Feng, Sansan Lu, Hongwei Yao, Tianci Liu, Yunlong Tian, Peipei Lu, Jingzhao
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Journal of hazardous materials
Microplastics (MPs) are pervasive in the environment and have posed growing threat to ecosystems and human health. This study investigated MP abundances in surface water (fresh and salt lakes, urban and rural rivers, etc.) from 28 stations in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. MPs were detected in 25 out of 28 water samples with relatively low abundance (a...
Zhang, Guan-hua Ding, Wen-feng Pu, Jian Li, Jian-ming Qian, Feng Sun, Bao-yang
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Journal of Mountain Science
Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are important landscape components that exist in various climates and habitats. The roles of biocrusts in numerous soil processes have been predominantly recognized in many dryland regions worldwide. However, little is known about their effects on soil detachment process by overland flow, especially in humid clima...
Li, Jie Gao, Yue Xu, Nan Li, Bin An, Rui Sun, Weiling Borthwick, Alistair G L Ni, Jinren
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Water research
Potential ecological risk from perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) under changing exposure in large river systems has become a new challenge recently. Based on systematic monitoring of PFASs at 43 hydrologic stations along a 4300 km continuum of the Yangtze River, we investigated the ecological risk of PFASs under changing exposure resulting from ope...
Sun, Yanfeng Cao, Meiling Wan, Yanjian Wang, Huaiji Liu, Junling Pan, Feng He, Wenlei Huang, He He, Zhenyu
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The Science of the total environment
Data on chlorophenoxy herbicides (CPHs) in drinking water from China are scarce. This study was designed to describe the occurrence of CPHs in drinking water in China. In June 2019, drinking water samples including 789 tap water and 95 groundwater samples were collected from 31 provinces in mainland China and Hong Kong. Raw source, treated, and tap...
He, Tianfu Deng, Yun Tuo, Youcai Yang, Yanjing Liang, Naisheng
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International journal of environmental research and public health
Water temperature is an important factor in aquatic environments. Dam construction, especially the construction of multiple dams in rivers, can greatly affect the downstream water temperature. Several dams, including Wudongde, Baihetan, Xiluodu, Xiangjiaba, Three Gorges, and Gezhouba, have been constructed between Panzhihua and Yichang along the Ya...
jia, yanyan tang, xiaolan liu, wei
The comprehensive application of ecosystem service value (ESV) and ecological risk index (ERI) assessment can provide better decision support for regional ecological environment protection. Based on the remote sensing image data of Wuhu city of 1995, 2005 and 2016, the paper analyzed the spatial-temporal evolution of ESV and ERI in Wuhu city and it...
Zhang, Hui Jarić, Ivan Roberts, David L He, Yongfeng Du, Hao Wu, Jinming Wang, Chengyou Wei, Qiwei
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The Science of the total environment
The mega river ecosystem of the Yangtze River was once home to diverse aquatic megafauna but is increasingly affected by various anthropogenic stressors that have resulted in continuous loss of biodiversity, such as the probable extinction of Yangtze River Dolphin. The Chinese paddlefish, Psephurus gladius, was one of only two extant members of a r...
ahmed, naveed wang, genxu booij, martijn j. oluwafemi, adeyeri hashmi, muhammad zia-ur-rehman ali, shahid munir, sarfraz
The headwaters of the Yangtze River are located on the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau, which is affected by climate change. Here, treamflow trends for Tuotuohe and Zhimenda sub-basins and relations to temperature and precipitation trends during 1961&ndash / 2015 were investigated. The modified Mann&ndash / Kendall trend test, Pettitt test, wavelet analysi...
Ahmed, Naveed Wang, Gen-xu Oluwafemi, Adeyeri Munir, Sarfraz Hu, Zhao-yong Shakoor, Aamir Imran, Muhammad Ali
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Journal of Mountain Science
The understanding of temperature trends in high elevation mountain areas is an integral part of climate change research and it is critical for assessing the impacts of climate change on water resources including glacier melt, degradation of soils, and active layer thickness. In this study, climate changes were analyzed based on trends in air temper...
Cui, Xiaoai Dong, Jing Huang, Zhifeng Liu, Chengyou Qiao, Xiaocui Wang, Xing Zhao, Xingru Zheng, Binghui Shen, Jinshan
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Environmental Sciences Europe
BackgroundAs the longest river in Asia, the Yangtze River flows through the most industrialized cities in China and provides critical ecological services for agriculture, industry, and transportation. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been banned for many years, but trace amounts of PCBs still exist as persistent organic pollutant in drinking w...
