Ambio 2007 - Abstracts

Ambio 2007
TitleSubjectAuthors
Actors and arenas in hybrid networks: Implications for environmental policymaking in the Baltic Sea region.(Report)Environmental issuesMarko Joas, Kristine Kern, Siv Sandberg
Adaptive management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon world heritage areas.Environmental issuesCarl Folke, Max Troell, Per Olsson, Lance H. Gunderson, Marten Scheffer, Brian Walker, Boris Worm, Magnus Nystrom, Terence P. Hughes, Heather Leslie, Jon Norberg, Fikret Berkes, Andrew H. Baird, David Bellwood, Beatrice Crona, Ariella Helfgott, Henrik Osterblom, Heidi Schuttenberg, Robert S. Steneck, Maria Tengo, James Wilson
An evaluation pattern for antimacrofouling procedures: Limnoperna fortunei larvae study in a hydroelectric power plant in South America.Environmental issuesGustavo Darrigran, Cristina Damborenea, Nancy Greco
Aral Sea basin: a sea dies, a sea also rises.Environmental issuesMichael H. Glantz
Assessment of the potential of ecolabels to promote agrobiodiversity.Environmental issuesPieter Glasbergen, Mariette van Amstel, Willem de Neve, Joop de Kraker
A synthesis of progress and uncertainties in attributing the sources of mercury in deposition.(Report)Environmental issuesChristian Seigneur, Ralf Ebinghaus, Steve Lindberg, Russell Bullock, Daniel Engstrom, Feng Xinbin, Fitzgerald William, Nicola Pirrone, Eric Prestbo
Attempts to probe the ozone layer and the ultraviolet-B levels of the past.Environmental issuesLars Olof Bjorn, Richard L. McKenzie
Bacterial diversity and function in the Baltic Sea with an emphasis on cyanobacteria.(Report)Environmental issuesKaarina Sivonen, Christina Lyra, Kerttu Koskenniemi, Katrianna Hallnen, Leila M. Sihvonen, Hanna Sinkko, Kalsa Rantasarkka, Pia H. Moisander
Biomonitoring aquatic environmental quality in a marine protected area: a biomarker approach.Environmental issuesStefano Bonacci, Annalisa Iacocca, Soania Fossi, Lucia Lancini, Tancredi Caruso, Ilaria Corsi, Silvano Focardi
Biomonitoring trace-element levels in [PM.sub.10] released from vehicles using leaves of Saraca indica and Lantana camara.Environmental issuesSantosh K. Prajapati, B.D. Tripathi
Blackfoot disease in Taiwan: Its link with inorganic arsenic exposure from drinking water.(Report)Environmental issuesJose A. Centeno, Chin-Hsiao Tseng, Choon-Khim Chong, Ching-Ping Tseng
Causes and consequences of a tropical forest gold rush in the Guiana Shield, South America.Environmental issuesDavid S. Hammond, Valery Gond, Benoit de Thoisy, Pierre-Michel Forget, Bart P.E. DeDijn
Changing environments or shifting paradigms? Strategic decision making toward water protection in Helsinki, 1850-2000.(Report)Environmental issuesSari Laurila, Simo Laakkonen
Characterizing and comparing backcountry trail conditions in Mount Robson Provincial Park, Canada.Environmental issuesSanjay K. Nepal, Paul Way
China's natural wetlands: past problems, current status and future challenges.Environmental issuesAn Shuquing, Harbin Li, Guan Baohua, Zhou Changfang, Wang Zhongsheng, Deng Zifa, Zhi Yingbiao, Liu Yuhong, Xu Chi, Fang Shubo, Jiang Jinhul, Li Hongli
Climatic, socio-economic and health factors affecting human vulnerability to cholera in the Lake Victoria basin, East Africa.Environmental issuesShem O. Wandiga, Daniel Olago, Michael Marshall
Cold War and the environment: The role of Finland in international environmental politics in the Baltic Sea region.(Report)Environmental issuesSimo Laakkonen, Tuomas Rasanen
Combating land degradation through participatory means: the case of Swaziland.Environmental issuesDavid S.G. Thomas, Lindsay C. Stringer, Chasca Twyman
Conflict between biodiversity conservation and human activities in the Central and Eastern European countries.Environmental issuesTiiu Kull, Allan Watt, Juliette Young, Caspian Richards, Anke Fischer, Lubos Halada, Antoni Kuzniar, Urmas Tartes, Yordan Uzunov
Contaminant transport in a municipal drinking water supply: a steady-state approach to estimate rate and uncertainty.Environmental issuesHjalmar Laudon, Martin Bergvall, Harald Grip, Jan Sjostrom
