Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Abstract In 2015, the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam released millions of cubic meters of mine waste into the Rio Doce Basin, causing profound and lasting environmental impacts. We analyzed 3 years of seasonal variation of water quality and metal concentrations across two middle Rio Doce sub-basins: one impacted by the tailings (Doce River) and a non-impacted reference system (Santo Antônio …

Abstract The microplastic pollution of freshwater systems has been a global environmental concern, yet there is a lack of knowledge on tropical rivers. This paper examined the relationships between spatiotemporal microplastic abundance and river water physicochemical and hydrological parameters in the surface water of four rivers of Sarawak in Malaysia (Baram, Miri, Sibuti, and Niah), followed by…

Abstract Air pollution from waste combustion poses serious environmental and public health risks. In Hungary, illegal waste burning in residential stoves remains a significant yet underreported emission source. This study characterizes aerosols in a rapidly expanding rural settlement near Budapest (Solymár), where traffic, biomass burning, and suspected waste combustion are significant contributo…

Abstract Global contamination of aquatic ecosystems by synthetic microparticles has raised increasing concern, yet studies on their ingestion by freshwater invertebrates remain limited. Benthic macroinvertebrates, highly exposed to this kind of contamination, play a key role in aquatic food webs and nutrient cycling. This study investigated the ingestion of synthetic microparticles by benthic mac…

Abstract Continuous and uninterrupted air quality monitoring is essential for environmental management and public policy formulation, which requires the absence of missing data and good quality measurements. However, due to a variety of factors (local power outages, data transmission, instrument calibration, preventive maintenance, weather conditions, etc.), measurement gaps with different time w…

Abstract Large herbivores can strongly influence ecosystem structure and biodiversity, making knowledge of their space use important for trophic rewilding. We used GPS-tracking data collected over two years from 10 semi-feral cattle and 17 horses across ten Danish rewilding sites to analyse habitat use in a use–availability framework using resource selection functions (RSFs), complemented by dire…