Latest Articles in Environment and other programme related areas.

Biodiversity :-.

Articles from Journal title Biological Conservation Volume 131, Issue 1, Pages 1-142 (July 2006)

• Forest fragment size and microhabitat effects on palm seed predation  Pages 1-13 Marina Fleury and Mauro Galetti
• Grasslands as movement barriers for a forest-associated salamander: Migration behavior of adult and juvenile salamanders at a distinct habitat edge  Pages 14-22 Tracy A.G. Rittenhouse and Raymond D. Semlitsch
• Survival rates and causes of mortality in Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in multi-use landscapes Pages 23-32
  Henrik Andrén, John D.C. Linnell, Olof Liberg, Reidar Andersen, Anna Danell, Jens Karlsson, John Odden, Pål F. Moa, Per Ahlqvist, Tor Kvam et al.
• Optimal reserve selection in a dynamic world Pages 33-41 Niels Strange, Bo Jellesmark Thorsen and Jesper Bladt
• Estimating floristic integrity in tallgrass prairie Pages 42-51 John B. Taft, Christopher Hauser and Kenneth R. Robertson
• Pelagic longlines: A threat to sea turtles in the Equatorial Eastern Atlantic Pages 52-57 Alvar Carranza, Andres Domingo and Andres Estrades
• Diversity of dead wood inhabiting fungi and bryophytes in semi-natural beech forests in Europe Pages 58-71
  P. Ódor, J. Heilmann-Clausen, M. Christensen, E. Aude, K.W. van Dort, A. Piltaver, I. Siller, M.T. Veerkamp, R. Walleyn, T. Standovár et al.
• Linking the gaps between conservation research and conservation management of rare dipterocarps: A case study of Shorea lumutensis Pages 72-92 Soon Leong Lee, Kevin K.S. Ng, Leng Guan Saw, Chai Ting Lee, Norwati Muhammad, Naoki Tani, Yoshihiko Tsumura and Jarkko Koskela
• Long-term population declines in Afro-Palearctic migrant birds  Pages 93-105 Fiona J. Sanderson, Paul F. Donald, Deborah J. Pain, Ian J. Burfield and Frans P.J. van Bommel
• Downward trends in Ngorongoro Crater ungulate populations 1986–2005: Conservation concerns and the need for ecological research Pages 106-120 R.D. Estes, J.L. Atwood and A.B. Estes
• Modelling the population dynamics of the Mt. Graham red squirrel: Can we predict its future in a changing environment with multiple threats?  Pages 121-131 S.P. Rushton, D.J.A. Wood, P.W.W. Lurz and J.L. Koprowski
• Long-term impacts of even-aged timber management on abundance and body condition of terrestrial amphibians in Northwestern California Pages 132-140 N.E. Karraker and H.H. Welsh, Jr.

Marine articles:-

Articles from Journal title Marine Pollution Bulletin Volume 53, Issues 5-7, Page 205-374 (2006)
The Prestige Oil Spill: A Scientific Response Edited by Joan Albaigés, Beatriz Morales-Nin and Frederico Vilas

• Geological characterization of the Prestige sinking area Pages 208-219 Gemma Ercilla, Diego Córdoba, Josep Gallart, Eulalia Gràcia, Josep A. Muñoz, Luis Somoza, Juan T. Vázquez, Federico Vilas and Prestige Group
• Oceanographic conditions in North and Northwest Iberia and their influence on the Prestige oil spill 
  Pages 220-238 M. Ruiz-Villarreal, C. González-Pola, G. Diaz del Rio, A. Lavin, P. Otero, S. Piedracoba and J.M. Cabanas
• Influence of the oceanographic conditions during spring 2003 on the transport of the Prestige tanker fuel oil to the Galician coast  Pages 239-249 X.A. Álvarez-Salgado, J.L. Herrera, J. Gago, P. Otero, J.A. Soriano, C.G. Pola and C. García-Soto
• Spatial and temporal distribution of dissolved/dispersed aromatic hydrocarbons in seawater in the area affected by the Prestige oil spill  Pages 250-259 J.J. González, L. Viñas, M.A. Franco, J. Fumega, J.A. Soriano, G. Grueiro, S. Muniategui, P. López-Mahía, D. Prada, J.M. Bayona et al.
• Spatial distribution and ecotoxicity of petroleum hydrocarbons in sediments from the Galicia continental shelf (NW Spain) after the Prestige oil spill  Pages 260-271 M.A. Franco, L. Viñas, J.A. Soriano, D. de Armas, J.J. González, R. Beiras, N. Salas, J.M. Bayona and J. Albaigés
• Cell and tissue biomarkers in mussel, and histopathology in hake and anchovy from Bay of Biscay after the Prestige oil spill (Monitoring Campaign 2003)  Pages 287-304 Ionan Marigómez, Manu Soto, Ibon Cancio, Amaia Orbea, Larraitz Garmendia and Miren P. Cajaraville
• Monitoring biomarkers in fish (Lepidorhombus boscii and Callionymus lyra) from the northern Iberian shelf after the Prestige oil spill  Pages 305-314 C. Martínez-Gómez, J.A. Campillo, J. Benedicto, B. Fernández, J. Valdés, I. García and F. Sánchez
• Spatial and temporal changes in benthic communities of the Galician continental shelf after the Prestige oil spill  Pages 315-331 Alberto Serrano, Francisco Sánchez, Izaskun Preciado, Santiago Parra and Inmaculada Frutos
• Monitoring the Prestige oil spill impacts on some key species of the Northern Iberian shelf  Pages 332-349
  F. Sánchez, F. Velasco, J.E. Cartes, I. Olaso, I. Preciado, E. Fanelli, A. Serrano and J.L. Gutierrez-Zabala
• Improvement of pollutant drift forecast system applied to the Prestige oil spills in Galicia Coast (NW of Spain): Development of an operational system  Pages 350-360 P. Carracedo, S. Torres-López, M. Barreiro, P. Montero, C.F. Balseiro, E. Penabad, P.C. Leitao and V. Pérez-Muñuzuri
• Scientific management of Mediterranean coastal zone: A hybrid ocean forecasting system for oil spill and search and rescue operations Pages 361-368 A. Jordi, M.I. Ferrer, G. Vizoso, A. Orfila, G. Basterretxea, B. Casas, A. Álvarez, D. Roig, B. Garau, M. Martínez et al.
• The Prestige crisis: Operational oceanography applied to oil recovery, by the Basque fishing fleet  Pages 369-374 Manuel González, Adolfo Uriarte, Rogelio Pozo and Michael Collins
  
