Volume 13, Issue 5 (2017) | American Journal of Environmental Sciences

Effect of Temperature and Precipitation on Global Mangrove Rhizophora Species Distribution

Aroloye O. Numbere — 2017-10-05

American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Published online: 5 October 2017; doi:10.3844/ajessp.2017.342.350

Climate change influences the distribution of mangroves towards tropical or temperate regions of the world. We hypothesized that Rhizophora species organized along complex spatial and temporal tempera...

Evaluation the Anaerobic Digestion Performance of Organic Waste from a Landfill in Morocco

Fatima Ebich — 2017-10-05

American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Published online: 5 October 2017; doi:10.3844/ajessp.2017.351.357

Organic household waste has a high organic content (69 g/kg), value of pH equal to 6,3 with 94% of moisture. Anaerobic digestion is one of the technologies for recycling and stabilization of organic w...

Building Resilience in Natural Capital to Reduce Disaster Risks and Adapt to Climate Change: A Case of Wetlands in the Eastern Free State; South Africa

Johanes A. Belle — 2017-10-12

American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Published online: 12 October 2017; doi:10.3844/ajessp.2017.358.377

Wetlands are a form of natural capital which provide services that improve the welbeing of the local community. Unfortunately many wetlands have been degraded before their values and functions were re...

Evaluation of Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Models for River Flow Forecasting

Kassahun Birhanu Tadesse — 2017-09-28

American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Published online: 28 September 2017; doi:10.3844/ajessp.2017.378.387

Reservoir operation policies cannot be functional in instant decision making without forecasting the future reservoir inflows. For forecasting inflows into reservoirs with only hydrological data is av...