This book is a continuation of the book Environmental Researcher Biographical Sketches and Research Summaries which compiles biographical sketches of top professionals in the field of environmental research, as well as research summaries from a number of different focuses in this important field. (Imprint: Nova)

Research Summaries on Environment A Revised Checklist of the Flora of Keoladeo National Park, a World Heritage Site in India The Largest Seismically Induced Landslides – New Opportunities for Geomorphological and Paleoseismological Researches A Review of Amendment-Enhanced Phytoextraction of Soil Contaminants A Review of Bioactive Microbubble Dispersions as an Emerging Bioremediation Technology Effects of a Rock Phosphate on Indigenous Rhizobia Associated with Sesbania Sesban Corporate Environmental Reporting and Disclosure: Where to Look and What You Get Effects of the Fungicide and Biocide Dichlofluanid on Living Organisms (A Review) Agricultural Land-Use in Forest Frontier Areas: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia Levels and Trends of Organochlorine Pesticides (OCPs) in Antarctica Utilization of Bovids in Traditional Folk Medicine and Their Implications for Conservation Conservation and Management of the Biodiversity in a Hotspot Characterized by Short Range Endemism and Rarity: The Challenge of New Caledonia Surface Stratification of Soil Nutrients in No Till Limits Nutrient Availability and Reduces Grain Yield Total Metallothionein Quantification by Reversed-Phase High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Fluorescence Detection after Monobromobimane Derivatization Linking the Dynamics of Ruminant Feeding Behavior and Dominant Shrub Responses on Rangeland: Forage Resources Renewal and Biodiversity Conservation Outcomes of Invasive Plant-Native Plant Interactions in North American Freshwater Wetlands: A Foregone Conclusion? Wheat in Bangladesh: Yield Growth, Production Performance and Determinant Rhetoric Construction of Environmental Values in Business Underground Cavity 3D Detection Using Laser System Cross publication Diversity of Fungi on Submerged Leaf and Woody Litter in River Kali, Southwest India Water Quality and Sustainable Development in Yucatán Peninsula Dealing with Hydro-Geological Events: Mitigation and History Cases Identifying Sources of Fecal Pollution in Water with Antibiotic Resistance Patterns Antimicrobial Treatments of Mold and Bacteria Carbon and Nitrogen Compounds Applied to Uranium Mine Dump Soil Determine (Heavy) Metal Uptake by Chinese Cabbage The Use of Dissipated Energy at Modeling of Cyclic Loaded Saturated Soils Lenart Photoregulation of Nutritional Responses in Fremyella diplosiphon: Effects of Light Quality on Organismal Responses to Iron Availability Enhancing Environmental Planning with Exergy International Journal of Computer Research Reactive Diagnosis of Active Systems What Can Cloud Computing Offer to Scientific Research? Managing IT Resources the Smart Way: The Case for Virtualization Parallel Iterative Solvers using Programmable Devices Cybersecurity: Current Legislation, Executive Branch Initiatives, and Options for Congress High-Performance Reversible and Quantum Systolic Parallel Processing, Part I: Two-Valued Implementations High-Performance Reversible and Quantum Systolic Parallel Processing, Part II: Generalized Multiple-Valued Realizations 10 years of Software Development for Approximate Bayesian Computation Broadband Infrastructure Programs in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Spectrum Policy in the Age of Broadband: Issues for Congress Multi-Level Evaluation of Hydrologic Cycle in the Catchment Including Shallow Eutrophic Lake Integrated Water Management for Small Catchments in Arid Mountainous Regions - Yemen Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in Catchment Management: The Issues, Achievements and the Future Review on Rainwater Harvesting and Soil Water Conservation Techniques for Crop Production in Semi-Arid Areas Estimating Winter and Spring Rainfall in the Comahue Region (Argentina) using Statistical Techniques Hydro-Geological and Soil Setting for Controlling the Water Logging Hazards in Dryland Cultivation: Case Study from Farafra Oasis, Egypt Ecological Lake Assessment Considering Catchments Geology and Catchments Area Using Urbanization and Parasitoids: An Unexplored Field of Research Rainwater Acidification with Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and its Impact on Calcium Carbonate Dissolution Rainwater Uses and Storage Raptors in Urban Environment: A Case Study on Common Kestrel and the Long-Eared Owl The Global Extent of Black C in Soils: Is It Everywhere? Current and Emerging Microbiology Issues of Potable Water in Developed