In some environmental problems, it is required to find out if new influences (e.g., new influences on the ozone concentration) occurred in one area of the region (named as a treatment area) have affected the measurements there substantially. For convenience, the area of the regio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2017/37044
Aims: To investigate the characteristics of ambient particulate matter (PM) and its impacts on animal respiratory system. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in urban area of Mysore city from 2014 to 2017. Methodology: The elemental composition, image interpretat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2017/36547
Revised universal soil loss equation (RUSLE2) was applied to assess the soil loss in an agricultural field of Uccle, Belgium. Determination of soil loss required lots of information and data sets from various variables related to RUSLE2 in different formats scales. The effect of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2017/35336
Increasingly, countries are gathering to address concerns surrounding climate change. The 2015 United Nations Conference of Parties, COP21, saw the emergence of a landmark agreement for collective global action. The tagline arising from this agreement was "Long live the planet. L...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2017/33843
The study investigated the comparative assessment of seasonal herbaceous diversity at disturbed and undisturbed forest sites at Pahalgam and Betab valley of Kashmir. The results revealed that Shannon’s diversity attained maximum value (2.238) at site I to a minimum value (0.421)...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2017/31696
Land degradation in Tigray highlands of Ethiopia adversely affects agricultural productivity, the environment, food security and livelihoods of smallholder farmers. This paper answers some pertinent questions on mass mobilization of compulsory free labour for ecological restorati...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2017/35017
Aim: The study aimed at modeling the aerial extent of snow cover of an ungauged mountainous Himalayan region using the temperature index-based method of ArcSWAT model. Study Design: 20 year precipitation and temperature data along with elevation information were used in the simul...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2017/36139
Aim: To study the effect of environmental factors on the activities of soil microbial population in the rhizospheric soil of wheat crop. Study Design: An agroclimatic study was carried out to study the effect of environmental alterations on the activity of soil bacteria in a mult...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2017/35188
The African armyworm Spodoptera exempta (Walker) is an important migratory pest of cereal crops and grasslands in sub-Saharan Africa. It demonstrates great variability in the extent and severity of infestation of its host crops. The African armyworm is known to cause extensive da...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2017/30588
The Central England Temperature (CET) record is the world's longest instrument-based temperature record and covers the years 1659-present. The temperature variation of 0.8°C between the Maunder Sunspot Minimum in the late 17th Century and the beginning of the Industrial Revolutio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2017/34589