Anthropogenic influence on compound dry and hot events in China based on CMIP6 models

Author(s):  
Xinying Wu ◽  
Zengchao Hao ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Xuan Zhang ◽  
Fanghua Hao
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Biro

The market for bottled water is growing and increasingly segmented. How do we explain not just the willingness to pay for a substance (water) that is almost free but also the increasing discernment in a drink generally considered tasteless? We argue that bottled water market segmentation is a leading edge of processes of water commodification, associated with the crisis of Fordism and rise of consumerist capitalism, where the assertion of status through commodity consumption is increasingly necessary. The extensive Ray’s & Stark water menu is analyzed to show how the taste for bottled waters is cultivated. In the menu, references to gustatory sensation are limited. Instead, the tastefulness of water inheres in the distance from anthropogenic influence, made visible through scientific (geological) discourses. The tension between the desire to consume unmediated nature and the scientific abstraction necessary to recognize it reveals the social character of the taste for bottled waters. The highly refined sense of taste that the water menu’s readers are presumed to have is a reflection of consumerist capitalism’s distinctive ways of reproducing socio-economic inequality and metabolizing non-human nature.


2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (23) ◽  
pp. 8429-8437 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Alexander Haumann ◽  
Dirk Notz ◽  
Hauke Schmidt

2021 ◽  
Vol 237 ◽  
pp. 104037
Author(s):  
Felipe S. Freitas ◽  
Rosalinda C. Montone ◽  
Eunice C. Machado ◽  
César C. Martins

Author(s):  
Pedro Alexandre Sodrzeieski ◽  
Leonardo Capeleto de Andrade ◽  
Tales Tiecher ◽  
Flávio Anastácio de Oliveira Camargo

Dilúvio Stream flows through an area with a great population density in Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil. The anthropogenic influence in the surroundings impacted negatively the quality of the sediments of Dilúvio Stream and Lake Guaíba. This study evaluated the physico-chemical variability of surface sediments in a non-channeled section of Dilúvio Stream. Additionally, we compared the concentration of several heavy metals in this section with data from previous studies in the margins of Lake Guaíba near the outflow of Dilúvio Stream in order to evaluate the impact of urbanization on sediment pollution. The pH, bulk density, particle-size distribution, electrical conductivity, organic carbon, assimilable phosphorus, total nitrogen, mineralogical composition (X-ray diffractogram) and pseudo total concentration of several metals (Fe, Al, Ca, Mg, Na, K, Mn, Ba, Zn, V, As, Pb, Cu, Cr, Co, Ni, Cd, Mo, and Se) were evaluated. The results showed that the sediments in the non-channeled section of Dilúvio Stream are predominantly sandy, with heavy metal contents below the quality reference values. Quartz and feldspar predominated in all sites. The concentration of Zn, Pb, Cu, Cr, and Ni were lower than that observed in the margins of Lake Guaíba near the outflow of Dilúvio Stream, possibly due to pollution input throughout the channeled section. The Dilúvio Stream shows indications of an anthropogenic influence in the heavy metals concentration through the channeled area.


1999 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sônia Maria Flores Gianesella ◽  
Miryam Bertha Burda Kutner ◽  
Flávia Marisa Prado Saldanha-Corrêa ◽  
Mayza Pompeu

Plankton community and hydrological conditions were assessed as a part of ao environmental diagnosis in São Sebastião Channel, before the building of a submarine outfall of produced water from the oil maritime terminal of PETR08RÁS. Samples were collected in twenty oceanographic stations located in the oil terminal neighboring area, during the springtime of 1991. Oissolved inorganic nutrients and chlorophyll-a concentrations observed indicate an oligo-mesotrophic environment. Phenols and sulfides were absent, 800 values, except for three sampling points, were characteristic of unpolluted environments, although oil and grease were found in half of the sampled stations. Phytoplankton and zooplankton communities presented high diversity and evenness indices for the entire area. Phytoplankton was dominated by phytoflagel1àtes and zooplankton was dominated by copepods, mostly Paracalanus quasimodo. Plankton community composition was similar to that from adjacent regions under low anthropogenic influence.


Author(s):  
Magomed Magomedovich OSMANOV ◽  
Frangiz Shamilievna AMAEVA ◽  
Ayshat Abdulmajidovna ABDURAKHMANOVA

The article presents data from spring hydrobiological studies in the Makhachkala l Seaport during the period of dredging. It is noted that plankton of the studied water area of the Caspian Sea is a typical community of the spring period, formed mainly by marine and brackish-water species of phytoplankton and zooplankton. Diatoms mainly dominate in phytoplankton, and Copepods in zooplankton, where the main dominant is the Azov-Black sea invader Acartia tonsa Dana,1843. The analysis of planktonic communities indicates a rather developed quantitative and qualitative community of aquatic organisms with a characteristic abundance of species inhabiting it in the spring, despite a significant anthropogenic influence. It is established that the ongoing dredging operations do not have a tangible effect on the productivity of planktonic organisms.


Author(s):  
S.A. Zagorodnya ◽  
N.A. Novokhatska ◽  
V.O. Okhariev ◽  
M.A. Popova ◽  
I.V. Radchuk ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Ana Novaković ◽  
Nenad Stavretović ◽  
Jovana Petrović ◽  
Nadežda Stojanović

This study was done with the aim to comparatively analyze the taxonomic and phytogeographical spectrum of lawns along the Belgrade roads. The analysis was done using the results of a floristic research done in 2001, combined with results of the field research conducted in 2019. A comparative analysis of the obtained results has shown that a lower heterogeneity of the floral elements and plant taxa was recorded in the studied lawns in 2019, when compared to the previous research period. Such a reduction in heterogeneity is the result of more intensive measures of lawn care, and of a stronger anthropogenic influence, which has led to a homogenization of the lawn flora.


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