Sciences de la Terre et de l'environnement

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Groundwater Exploration in Aaba Residential Area of Akure, Nigeria

Groundwater plays a fundamental role in human life. Despite its indispensable characteristics, it is unfortunate that groundwater is often associated …

2018 Open Access

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Review of Ghana’s water resources: the quality and management with particular focus on freshwater resources

Freshwater resources are continually decreasing in quality and quantity. Approximately, 1% of this freshwater is accessible in lakes, river channels …

2018 Open Access

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Recovery of coral assemblages despite acute and recurrent disturbances on a South Central Pacific reef

Coral reefs are increasingly threatened by various types of disturbances, and their recovery is challenged by accelerating, human-induced environmental changes. …

2018 Open Access

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Health risk assessment and heavy metal contamination levels in vegetables from Tamale Metropolis, Ghana

Background One major route of heavy metal exposure/ accumulation to humans is via vegetable consumption. The study assessed the levels …

2018 Open Access

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Drivers of woody plant encroachment over Africa

Abstract While global deforestation induced by human land use has been quantified, the drivers and extent of simultaneous woody plant …

2018 Open Access

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Fuzzy and process modelling of contour ridge water dynamics

Abstract. Contour ridges are an in-situ rainwater harvesting technology developed initially for soil erosion control but are currently also widely …

2018 Open Access

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O OLHAR ERGONÔMICO NO USO DE ESPAÇOS POR IDOSOS: UM ESTUDO DE CASO EM ÁREA DE SERVIÇO

Thanks to the improvement in the quality of life of the Brazilian population, their life expectancy increases, and consequently the …

2018 Open Access

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On the taxonomy of the first record of rare deep-water rough shark species of Oxynotidae (Chondrichthyes: Squaliformes) in the western Indian Ocean

An immature female specimen of rough shark was collected south of Reunion Island in the Madagascar Basin in 2009 aboard …

2018 Open Access

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Correction: Pattern or process? Evaluating the peninsula effect as a determinant of species richness in coastal dune forests

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173694.].

2018 Open Access

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Biogeochemical climatology for the Southern Benguela Upwelling System, constructed from in situ monitoring data

Abstract. An annual and a seasonal biogeochemical climatology had been constructed for the Southern Benguela Upwelling System, from in situ …

2018 Open Access

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Author Correction: Sodium fluoride induces nephrotoxicity via oxidative stress-regulated mitochondrial SIRT3 signaling pathway

A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. …

2018 Open Access

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Correction to: Spatiotemporal trends of urban land use/land cover and green infrastructure change in two Ethiopian cities: Bahir Dar and Hawassa

It was highlighted that in the original version of this article (Gashu and Gebre-Egziabher 2018) published on May 8th 2018, …

2018 Open Access

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Mapping groundwater availability and adequacy in the Lower Zambezi River basin

Abstract. Groundwater plays an important role as a source of water for various socio-economic uses and environmental requirements in the …

2018 Open Access

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RETHINKING STRATEGIC SUSTAINABILITY PLANNING FOR THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR IN SOUTH AFRICA

A series of processes is now converging to force the issue of sustainability to drive South Africa’s low-carbon energy transitions. …

2018 Open Access

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A non-invasive approach to estimate the energetic requirements of an increasing seabird population in a perturbed marine ecosystem

Abstract There is a growing desire to integrate the food requirements of predators living in marine ecosystems impacted by humans …

2018 Open Access

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Impacts of landcover changes on streamflows in the Middle Zambezi Catchment within Zimbabwe

Abstract. We investigate the impacts of land cover changes on the river flows of the Middle Zambezi tributary catchments in …

2018 Open Access

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Near real time water quality monitoring of Chivero and Manyame lakes of Zimbabwe

Abstract. Zimbabwe's water resources are under pressure from both point and non-point sources of pollution hence the need for regular …

2018 Open Access

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Modelling of channel transmission loss processes in semi-arid catchments of southern Africa using the Pitman Model

Abstract. Water availability is one of the major societal issues facing the world. The ability to understand and quantify the …

2018 Open Access

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Isotopic composition and elemental concentrations in groundwater in the Kuiseb Basin and the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin, Namibia

Abstract. We assessed environmental tracers in groundwater in two contrasting basins in Namibia; the Kuiseb Basin, which is a predominantly …

2018 Open Access

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Spatio-temporal variations of hydrochemical and isotopic patterns of groundwater in hand-dug wells: the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin, Namibia

Abstract. The rural population in parts of the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin (CEB) in Namibia depends on groundwater as a source for …

2018 Open Access