Coptis teeta-based agroforestry system and its conservation potential: a case study from Northwest Yunnan.Environmental issuesJi Huang, Chunlin Long
Coupled human and natural systems.Environmental issuesCarl Folke, Jane Lubchenco, Elinor Ostrom, Stephen H. Schneider, Stephen R. Carpenter, Thomas Dietz, William W. Taylor, Alice N. Pell, Marina Alberti, Charles L. Redman, Zhiyun Ouyang, Peter Deadman, Timothy Kratz, William Provencher
Declining populations of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera) are burdened with heavy metals and DDT/DDE.Environmental issuesHartmut Frank, Silke Gerstmann
Denitrification in the river estuaries of the Northern Baltic Sea.(Report)Environmental issuesJorma Kuparinen, Hanna Silvennolnen, Susanna Hietanen, Anu Lilkanen, C. Florian Stange, Rolf Russow, Perttl J. Martlkalnen
Developing a predictive understanding of landscape importance to the Punan-Pelancau of East Kalimantan, Borneo.Environmental issuesDouglas Sheil, Imam Basuki, Robert N. Cunliffe, Timothy J.P. Lynam, Meilinda Wan, Agus Salim, Hari Priyadi
Developing a translational discourse to communicate uncertainty in flood risk between science and the practitioner.Environmental issuesHazel Faulkner, Dennis Parker, Colin Green, Keith Beven
Disharmony between society and environmental carrying capacity: a historical review, with an emphasis on China.Environmental issuesLi Chen, Shixiong Cao, Zhande Liu
Ecosystem consequences of cyanobacteria in the Northern Baltic Sea.(Report)Environmental issuesMllna Karjalalnen, Jonna Engstrom-Ost, Samuli Korpinen, Heikki Peltonen, Jarj-Pekka Paakkonen, Sanna Ronkkonen, Sanna Suikkanen, Markku Viitasalo
Ecosystem goods and services from Swedish coastal habitats: identification, valuation, and implications of ecosystem shifts.Environmental issuesNils Kautsky, Max Troell, Leif Pihl, Tore Soderqvist, Patrik Ronnback, Hakan Wennhage
Emigration and mortality of black-necked swans (Cygnus melancoryphus) and disappearance of the Macrophyte Egeria densa in a Ramsar Wetland site of Southern Chile.Environmental issuesEduardo J. Lopetegui, Roberto S. Vollmann, Heraldo C. Cifuentes, Cristian D. Valenzuela, Nelson L. Suarez, Enrique P. Herbach, Jorge U. Huepe, Gaston V. Jaramillo, Bruno P. Leischner, Ricardo S. Riveros
Environmental and economic evaluation of natural capital appropriation through building construction: practical case study in the Italian context.Environmental issuesSimone Bastianoni, Alessandro Galli, Riccardo Maria Pulselli, Valentina Niccolucci
Environmental degradation in the Yellow River Delta, Shandong Province, China.Environmental issuesShanzhong Qi, Fang Luo
Environmental hazard screening of a metal-polluted site using pressurized liquid extraction and two In Vitro bioassays.Environmental issuesMats Tysklind, Daniel Ragnvaldsson, Rune Berglind, Per Leffler
Ethnobotanical skills and clearance of tropical rain forest for agriculture: a case study in the lowlands of Bolivia.Environmental issuesWilliam R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Tomas Huanca, Susan Tanner, Thomas McDade, Vincent Vadez
Financial comparisons of fishing gear used in Kenya's coral reef lagoons.Environmental issuesCallum M. Roberts, Stephen C. Mangi, Lynda D. Rodwell
Geomarkers versus biomarkers: paleoenvironmental and astrobiological significance.Environmental issuesJesus Martinez-Frias, Abraham Esteve-Nunez, Ester Lazaro
Global impacts of geogenic arsenic: A medical geology research case.(Report)Environmental issuesJose A. Centeno, Chin-Hsiao Tseng, Gijsbert B. Van der Voet, Robert B. Finkelman
Health effects of toxic organic substances from coal: Toward "Panendemic" nephropathy.(Report)Environmental issuesWilliam Orem, Calin Tatu, Nikola Pavlovic, Joseph Bunnell, Harry Lerch, Virgil Paunescu, Valentin Ordodi, Deolinda Flores, Margo Corum, Anne Bates
Health impacts of coal: Facts and fallacies.(Report)Environmental issuesRobert B. Finkelman
