[HTML][HTML] Fecal biomarkers in Italian anthropogenic soil horizons and deposits from Middle Ages and bronze age

M Bortolini, C Nicosia, E Argiriadis, G Pojana… - Quaternary Science …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Archaeological excavations in urban and rural contexts often uncover dark homogeneous
anthropogenic deposits, soils and soil horizons, known as Dark Earths, Cultural Layers and …

Fecal source tracking methods to elucidate critical sources of pathogens and contaminant microbial transport through New Zealand agricultural watersheds–A review

ML Devane, L Weaver, SK Singh, BJ Gilpin - Journal of Environmental …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Abstract In New Zealand, there is substantial potential for microbial contaminants from
agricultural fecal sources to be transported into waterways. The flow and transport pathways …

Characterization of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in an urbanized watershed using spectroscopic analysis

L Lyu, G Liu, Y Shang, Z Wen, J Hou, K Song - Chemosphere, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Landscape urbanization broadly alter watersheds ecosystems, yet the impact of nonpoint
source urban inputs on dissolved organic matter (DOM) amount, composition and source is …

[HTML][HTML] Relationship between nitrate, heavy metal, and sterols contents in Japanese agricultural soils with risk of groundwater pollution

K Nakagawa, MS Islam, SSH Shah, Z Li, Y Takao… - Chemosphere, 2024‏ - Elsevier
In Japanese agricultural lands, nitrate-nitrogen contamination of soil and groundwater often
occurs due to the application of livestock excrements and compost. Therefore, rural soils in …

Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Faecal Sterols in Marine Sediments: An Evidence of Their Presence away from Point Sources–Kuwait's Example

S Uddin, N Habibi, T Saeed, HA Al-Sarawi… - Sustainability, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Coastal areas are vital ecosystems, supporting diverse marine life and providing resources
essential to human well-being. However, sewage pollution poses a significant threat to …

Spatiotemporal variability of hydrocarbons in surface sediments from an intensively human-impacted **aoqing River-Laizhou Bay system in the eastern China …

D He, K Zhang, X Cui, J Tang, Y Sun - Science of the Total Environment, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Hydrocarbons in coastal sediments record organic matter sources, and thus are widely used
to elucidate both natural and anthropogenic inputs and for the estimation of pollution levels …

Source, sink and preservation of organic matter from a machine learning approach of polar lipid tracers in sediments and soils from the Yellow River and Bohai Sea …

K Tao, Y Xu, Y Wang, Y Wang, D He - Chemical Geology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Transport and transformation of organic matter (OM) from the river to the marginal sea is a
significant part of the global carbon cycle. Biomarkers are of indispensable advantage in …

Tracking the historical urban and rural sources of fecal pollution in a South American tropical semi-arid region using sterols and endocrine-disrupting chemicals

FR Santos, PCV Morais, RF Nascimento… - Science of The Total …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Sterols and endocrine-disrupting chemicals were analyzed in two dated sediment cores
collected in the Jaguaribe river to determine the recent decades' influence of urbanization …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative estimates of organic carbon contributions to the river-estuary-marine system in the Jiaozhou Bay, China

K Liu, X **ao, D Zhang, Y Ding, L Li, M Zhao - Ecological Indicators, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Land-ocean interactions play an important role in transporting and accumulating organic
carbon (OC) in marine sediments. Understanding sources (terrestrial, marine and …

Absorption characteristics of CDOM in treated and non-treated urban lakes in Changchun, China

L Lyu, Z Wen, PA Jacinthe, Y Shang, N Zhang… - Environmental …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
In urban settings, one may find (i) lakes that are non-treated (NT) and impacted by recurrent
discharges of pollutants and nutrients, and (ii) lakes that, through restoration measures and …