Countries Vermiculture Biotechnology: The Emerging Cost-Effective and Sustainable Technology of the 21st Century for Waste & Land Management to Safe & Sustainable Food Production Human Waste - A Potential Resource: Converting Trash into Treasure by Embracing the 5 R’s Philosophy for Safe & Sustainable Waste Management Effective Removal of Low Concentrations of Arsenic and Lead and the Monitoring of Molecular Removal Mechanism at Surface On the Redistribution of Tissue Metal Aerobically Biodegraded Fish-Meal Wastewater as a Fertilizer Equity of Access to Public Parks in Birmingham, England An Idea for Phenomenological Theory of Living Systems A New Trait of Gentoo Penguin: Possible Relation to Antartica Environmental State? Assessing Population Viability of Focal Species Targets in the Western Forest Complex, Thailand Protection of Riparian Landscapes in Israel Hydraulic Characterization of Aquifer(s) and Pump Test Data Analysis of Deep Aquifer in the Arsenic Affected Meghna River Floodplain of Bangladesh Application of DNA Microarrays to Microbial Ecology Research: History, Challenges and Recent Developments Food Safety in India: Challenges and Opportunities Impact of Pesticide Use in Indian Agriculture: Their Benefits and Hazards Ozone Decomposition by Catalysts and its Application in Water Treatment: An Overview Use of Microarrays to Study Environmentally Relevant Organisms: A UK Perspective Fluid Flow and Contaminant Propagation in Fractured Rock Aquifers Crowded Desert Contribution of Homegardens, Agrosilvopastoral Systems, and Other Human-Dominated Land-Use Types to the Avian Diversity of a Biological Corridor in Costa Rica Spatial, Temporal and Spatiotemporal Continuities of Rainfalls Based on Statistical and Geostatistical Analysis Secondary Salinization of Soils in the Aral Basin as a Factor of Anthropogenic Desertification Association of Atmospheric Particulate Chemical Characteristics with Vehicular Emission in Sao Paulo City, Brazil Role of Fire on Patagonian Grasslands: Changes in Above-Ground Vegetation and Soil Seed Bank Plateau-Monsoon Water Vapor Transport for Meiyu Rainfall Industrial Wastewater Treatment Using Advanced Chemical Oxidation with Fenton Reagent Recognition of Likely Large-Scale Landslip Failure Surfaces Through Geotechnical Core Logging Methods Embracing Data: Potential Uses for Data Logging in Online Learning Environments Heavy Rainfall: Long-Term Effects and Mitigation with Drains Multivariate Zonation of Logging Data Synthetic Fluid Inclusion Logging The Role of Water Vapour Condensation in Global Warming Approaches to Control Airborne Aerosols at Regional Scale: Multiple Sources under Unfavorable Climatology Wildfire Detection in Europe, Morocco and Tunisia Biomonitoring of Rivers for Conservation and Sustainability: The Nigerian Experience The Dynamics of the Marine Environment versus the Rigid Interpretation of Nature Conservation Law Solid Domestic Waste and its Legalisation in Turkey Diagnostic of Health Status in Mangrove Ecosystems Studies on East Calcutta Wetland: A Unique Biological Ecosystem Threats to European Freshwater Biodiversity from Invasive Amphipods Outcomes of Invasive Plant-Native Plant Interactions in North American Freshwater Wetlands: A Foregone Conclusion? Biological Invasions: Implications for the Biodiversity in Wetland Ecosystems Richness and Diversity of Water Mite Species at Local and Regional Scale in Subtropical Yungas (South America) Soil Remediation: A Sound Alternative Is Posner’s Principle of Justice an Adequate Basis for Environmental Law? South African Business Opportunities under the Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism Spatial Interpolation Techniques for Environmental Data: Theory to Practice Interrelation between Coastal Processes, Surface Water and Groundwater at the Outer Coastal Region of the Rio de la Plata Estuary, Argentina The Influence of Temperatures and Planting Time on Plant Development and Yield of Different Short-Day Strawberry Genotypes and Prerequisites of High Yields Pollen Morphology and Ultrastructure of Fossil Platanoids and Modern Platanus L: Significance for Systematics and Phylogeny Evolutionary Models of Weed Life History Population Dynamics The Environmental Degradation Paradigm in Africa: Perspectives Based on Long-Term Vegetation Cover Monitoring in Northern South Africa Decentralized Treatment of Sewage Employing Upflow Septic Tank/Baffled Reactor (USBR) in Developing Countries Wind Erosion and Wind Turbines The Effects of Soil Pollution and its Relation with Morbidity in Shoreline Areas Field-Scale Rhyzoremediation of a Contaminated Soil with Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) Isomers: The Potential of Poplars for Environmental Restoration and