Mitigating stream and river impairment is complex, particularly in mixed-land-use watersheds given the likelihood of integrated responses of stream restoration to coupled and ongoing terrestrial ecosystem disturbance and the need for periodic reassessment and maintenance. Traditional biological sampling (e.g., macroinvertebrate sampling or other biological indices) alone seldom identifies the c...

In this study, we examined Spatial-temporal gait stride parameters, lower extremity joint angles, ground reaction forces (GRF) components, and electromyographic activation patterns of 10 healthy elderly individuals (70+/-6 years) walking in water and on land and compared them to a reference group of 10 younger adults (29+/-6 years). They all walked at self-selected comfortable speeds both on la...

The issues of land degradation are directly or indirectly influenced by human and/or natural actions, and it is one the most challenging confronting several regions world, especially developing nations. Notwithstanding importance land, its consequences, possibly as a result various biological, physical, chemical processes caused some activities (both man-induced) that diminish viable yield, in ...

This study focused on the different tools which are used for the assessment of health risk due to contaminated soils in worldwide scenario. Some of the tools are useful for contaminated lands only but there is also availability of tools which have the features to assessment of risk for contaminated soil and water both. In this study, numbers of tools are studied with their features, developed b...

Land degradation is one of the significant issues the human beings are confronted with, which has become a bottleneck of restricting the sustainable development of the regional society and economy. In order to ascertain the root causes contributed to the land degradation and characteristics of land degradation, Bijiang watershed, the most important Lead-Zinc mine area of Lanping county of Yunna...