1. Amazon Forest Fires Between 2001 and 2006 and Birth Weight in Porto Velho

   • Taiane S. Prass
   • Sílvia R. C. Lopes
   • Katiane G. Brandão

   OriginalPaper 04 April 2012 Pages: 1 - 7

   

2. A Rapid UHPLC Method for the Simultaneous Determination of Drugs from Different Therapeutic Groups in Surface Water and Wastewater

   • Irena Baranowska
   • Bartosz Kowalski

   OriginalPaper Open access 10 April 2012 Pages: 8 - 14

   

3. Direct Estimation of Carbaryl by Gas Liquid Chromatography with Nitrogen Phosphorus Detection

   • Raminderjit Singh Battu
   • Kousik Mandal
   • Balwinder Singh

   OriginalPaper 10 April 2012 Pages: 15 - 20

   

4. Application of Different Extraction Methods for the Determination of Selected Pesticide Residues in Sediments

   • Magdalena Kvíčalová
   • Pavla Doubravová
   • Alena Svobodová

   OriginalPaper 06 April 2012 Pages: 21 - 26

5. Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationship for Prediction of the Toxicity of Phenols on Photobacterium phosphoreum

   • Xiaolin Li
   • Zunyao Wang
   • Hongxia Yu

   OriginalPaper 05 May 2012 Pages: 27 - 31

   

6. Multiple In Vitro Bioassay Approach in Sediment Toxicity Evaluation: Masan Bay, Korea

   • Jee-Hyun Jung
   • Sang Hee Hong
   • N. Kannan

   OriginalPaper 20 April 2012 Pages: 32 - 37

   

7. Response Surface Modeling of Ultrasound-Assisted Dispersive Liquid–Liquid Microextraction for Determination of Benzene, Toluene and Xylenes in Water Samples: Box–Behnken Design

   • Mostafa Khajeh
   • Fatemeh Musavi Zadeh

   OriginalPaper 04 May 2012 Pages: 38 - 43

   

8. Histological Analysis of the Impact of Lagoon Pollution on Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus from Cote d’Ivoire

   • Abiba Sanogo Tidou
   • Armel-cyrille D. Yapi
   • David E. Williams

   OriginalPaper 06 May 2012 Pages: 44 - 52

   

9. Tolerance and Bioaccumulation of Copper by the Entomopathogen Beauveria bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill. Exposed to Various Copper-Based Fungicides

   • Fátima Martins
   • Maria Elisa Soares
   • Paula Baptista

   OriginalPaper 08 April 2012 Pages: 53 - 60

   

10. Effect of Vitamin E Supplementation on Arsenic Induced Oxidative Stress in Goats

    • T. K. Das
    • V. Mani
    • B. K. Datta

    OriginalPaper 03 April 2012 Pages: 61 - 66

11. Time-Dependent Oxidative Stress Responses of Submerged Macrophyte Vallisneria natans Seedlings Exposed to Ammonia in Combination with Microcystin Under Laboratory Conditions

    • Juan Ge
    • Jiajia Li
    • Zhou Yang

    OriginalPaper 08 April 2012 Pages: 67 - 72

    

12. Protective Role of Gallic Acid on Sodium Fluoride Induced Oxidative Stress in Rat Brain

    • Seyed Fazel Nabavi
    • Solomon Habtemariam
    • Seyed Mohammad Nabavi

    OriginalPaper 25 April 2012 Pages: 73 - 77

    

13. Determination of Lead, Mercury and Cadmium in Wild and Farmed Barbus sharpeyi from Shadegan Wetland and Azadegan Aquaculture Site, South of Iran

    • Sanaz Taravati
    • Abolfazl Askary Sary
    • Mehran Javaheri Baboli

    OriginalPaper 27 April 2012 Pages: 78 - 81

14. Lead Bioaccumulation and Toxicity in Tissues of Economically Fish Species from River and Marine Water

    • Abolfazl Askary Sary
    • Maryam Mohammadi

    OriginalPaper 25 April 2012 Pages: 82 - 85

15. Assessment of Metal Concentrations in Two Cyprinid Fish Species (Leuciscus cephalus and Tinca tinca) Captured from Yeniçağa Lake, Turkey

    • Yasemin Saygı
    • Sibel Atasagun Yiğit

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2012 Pages: 86 - 90

    

16. Evaluation of Metal Concentrations in Mussel M. galloprovincialis in the Dardanelles Strait, Turkey in Regard of Safe Human Consumption

    • Akın Çayır
    • Mahmut Coşkun
    • Munevver Coşkun

    OriginalPaper 27 April 2012 Pages: 91 - 95

    

17. Total and Organic Mercury in Liver, Kidney and Muscle of Waterbirds from Wetlands of the Caspian Sea, Iran

    • J. Aazami
    • A. Esmaili-Saria
    • M. Savabieasfahani

    OriginalPaper 22 April 2012 Pages: 96 - 101

    

18. Contaminations of Metal in Tissues of Siberian Gull Larus heuglini: Gender, Age, and Tissue Differences

    • Ebrahim Hoshyari
    • Alireza Pourkhabbaz
    • Borhan Mansouri

    OriginalPaper 26 April 2012 Pages: 102 - 106

19. Mercury Bioaccumulation and Prediction in Terrestrial Insects from Soil in Huludao City, Northeast China

    • Zhongsheng Zhang
    • Xiaolin Song
    • Xianguo Lu

    OriginalPaper Open access 22 April 2012 Pages: 107 - 112

    