Human dietary intake of organochlorines from Baltic herring: implications of individual fish variability and fisheries management.(Report)Environmental issuesHannu Kiviranta, Roger I. Jones, Heikki Peltonen, Mikko Kiljunen, Mari Vanhatalo, Samu Mantyniemi, Sakari Kuikka, Juha Karjalalnen, Raimo Parmanne, Jouni T. Tuomisto, Pekka J. Vuorinen, Anja Hallikainen, Mattl Verta, Jukka Ponni
Impacts of eutrophication on diatom life forms and species richness in coastal waters of the Baltic Sea.(Report)Environmental issuesKaarina Weckstrom, Atte Korhola, Jan Weckstrom
Importance of using multiple sampling methodologies for estimating of fish community composition in offshore wind power construction areas of the Baltic Sea.Environmental issuesMartin Gullstrom, Marcus C. Ohman, Mathias H. Andersson, Maria E. Asplund
Improvement of Baltic proper water quality using large-scale ecological engineering.(Report)Environmental issuesAnders Stigebrandt, Bo G. Gustafsson
Improving soil investigations at brownfield sites using a flexible work Strategy and screening methods inspired by the US Environmental Protection Agency's triad approach.Environmental issuesMaurice, Christian; Gustavvson, Bjorn, Ragnvaldsson, Daniel; Rydvall, Bjorn, Berglind, Rune; Haglund, Peter, Johnson, Torbjorn; Leffler, Per, Luthborn, Karin; von Heijne, Patrik
Increasing conservation management action by involving local people in natural resource monitoring.Environmental issuesFinn Danielsen, Marlynn M. Mendoza, Anson Tagtag, Phillip A. Alviola, Danilo S. Balete, Arne E. Jensen, Martin Enghoff, Michael K. Poulsen
Internal ecosystem feedbacks enhance nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria blooms and complicate management in the Baltic Sea.(Report)Environmental issuesDaniel J. Conley, Fredrik Wulff, Harri Kuosa, Oleg P. Savchuk, Emil Vahtera, Bo G. Gustafsson, Heikki Pltkanen, Timo Tamminen, Markku Vitasalo, Maren Voss, Norbert Wasmund
International trade in meat: the tip of the pork chop.Environmental issuesVaclav Smil, Harold A. Mooney, James N. Galloway, Rosamond Naylor, Marshall Burke, G. Eric Bradford, Walter Falcon, Ashok K. Chapagain, Joanne C. Gaskell, Ellen McCullogh, Kirsten L.L. Oleson, Henning Steinfold, Tom Wassenaar
Is adaptive management helping to solve fisheries problems?Environmental issuesCarl J. Walters
Lake Borullus of the Nile Delta: a short history and an uncertain future.Environmental issuesHenri J. Dumont, Gamal M. El-Shabrawy
Legal requirements and wastewater discharges to polish water bodies, 1945-2003.(Report)Environmental issuesPiotr Kowalik, Simo Laakonen
M74 syndrome in Baltic salmon and the possible role of oxidative stresses in its development: Present knowledge and perspectives for future studies.(Report)Environmental issuesKristiina A.M. Vuori, Mikko Nikinmaa
Macroalgal communities face the challenge of changing biotic interactions: Review with focus on the Baltic Sea.(Report)Environmental issuesTuija Honkanen, Anne Hemmi, Samuli Korpinen, Rlltta Koivikko, Outi Veskoski, Jyrki Loponen, Veijo Jormalanen
Management options and effects on a marine ecosystem: Assessing the future of the Baltic.(Report)Environmental issuesChristoph Humborg, Fredrik Wulff, Carl-Magnus Morth, Oleg P. Savchuk, Alexander Sokolov
Managing Baltic Sea fisheries under contrasting production and predation regimes: Ecosystem model analyses.(Report)Environmental issuesJames F. Kitchell, Sture Hansson, Hjerne. Olle, Chris Harvey
Managing climate change impacts to enhance the resilience and sustainability of Fennoscandian forests.Environmental issuesF. Stuart Chapin III, Carl Folke, Thomas Elmqvist, Kjell Danell, Nancy Fresco
Managing scuba divers to meet ecological goals for coral reef conservation.Environmental issuesMichael G. Sorice, Oh Chi-Ok, Robert B. Ditton
Mercury pollution trends in subarctic lakes in the northern Swedish mountains.Environmental issuesIngemar Renberg, Richard Bindler, Carola Lindeberg, Christian Bigler, Peter Rosen
Metal biology: Aspects of beneficial effects.(Report)Environmental issuesUlf Lindh
