Distribution, sources and consequences of nutrients, persistent organic pollutants, metals and microplastics in South American estuaries

M Barletta, ARA Lima, MF Costa - Science of the Total environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Estuarine pollution imposes rapid, increasing and lasting environmental modifications. In the
present review, especial attention is given to estuaries in South America (SA), where …

Determination of phosphorus in natural waters: A historical review

P Worsfold, I McKelvie, P Monbet - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to introduce a virtual special issue that reviews the development of
analytical approaches to the determination of phosphorus species in natural waters. The …

Eutrophication decrease: Phosphate adsorption processes in presence of nitrates

SP Boeykens, MN Piol, LS Legal, AB Saralegui… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Eutrophication causes aquatic environment degradation as well as serious problems for
different purposes of water uses. Phosphorus and nitrogen, mainly as phosphate and nitrate …

Environmental flow requirements of estuaries: providing resilience to current and future climate and direct anthropogenic changes

D Chilton, DP Hamilton, I Nagelkerken… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Estuaries host unique biodiversity and deliver a range of ecosystem services at the interface
between catchment and the ocean. They are also among the most degraded ecosystems on …

Nutrient enrichment as a threat to the ecological resilience and health of South African microtidal estuaries

JB Adams, S Taljaard, L Van Niekerk… - African Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Nutrient pollution in South African estuaries is described using a Driver-Pressure-State-
Impact-Response framework. The root cause ('driver') of deteriorating water quality is rapid …

The selective deprotonation of carbon quantum dots for fluorescence detection of phosphate and visualization of latent fingerprints

L Yang, Q Zhang, Y Han, H Li, S Sun, Y Xu - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We developed a water-soluble, stable and selective “turn-on” fluorescence sensing platform
based on carbon quantum dots (CQDs) for rapid determination of phosphate (Pi) in aqueous …

Impacts of land-use changes on watershed discharge and water quality in a large intensive agricultural area in Thailand

S Chotpantarat, S Boonkaewwan - Hydrological sciences journal, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The objectives of this research were to evaluate the effect of land-use change on streamflow,
sediment and water quality data along the Lower Yom River, Thailand, covering an …

Bacterial community and nitrate removal by simultaneous heterotrophic and autotrophic denitrification in a bioelectrochemically-assisted constructed wetland

D Xu, E Xiao, P Xu, L Lin, Q Zhou, D Xu, Z Wu - Bioresource technology, 2017 - Elsevier
To enhance nitrate removal in constructed wetlands (CWs), a bioelectrochemically-assisted
CW (BECW) integrating a three-dimensional biofilm-electrode reactor (3D-BER) into the CW …

Delivering multiple ecosystem services from Enclosed Farmland in the UK

L Firbank, RB Bradbury, DI McCracken… - Agriculture, ecosystems & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Here, we review the delivery of ecosystem services from Enclosed Farmland in the UK, and
explore how the expected demands for ecosystem services might be met in the future. Most …

Past and present conservation of south American estuaries

M Barletta, RCB Melo, AK Whitfield - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2023 - Elsevier
South America possesses a variety of estuaries along both tropical and temperate coastal
regions, with most of these systems facing uncontrolled urban settlement and industrial …