20. Spatial-Based Assessment of Metal Contamination in Agricultural Soils Near an Abandoned Copper Mine of Eastern China

    • Chun Qin
    • Chunling Luo
    • Zhenguo Shen

    OriginalPaper 19 April 2012 Pages: 113 - 118

    

21. Temporal Evolution of Exposure to Mercury in Riverside Communities in the Tapajós Basin, from 1994 to 2010

    • M. C. N. Pinheiro
    • S. S. M. Farripas
    • L. C. L. Silveira

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2012 Pages: 119 - 124

    

22. Levels of Cd, Pb, As, Hg, and Se in Hair of Residents Living in Villages Around Fenghuang Polymetallic Mine, Southwestern China

    • Yonghua Li
    • Xiuwu Zhang
    • Hairong Li

    OriginalPaper 22 April 2012 Pages: 125 - 128

23. Metal Contamination in Market Based Vegetables in an Industrial Region, India

    • Mayuri Chabukdhara
    • Arvind K. Nema
    • Sanjay K. Gupta

    OriginalPaper 04 April 2012 Pages: 129 - 132

    

24. Comparison in Accumulation of Lanthanide Elements Among Three Brassicaceae Plant Sprouts

    • Yasumi Anan
    • Yumi Awaya
    • Yasumitsu Ogra

    OriginalPaper 04 May 2012 Pages: 133 - 137

25. Metal Concentrations in the Groundwater in Birjand Flood Plain, Iran

    • Borhan Mansouri
    • Javad Salehi
    • Hamid Kardan Moghaddam

    OriginalPaper 08 April 2012 Pages: 138 - 142

26. Cadmium-Induced Toxicity on Larvae of the Common Asian Toad Duttaphrynus Melanostictus (Schneider 1799): Evidence from Empirical Trials

    • R. A. A. R. Ranatunge
    • M. R. Wijesinghe
    • R. D. Wijesekera

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2012 Pages: 143 - 146

    

27. The Acute and Behavioral Effects of a Copper-Nickel Mixture on Roach Rutilus rutilus

    • Gintaras Svecevičius
    • Nijolė Kazlauskienė
    • Edvinas Taujanskis

    OriginalPaper 20 April 2012 Pages: 147 - 151

28. Chromium (VI) Reduction by Cell Free Extract of Ochrobactrum anthropi Isolated from Tannery Effluent

    • Sikander Sultan
    • Shahida Hasnain

    OriginalPaper 20 April 2012 Pages: 152 - 157

    

29. A Survey of Aflatoxin M₁ Contamination in Bulk Milk Samples from Dairy Bovine, Ovine, and Caprine Herds in Iran

    • Ebrahim Rahimi
    • Mehrdad Ameri

    OriginalPaper 20 April 2012 Pages: 158 - 160

30. Occurrence of (Anti)estrogenic Effects in Surface Sediment from an E-Waste Disassembly Region in East China

    • Lei Chen
    • Chunna Yu
    • Yingxu Chen

    OriginalPaper 10 April 2012 Pages: 161 - 165

    

31. Comet Assay to Assess the Genotoxicity of Persian Walnut (Juglans regia L.) Husks with Statistical Evaluation

    • Milena Petriccione
    • Claudia Ciniglia

    OriginalPaper 24 April 2012 Pages: 166 - 171

    

32. Assessment of Fluoride Contamination in Groundwater as Precursor for Electrocoagulation

    • P. J. Sajil Kumar

    OriginalPaper 22 April 2012 Pages: 172 - 175

    

33. Decrease of Herbicide Bromobutide and its Debromo Metabolite in Paddy Field Soil during 24 weeks After Application

    • Masayuki Morohashi
    • Shunsuke Nagasawa
    • Kuniaki Kawata

    OriginalPaper 04 April 2012 Pages: 176 - 180

    

34. Dissipation and Decontamination of Bifenthrin Residues in Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill)

    • Reena Chauhan
    • Samriti Monga
    • Beena Kumari

    OriginalPaper 25 April 2012 Pages: 181 - 186

    

35. Occurrence of Insecticide Residues in Selected Crops and Natural Resources

    • B. Ratna Kumari
    • G. V. Ranga Rao
    • P. Rajasekhar

    OriginalPaper 28 April 2012 Pages: 187 - 192

36. A Comparative Study on the Persistence of Imidacloprid and Beta-Cyfluthrin in Vegetables

    • Tirthankar Banerjee
    • Devottam Banerjee
    • Srikumar Pal

    OriginalPaper 19 April 2012 Pages: 193 - 196

    

37. Organochlorine Pesticides and Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Various Tissues of Waterbirds in Nalabana Bird Sanctuary, Chilika Lake, Orissa, India

    • V. Dhananjayan

    OriginalPaper 22 April 2012 Pages: 197 - 201

    

38. Occurrence of Organophosphorus and Carbamate Pesticide Residues in Surface Water Samples from the Rangpur District of Bangladesh

    • Alamgir Zaman Chowdhury
    • Salina Akter Jahan
    • Siew Hua Gan

    OriginalPaper 21 April 2012 Pages: 202 - 207

    

39. Toxicity Persistence in Runoff Water and Soil in Experimental Soybean Plots Following Chlorpyrifos Application

    • Hernán Mugni
    • Pablo Demetrio
    • Carlos Bonetto

    OriginalPaper 20 April 2012 Pages: 208 - 212

    

40. Microplastics in Beaches of the East Frisian Islands Spiekeroog and Kachelotplate

    • Gerd Liebezeit
    • Fatehi Dubaish

    OriginalPaper 20 April 2012 Pages: 213 - 217