Volume 12, Issue 2 (2016) | American Journal of Environmental Sciences

Contrasting Effects of Metal Contaminations and Soil Liming on Cations Exchange Capacity and Global DNA Methylation in Betula papyrifera Populations from a Mining Region

Gabriel Theriault — 2016-04-11

American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Published online: 11 April 2016; doi:10.3844/ajessp.2016.55.62

The Greater Sudbury Region in Northern Ontario (Canada) has been one of the most contaminated regions in the world. Soil liming with dolomitic limestone applications has decreased significantly the le...

Leaves Calorific Values of Selected Species in Burnt Tropical Peat Swamp Forest in Selangor, Malaysia

Gerald Ulok — 2016-03-06

American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Published online: 6 March 2016; doi:10.3844/ajessp.2016.63.67

Forest fire in Malaysia’s peat swamp forest is a major concern since it is contributing to the country’s haze episode. Forest fire in peat areas is difficult to be extinguished and may occur for d...

Comparison of Stochastic and Deterministic Methods for Mapping Environmental Noise from Opencast Quarries

Dario Lippiello — 2016-03-28

American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Published online: 28 March 2016; doi:10.3844/ajessp.2016.68.76

An accurate mapping of the acoustic spatial variability generated by quarrying plants constitutes an important step in the assessment of the environmental compatibility of the extraction site with the...

Decolorization of Six Synthetic Dyes by Fungi

E. Samuel Hartikainen — 2016-03-31

American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2016; doi:10.3844/ajessp.2016.77.85

To find out ability of fourteen basidiomycetes and four ascomycetes strains to grow in the presence of synthetic colour dyes and to degrade them, fungi were cultivated on the malt agar plates containi...

Recent Status of Fishes in the Yangtze River and its Ecological Health Assessment

Chun-Jiao Lu — 2016-04-04

American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Published online: 4 April 2016; doi:10.3844/ajessp.2016.86.93

The Yangtze River, ranking behind the Nile and the Amazon rivers, is the third longest river in the world. The Three Gorges Dam constructed on the Yangtze River dramatically altered the ecological env...

Virtual Assessment of air Pollution Dispersion from Anthropogenic Sudden Explosion

Marvel Lola Akinyemi — 2016-04-09

American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Published online: 9 April 2016; doi:10.3844/ajessp.2016.94.101

The control of air pollutants from anthropogenic sources seems almost impossible due to numerous influencing factors present in the atmosphere. In this study, we carried out a virtual mathematical exp...

Spatial Analysis and Modeling the Nitrogen Flush after Rainfall Events at the Field Scale in SWAT

Elizabeth Brooke Haney — 2016-04-11

American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Published online: 11 April 2016; doi:10.3844/ajessp.2016.102.121

Current nitrogen (N) models tend to neglect the contribution of the microbial population to the plant available N pool, resulting in an underestimation of yield and possible over or underestimation of...

Evaluation of Effluent from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka Wastewater Treatment Plant for Irrigation Purposes

Emmanuel Amagu Echiegu — 2016-04-21

American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Published online: 21 April 2016; doi:10.3844/ajessp.2016.122.130

This study was carried out to determine the suitability of effluents from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) sewage treatment facility for irrigation purposes. The result shows that, from the poi...