Economical Sustainability Impacts of Antibiotics and Their Fate Into the Natural Environment The Potential of Biogas in the Zero-Waste Mode in the Cold-Climate Environment Persistence and Metabolism of Endosulfan (WDG) in/on Black Gram Under East Indian Agro Climatic Condition Harvest Time Residues of Oryzalin in/on Soybean under Eastern Indian Climatic Conditions Harvest Time Residues of Benthiocarb in/on Rice Ecosystem under East-Indian Climatic Conditions Air Quality Impact Due to Al-Jubail Multi-Stage Flash (MSF) Desalination Plant in Saudi Arabia Prediction of CO and NOx Abatement in Catalytic Converter of a Compressed Natural Gas Vehicle (CNGV) Cold-Start Engine Environmental Considerations in Construction Projects Removal of Cationic Dyes from Aqueous Solution by Adsorption on Pistachio Hull Cost Benefit in Cabbage Cultivation by Weed Control Using Oryzalin Herbicide and Hoeing Technology Impact of Spinosad: Macrocyclic Insecticide on the Incidence of Stem Borers in Scented Rice Under East-Indian Climatic Condition Evaluation of Spatial, Temporal and Depth Variation Patterns of Major Nutrients and Chlorophyll in a Wetland Receiving Agricultural and Municipal Runoff Comparative Analysis of Pb, Cd, Cr, Ni, Zn and Fe Concentrations in Hair and Urine among the Urban and Non-Urban Industrial Workers and Non-Professional Persons Pavement Materials Evaluation Through a Two-Stage Life Cycle Analysis Approach The Influence of Indonesian Tropical Climate to the Fate and Distribution of Nutrients and Micropollutants in Segara Anakan Estuary River Response to Climate Change in the Tropics: A Three Hundred Thousand Year History of the Nile Indigenous Culture and Education: Mexican Adolescents’ Perception and Interest on Communal Forestry Management Forestry Education towards Ecological Civilization Migration Factors of Radionuclides and Heavy Metals during Forest Fires in Siberia Establishment and Application of the Synthetic Assessment System of Forest Ecosystem Health in Beijing Area Study on the Region Scale Diversity of Rodent Community in Semi-Desert and Desert Areas of China Air Dispersion Modeling Underwater Anchored Profiler Aqualog for Ocean Environmental Monitoring Toxic Metals Fixation in Fe Hydr(oxides) - A Soil Remedial Strategy Exposure – Dose Relationship for Airborne Nanoparticles Environmental and Occupational Exposure to PAHs: Monitoring and Evaluation of Genotoxic Effects Environmental Radiation Monitoring: Public Dose Limits, Measurements and Interpretation A Cadmium Standard Regression Line: A Possible New Index for Biological Monitoring The Biological Monitoring of Wild Birds: Part 1 – The Cadmium Content of Organs from Migratory Birds The Biological Monitoring of Wild Birds: Part II – The Possibility of a New Index for Biological Monitoring Cadmium speciation and biological uptake over water-sediment interfaces Radiative Transfer and its Impact on Thermal Diffusivity Determined in Remote Sensing Vapour Intrusion into Buildings - A Literature Review Analysis of Nitrogen and Carbon Removal from Organic Loaded Effluents using Reactors in Series and Integrated Reactors Soil Properties Small Mammals, Morphology and Molecules: Tale-Bearing Tenants of the Nigerian Southwestern Forest Block The Evolution of Smog Cloud in the Surface Layer of the Atmosphere Yeast Diversity in Freshwater Ecosystems Azimuth-Variant Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Processing Aggregation of Descriptive Regularization Methods with Hardware/Software Co-Design for Remote Sensing Imaging Ecological Restoration in Boreal Forest Management: Application of Rolled Lawn in an Area Currently Suffering from Pollution Environmental Chamber Study of the Photochemical Reaction of Diethyl Ether and NOx Predicting Gaseous and Solid Air Pollution with Cyclostationary Neural Networks Earthquake Preparation and Warning: Science, Methods and Technologies Geochemical Characteristics and Environmental Assessment of Paddy Fields: A Case Study of Kocani Field (Republic of Macedonia) The Underlying Causes of Deforestation and the Patterns of Forest Transition: Implications for the International REDD Policy Deforestation in Central and West Africa: Landscape Dynamics, Anthropogenic Effects and Ecological Consequences The Influence of Host Plant Odors on Paddy Field Invasion of Rice-Ear Bugs Phosphorus Purification in a Paddy Field Watershed and a New Method for Phosphorus Recovery From Natural Water Bodies Tsunami Warnings: Predicting Arrivals Chapter 8 Earthquake Predicting by Near-Space Vehicle-borne GNSS Receivers Chapter 9 The Use of Remote Sensing to Locate Heavy Metal as Source of Pollution Chapter 10 Deforestation: Causes, Environmental and Economic Aspects Chapter 11 Deforestation of the Tropical Rain