  

Articles from Journal title Marine Policy Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 299-454 (July 2006)

• Hatchery programs, stock enhancement, and cost effectiveness: A case study of the Albemarle Sound/Roanoke River stocking program 1981–1996  Pages 299-307 Wesley S. Patrick, Okmyung Bin, Kurt A. Schwabe and Peter W. Schuhmann
• Role of the Spanish scientific community in the initial assessment and management of the environmental damages caused by the Prestige oil spill  Pages 308-314 Juan Freire, Luis Fernández and Ramón Muiño
• The rise and decline of blue whiting fisheries—capacity expansion and future regulations  Pages 315-327 Dag Standal
• The demise of the small fisher? A profile of exiters from the New Zealand fishery  Pages 328-340 James Stewart, Kim Walshe and Beverley Moodie
• Vertical integration in the post-IFQ halibut fishery  Pages 341-346 Robert Dawson
• The allocation of scarce natural resources: The case of fisheries  Pages 347-356 Alf Håkon Hoel and Ingrid Kvalvik
• Concern for Southern Ocean fish stocks and bird populations  Pages 357-359 Colin Hunt
• Fleet communication to abate fisheries bycatch  Pages 360-366 Eric L. Gilman, Paul Dalzell and Sean Martin
• New Zealand seafood firm competitiveness in export markets: The role of the quota management system and aquaculture legislation  Pages 367-378 Randall Bess
• Transferability of fishing rights: The Spanish case  Pages 379-388 Fernando González Laxe
• Ocean zoning in the Northwest Atlantic  Pages 389-391 Penny A. Doherty and Mark Butler
• Developing direct shipping across the Taiwan Straits  Pages 392-399 Chih-Ching Chang, Kuang Lin and Jya-yuan Bao
• Is the European shipping industry aware of corporate social responsibility? The case of the Greek-owned short sea shipping companies  Pages 412-419 Irene Fafaliou, Maria Lekakou and Ioannis Theotokas
• The South East Regional Marine Plan: Implementing Australia's Oceans Policy  Pages 420-430 Joanna Vince
• Marine administration and spatial data infrastructure  Pages 431-441 Lisa Strain, Abbas Rajabifard and Ian Williamson
• The Western European PSSA—Testing a unique international concept to protect imperilled marine ecosystems  Pages 442-453 Markus Detjen

Energy:-

Articles from Journal title Energy Volume 31, Issues 8-9, Pages 1115-1344 (July 2006)

• Exergy analysis for resource conversion of the Chinese Society 1993 under the material product system 
  Pages 1115-1150 B. Chen and G.Q. Chen
• Alternative depreciation policies for promoting combined heat and power (CHP) development in Brazil 
  Pages 1151-1166 Jeferson Borghetti Soares, Alexandre Salem Szklo and Maurício Tiomno Tolmasquim
• Analysis of the overall energy intensity of alumina refinery process using unit process energy intensity and product ratio method  Pages 1167-1176 Liru Liu, Lu Aye, Zhongwu Lu and Peihong Zhang
• A combined power and cooling cycle modified to improve resource utilization efficiency using a distillation stage  Pages 1177-1196 S. Vijayaraghavan and D.Y. Goswami
• Simulating a combination of feebates and scrappage incentives to reduce automobile emissions  Pages 1197-1214 Todd BenDor and Andrew Ford
• Multi-criteria evaluation of cooking devices with special reference to utility of parabolic solar cooker (PSC) in India  Pages 1215-1227 S.D. