

   OriginalPaper 25 November 2016 Article: 694

8. An overview on common aspects influencing the dissipation pattern of pesticides: a review

   • Waziha Farha
   • A. M. Abd El-Aty
   • Jae-Han Shim

   OriginalPaper 25 November 2016 Article: 693

   

9. Export of non-point source suspended sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus from sloping highland agricultural fields in the East Asian monsoon region

   • Arif Reza
   • Jaesung Eum
   • Bomchul Kim

   OriginalPaper 25 November 2016 Article: 692

   

10. Assessment of land use and land cover change using spatiotemporal analysis of landscape: case study in south of Tehran

    • Abutaleb Sabr
    • Mazaher Moeinaddini
    • Benjamin Guinot

    OriginalPaper 25 November 2016 Article: 691

    

11. Assessment of impacts of land use changes on surface water using L-THIA model (case study: Zayandehrud river basin)

    • M. Mirzaei
    • E. Solgi
    • A. Salmanmahiny

    OriginalPaper 24 November 2016 Article: 690

    

12. Phytoplankton dynamics of a subtropical reservoir controlled by the complex interplay among hydrological, abiotic, and biotic variables

    • Yi-Ming Kuo
    • Jiunn-Tzong Wu

    OriginalPaper 24 November 2016 Article: 689

    

13. The white mullet (Mugil curema) as biological indicator to assess environmental stress in tropical coastal lagoons

    • Alejandra García-Gasca
    • Julián Ríos-Sicairos
    • Miguel Betancourt-Lozano

    OriginalPaper 24 November 2016 Article: 688

    

14. Plant phenological observations in rural and industrial central Italy areas

    • Fabio Orlandi
    • L. Ruga
    • M. Fornaciari

    OriginalPaper 23 November 2016 Article: 687

    

15. Investigation of antibiotics in health care wastewater in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    • Thi-Dieu-Hien Vo
    • Xuan-Thanh Bui
    • Thanh-Son Dao

    OriginalPaper 22 November 2016 Article: 686

    

16. Probability of foliar injury for Acer sp. based on foliar fluoride concentrations

    • Andrew M. McDonough
    • Murray J. Dixon
    • Kim A. Farias

    OriginalPaper 22 November 2016 Article: 685

    

17. Spatial and temporal assessment of surface water quality in the Arka River, Akkar, Lebanon

    • Claude Daou
    • Rony Nabbout
    • Amine Kassouf

    OriginalPaper 22 November 2016 Article: 684

    

18. Assessment of potential impacts of climate change on agricultural development in the Lower Benue River Basin

    • Roland Clement Abah
    • Brilliant Mareme Petja

    OriginalPaper 21 November 2016 Article: 683

    

19. Input, behaviour and distribution of multiple elements in abiotic matrices along a transect within the Okavango Delta, northern Botswana

    • Jörg Schaller
    • Jonas Schoelynck
    • Eric Struyf

    OriginalPaper 19 November 2016 Article: 682

    

20. Bioaccumulation and cancer risk of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in leafy vegetables grown in soils within automobile repair complex and environ in Uyo, Nigeria

    • Edu Inam
    • Felicia Ibanga
    • Joseph Essien

    OriginalPaper 18 November 2016 Article: 681

    

21. Potable water quality monitoring of primary schools in Magura district, Bangladesh: children’s health risk assessment

    • Aminur Rahman
    • Abul Hashem
    • Shahruk Nur-A-Tomal

    OriginalPaper 18 November 2016 Article: 680

    

22. Assessing mercury contamination in a tropical coastal system using the mussel Perna perna and the sea anemone Bunodosoma caissarum

    • Nafisa Rizzini Ansari
    • Marcos Antônio Fernandez
    • Olaf Malm

    OriginalPaper 18 November 2016 Article: 679

    

23. Soil properties and species composition under different grazing intensity in an alpine meadow on the eastern Tibetan Plateau, China

    • Zhen’an Yang
    • Wan Xiong
    • Huai Chen

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2016 Article: 678

    

24. An assessment of site suitability for marina construction in Istanbul, Turkey, using GIS and AHP multicriteria decision analysis

    • Mustafa Umit Gumusay
    • Gokalp Koseoglu
    • Tolga Bakirman

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2016 Article: 677

    

25. Productivity and phenological responses of natural vegetation to present and future inter-annual climate variability across semi-arid river basins in Chile

    • Francisco E. Glade
    • Marcelo D. Miranda
    • Willem J. D. van Leeuwen

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2016 Article: 676

    

26. The bioconcentration ability of heavy metal research for 50 kinds of rice under the same test conditions

    • Wen-Juan Xie
    • Lei Che
    • Min-Yu Hu

    OriginalPaper Open access 16 November 2016 Article: 675

27. Remediation of Cu metal-induced accelerated Fenton reaction by potato peels bio-sorbent

    • Rafia Azmat
    • Sumeira Moin
    • Ailyan Saleem

    OriginalPaper 16 November 2016 Article: 674

    

28. Non-occupational exposure to heavy metals of the residents of an industrial area and biomonitoring

    • Luigi Vimercati
    • Antonio Baldassarre
    • Giorgio Assennato

    OriginalPaper Open access 16 November 2016 Article: 673

    

29. Changing agricultural practices: potential consequences to aquatic organisms

    • Peter J. Lasier
    • Matthew L. Urich
    • Kathleen M. Owens

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2016 Article: 672

    

30. Methodological approach for the collection and simultaneous estimation of greenhouse gases emission from aquaculture ponds

    • Muthuraman Vasanth
    • Moturi Muralidhar
    • Koyadan Kizhakkedath Vijayan

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2016 Article: 671

    

31. Complexation of DTPA and EDTA with Cd²⁺: stability constants and thermodynamic parameters at the soil-water interface

    • Tanmoy Karak
    • Ranjit Kumar Paul
    • Romesh Kumar Boruah

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2016 Article: 670

    

32. Monitoring of aflatoxin G1, B1, G2, and B2 occurrence in some samples of walnut

    • Reza Habibipour
    • Parisa Rahimi Tamandegani
    • Abbas Farmany

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2016 Article: 669

    

33. Relationship between heavy metals and minerals extracted from soil clay by standard and novel acid extraction procedures

    • Vander Freitas Melo
    • Araína Hulmann Batista
    • Andrew W. Rate

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2016 Article: 668

    

34. Application of PSO algorithm in short-term optimization of reservoir operation

    • Kazem SaberChenari
    • Hirad Abghari
    • Hossein Tabari

    OriginalPaper 14 November 2016 Article: 667

    

35. Mercury concentration in the feathers of birds from various trophic levels in Fereydunkenar International wetland (Iran)

    • Mousa Ahmadpour
    • Li Lan-Hai
    • Łukasz J. Binkowski

    OriginalPaper Open access 12 November 2016 Article: 666

    

36. Study of the effect of sample pressure on in situ BTEX chromatographs

    • Cristina Romero Trigueros
    • Marta Doval Miñarro
    • Enrique González Ferradás

    OriginalPaper 12 November 2016 Article: 665

    

37. Effects of domestic wastewater treated by anaerobic stabilization on soil pollution, plant nutrition, and cotton crop yield

    • Nese Uzen
    • Oner Cetin
    • Mustafa Unlu

    OriginalPaper 12 November 2016 Article: 664

    

38. Translocation of metal ions from soil to tobacco roots and their concentration in the plant parts

    • Cleber Pinto da Silva
    • Thiago E. de Almeida
    • Sandro Xavier de Campos

    OriginalPaper 11 November 2016 Article: 663

    

39. Remote sensing of bacterial response to degrading phytoplankton in the Arabian Sea

    • P. Priyaja
    • R. Dwivedi
    • M. Sudhakar

    OriginalPaper 11 November 2016 Article: 662

    

40. Occurrence and seasonal variations of 25 pharmaceutical residues in wastewater and drinking water treatment plants

    • A. Kot-Wasik
    • A. Jakimska
    • M. Śliwka-Kaszyńska

    OriginalPaper 11 November 2016 Article: 661

    

41. Analytical evaluation of the protection offered by sealed tractor cabins during crop pulverization with fenitrothion

    • Michelle Barcellos
    • Milena Michele Faletti
    • Fernando Cesar Bauer

    OriginalPaper 11 November 2016 Article: 660

    

42. Biodegradation of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid by bacteria with highly antibiotic-resistant pattern isolated from wheat field soils in Kurdistan, Iran

    • Solmaz Karami
    • Afshin Maleki
    • Enayatollah Kalantar

    OriginalPaper 10 November 2016 Article: 659

    

43. Development of deforestation and land cover database for Bhutan (1930–2014)

    • C. Sudhakar Reddy
    • K. V. Satish
    • V. K. Dadhwal

    OriginalPaper 10 November 2016 Article: 658

    

44. Comparison of metal pollution and health risks of urban dust in Beijing in 2007 and 2012

    • Yang Yu
    • Junhua Ma
    • Yingxia Li

    OriginalPaper 10 November 2016 Article: 657

    

45. Flash flood susceptibility analysis and its mapping using different bivariate models in Iran: a comparison between Shannon^’s entropy, statistical index, and weighting factor models

    • Khabat Khosravi
    • Hamid Reza Pourghasemi
    • Masoumeh Bahri

    OriginalPaper 08 November 2016 Article: 656

    

46. Re-vegetation processes in cutaway peat production fields in Estonia in relation to peat quality and water regime

    • Mall Orru
    • Katri Ots
    • Hans Orru

    OriginalPaper 08 November 2016 Article: 655

    

47. Assessing Nebraska playa wetland inundation status during 1985–2015 using Landsat data and Google Earth Engine

    • Zhenghong Tang
    • Yao Li
    • Ruopu Li

    OriginalPaper 08 November 2016 Article: 654

    

48. Effects of anthropogenic fragmentation on primary productivity and soil carbon storage in temperate mountain grasslands

    • Emilia Ionela Cojoc
    • Carmen Postolache
    • Carl Beierkuhnlein

    OriginalPaper 07 November 2016 Article: 653

    

49. Ecosystem services of human-dominated watersheds and land use influences: a case study from the Dianchi Lake watershed in China

    • Ying Hou
    • Bo Li
    • Weiping Chen

    OriginalPaper 07 November 2016 Article: 652

    

50. Determining an appropriate method for the purpose of land allocation for ecotourism development (case study: Taleghan County, Iran)

    • H. Aliani
    • S. Babaie Kafaky
    • S. M. Monavari

    OriginalPaper 04 November 2016 Article: 651