Methods for treating soils contaminated with polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans, and other polychlorinated aromatic compounds.Environmental issuesPeter Haglund
Methylmercury exposure and health effects in humans: A worldwide concern.(Report)Environmental issuesKathryn R. Mahaffey, Donna Mergler, Hency A. Anderson, Laurie Hing Man Chan, Michael Murray, Mineshi Sakamoto, Alan H. Stern
Mobility of chloroaromatic compounds in soil: case studies of Swedish chlorophenol-contaminated sawmill sites.Environmental issuesMats Tysklind, Sofia Frankki, Yiva Persson, Lars Oberg, Ulf Skyllberg
Mobilization of mercury and methylmercury from forest soils after a severe storm-fell event.(Report)Environmental issuesJohn Munthe, Sofie Hellsten, Therese Zetterberg
Modeling riverine nutrient transport to the Baltic Sea: A large-scale approach.(Report)Environmental issuesAsa Danielsson, Christoph Humborg, Lars Rahm, Stefan Lofgren, Carl-Magnus Morth, Hanna Eriksson, Miguel Rodriguez Medina, Dennis P. Swaney
Model selection and evaluation for risk assessment of dioxin-contaminated sites.Environmental issuesThomas E. McKone, Mats Tysklind, Wiberg, Karin; Aberg, Annika, Annika Hanberg, Matt MacLeod
Moving to sustainability by learning from successful fisheries.Environmental issuesRay Hilborn
Natural minerogenic dust and human health.(Report)Environmental issuesEdward Derbyshire
Net methylmercury production as a basis for improved risk assessment of mercury-contaminated sediments.Environmental issuesSkyllberg, Ulf; Drott, Andreas, Lambertsson, Lars; Bjorn, Eric, Karisson, Torbjorn; Johnson, Torbjorn, Sven-Ake Heinemo, Henning Holmstrom
Oasis land-use dynamics and its influence on the groundwater in arid Northwest China: a case from terminal oasis of Shiyang river basin.Environmental issuesLihua Zhou, Guojing Yang, Duning Xiao
Offshore windmills and the effects of electromagnetic fields on fish.Environmental issuesPeter Sigray, Marcus C. Ohman, Hakan Westerberg
Perceived importance of sustainability and ethics related to fish: a consumer behavior perspective.Environmental issuesWim Verbeke, Filiep Vanhonacker, Isabelle Sioen, John van Camp, Stefaan de Henauw
Radon: Sources, health risks and hazard mapping.(Report)Environmental issuesJ.D. Appleton
Recent advances in mercury speciation analysis with focus on spectrometric methods and enriched stable isotope applications.Environmental issuesErik Bjorn, Tom Larsson, Lars Lambertsson, Ulf Skylleberg, Wolfgang Frech
Recovery of mercury-contaminated fisheries.(Report)Environmental issuesMilena Horvat, Cynthia C. Gilmour, Charles T. Driscoll, Olaf Malm, John Munthe, Brian A. Branfireun, Reed Harris, Marc Lucotte
Reevaluation of ENCORE: support for the eutrophication threshold model for coral reefs.(Enrichment of Nutrients on Coral Reefs Experiment)Environmental issuesPeter R.F. Bell, Brian E. Lapointe, Ibrahim Elmetri
Removal by sorption and in situ biodegradation of oil spills limits damage marine biota: A laboratory simulation.(Report)Environmental issuesMartin Romantschuk, Johanna Ikavalko, Sonja Suni, Kalsa Koskinen, Sari Kauppi, Emilia Hannula, Tuukka Ryynanen, Annika Aalto, Jenni Jaanhelmo
Response and adaptability of mangrove habitats from the Indian subcontinent to changing climate.Environmental issuesTanaji G. Jagtap, Vinod L. Nagle
Role of sea-ice biota in nutrient and organic material cycles in the Northern Baltic Sea.(Report)Environmental issuesAgneta Andersson, Jorma Kuparinen, Harri Kuosa, Hermanni Kaartokallio, Riitta Autlo, Mats A. Granskog, Johanna Ikavalko, Kimmo Karell, Elina Leskinen, Jonna Piiparinen, Janne-Markus Rintala, Jaana Tuomainen
Saltwater intrusion in the Laizhou Gulf, Shandong Province, China: causes and its impact on coastal areas.Environmental issuesQi Shanzhong, Zhang Zulu, Zheng Zhaopei, Gong Qiaoyu, Zhang Yan
Searching efficient protection strategies for the eutrophied Gulf of Finland: The combined use of 1D and 3D modeling in assessing long-term state scenarios with high spatial resolution.(Report)Environmental issuesFredrik Wulff, Heikki Pitkanen, Oleg P. Savchuk, Mikko Kiirikki, Anttl Ralke, Paivi Korplnen