Forest in Mexico: Consequences of Habitat Fragmentation in Community Structure and Function of the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Chapter 12 Environmental (In)Security from Citizens Perspective Chapter 13 Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity in REDD Implementation: What Can We Learn from Past Experience? Postharvest Managememt of Litchi(Litchi chinensis Sonn L) and Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum L.) Fruit New Generation Novel Agrochemicals: An Eco-Friendly Attempt for Plant Protection Status and Position of Aquatic Biodiversity of Four Beels and its Floodplain Level of Northern Bangladesh with a Good Practice of Beel Nurseries and Community Based Co-Management Policy The Links between Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: The Case of the Agriculture Sector in Andalucía Electrochemical Sensing of Deadly Toxin-Atrazine: An Overview Application of Indigenous Technological Knowledge(ITK): An Effective Solution for Fishery Small Mammals, Morphology and Molecules: Tale-Bearing Tenants of the Nigerian Southwestern Forest Block The Economics of the Toxic Use Reduction Act in Massachusetts: The Case for State Assistance Programs A Pilot Study to Develop Forecasting Models for Predicting Hourly Ozone Concentration near Cincinnati, Ohio A Survey of Monitoring and Management Activities for Conserving Rare Plants in National Parks and Protected Areas, Arizona and Nevada, USA Alternative Refrigerating, Heat-Pumping and Air-Conditioning Systems on the basis of the Open Absorption Cycle and Solar Energy Principle of Low Energy Building Design: Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Design and Implementation of a Solar-Powered Air-Conditioning System Room Air Distribution, Indoor Environmental Quality and Energy Performance Solar Thermal Energy Technology: Experimental Study on the Design and Performance of an Indirect Solar Dryer for Agricultural Products A Passive and Available Air-House Conditioning by Exploiting Renewable Energy Sources Multi-Purpose Operation Planning of the Micro-Energy Source for Air Conditioning with Renewable Energy Improving Design in Reversible Heat Pumps Load Predictor for Air Conditioning Systems using Artificial Neural Networks Models for Intelligent Buildings Performance of a Passive Aquarium’s Conditioning System New Progresses in Liquid Desiccant Cooling System: Adsorption Dehumidifier and Membrane Regenerator Parameters Controlling Ambient Air Benzene Concentrations and Human Exposure in a Medium Sized Southeastern European City Meteorological Aspects of Air Quality A Quantitative Comparison of Angstrom¡¯s Turbidity Parameters (¦Á, ¦Â) Retrieved in Different Spectral Ranges Based on Spectral Solar Extinction Measurements Simultaneous Evaluation of Odor Episodes and Air Quality. Methodology to Identify Air Pollutants and their Origin Combining Chemical Analysis (TD-GC/MS), Social Participation and Mathematical Simulations Techniques Lichen Biomonitoring of Air Pollution: Issues for Applications in Complex Environments Hydrocarbon Contamination and Environmental Health Quality: An Overview Bivariate Stochastic Volatility Models Applied to Mexico City Ozone Pollution Data Optimization Approaches for Air Quality Monitoring Network Design Sensitivity of Land Use Parameters and Population on the Prediction of Concentration Using the AERMOD Model for an Urban Area Solar Radiation and CFD Photochemical Modeling in the Urban Canopy Aquatic Insects of Remote Alpine Lakes: Taxonomic Composition, Ecological Patterns and Seasonal Dynamics in Altitudinal Environmental Gradient (Tatra Mts, Slovakia) Herbaceous Species to Control the Alpine Soil Erosion: Field and Laboratory Experimental Tests Estimation of Growing Season Length in Alpine Areas: Effects of Snow and Temperatures Socioeconomics of Conservation in the Alps The Alpine Environment and Anthropisation of the Landscape in the Western Pyrenees (Spain) during the Holocene Tectonic Control on the Evolution of the Middle Triassic Platforms in the Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaric Region Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Alpine Plants Endemic to Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, with Implications for Conservation under Global Warming Agricultural Systems in the Savanna-Forest Ecotone of Venezuelan Amazonian: Evaluation of Soil Quality Indicators Factors Determining Fish Species Diversity in Amazonian Floodplain Lakes Morphological Diversity of Neotropical Characiformes Assessment of Insect Logical Diversity in Various Land Use Systems in the Peruvian Amazon Ethnobotanical Study of Dye-Yielding Plants used in Communities of Shipibo-Konibo Amerindians around Pucallpa City, Peru