Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

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…

Abstract This study analyzed the multielement composition of Soldanella carpatica and the surrounding soils along a montane–alpine gradient (1137–1861 m a.s.l.) across seven sampling sites in the Tatra Mountains (Western Carpathians, Slovakia) to understand how altitude with associated habitat conditions, seasonality, and soil chemistry influence element accumulation and distribution patterns. Th…

Abstract The Fundão tailings dam marks its 10th year of disaster in 2025, underscoring the need for a critical assessment of the studies related to the impacts on aquatic ecosystems caused by the largest disaster in mining history. In this context, the present study aimed to review articles that, throughout the years, have investigated changes in the Doce River basin, as well as in coastal and ma…

Abstract This study presents the first integrated geospatial and temporal assessment of radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure in Cyprus, using 7 years (2017–2023) of periodic in-situ measurements conducted at fixed locations around all operational mobile telephony base stations as part of the national RF-EMF monitoring program. Electric field strengths were evaluated across eleve…