Selenium deficiency and endemic heart failure in China: A case study of biogeochemistry for human health.(Report)Environmental issuesChangsheng Li
Selenium geochemistry and health.Environmental issuesFiona Fordyce
Socioeconomic consequences of mercury use and pollution.(Report)Environmental issuesFrank Lupi, Paul M. Jakus, Edward B. Swain, Glenn Rice, Peter A. Maxson, Jozef M. Pacyna, Alan Penn, Samuel J. Spiegel, Marcello M. Veiga
Soil climate and decomposer activity in sub-Saharan Africa estimated from standard weather station data: a simple climate index for soil carbon balance calculations.Environmental issuesThomas Katterer, Olof Andren, Job Kihara, Andre Bationo, Bernard Vanlauwe
Sources, fate, and toxic hazards of oxygenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) at PAH-contaminated sites.Environmental issuesMats Tysklind, Peter Haglund, Lundstedt, Staffan; White, Paul A., Lemieux, Christine L.; Lynes, Krista D., Lambert, Iain B.; Oberg, Lars
Sustainability or collapse: what can we learn from integrating the history of humans and the rest of nature?Environmental issuesRobert Costanza, Will Steffen, Lisa Graumlich, Carole Crumbley, John Dearing, Kathy Hibbard, Rik Leemans, Charles Redman, David Schimel
Swimming behavior of roach (Rutilus rutilus) and three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in response to wind power noise and single-tone frequencies.Environmental issuesPeter Sigray, Marcus C. Ohman, Mathias H. Andersson, Emily Dock-Akerman, Ramona Ubral-Hedenberg
Taboos and forest governance: informal protection of hot spot dry forest in southern Madagascar.Environmental issuesThomas Elmqvist, Jakob Lundberg, Maria Tengo, Kristin Johansson, Fanambinantsoa Rakotondrasoa, Jean-Aime Andriamaherilala, Jean-Aime Rakotoarisoa
Temperature-associated dynamics of songbird winter distributions and abundances.Environmental issuesTerry L. Root, J. Russell Butler, Dena P. MacMynowski, Chad Laurent
The Anthropocene: are humans now overwhelming the great forces of nature?Environmental issuesPaul J. Crutzen, Will Steffen, John R. McNeil
The Finnish Baltic sea research programme (BIREME).(Report)Environmental issuesTuula Aarnio
The impact of benthic microfauna for nutrient fluxes from Baltic Sea sediments.(Report)Environmental issuesRutger Rosenberg, Erik Bonsdroff, Karin Karison
The Madison declaration on mercury pollution.(Report)Environmental issues 
The MARE research program 1999-2006: Reflections on program management.(Marine Research on Eutrophication)(Report)Environmental issuesFredrik Wulff, Sif Johansson, Erik Bonsdroff
The Sea Around Us Project: documenting and communicating Global fisheries impacts on marine ecosystems.Environmental issuesDaniel Pauly
Thirty years of land-cover change in Bolivia.Environmental issuesTimothy J. Killeen, Veronica Calderon, Liliana Soria, Belem Quezada, Marc K. Steininger, Grady Harper, Luis A. Solorzano, Compton J. Tucker
Tradeoffs between environmental goals and urban development: the case of nitrogen load from the Stockholm County to the Baltic Sea.Environmental issuesJohan Colding, Asa Jansson
Transgenic maize containing the Cry1Ab protein ephemerally enhances soil microbial communities.Environmental issuesChristian Mulder, Marja Wouterse, Michiel Rutgers, Leo Posthuma
Value of information analysis in remedial investigations.Environmental issuesPar-Erik Back, Lars Rosen, Tommy Norberg
Vulnerability to climate variability and change in East Timor.Environmental issuesJon Barnett, Suraje Dessai, Roger N. Jones
Wastewater management through biomass of Azolla pinnata: an eco-sustainable approach.Environmental issuesPrabhat Kumar Rai
Zoobenthos as indicators of ecological status in coastal brackish waters: A comparative study from the Baltic Sea.(Report)Environmental issuesErik Bonsdroff, Jens Perus, Saara Back, Hans-Goran Lax, Anna Villnas, Vincent Westberg
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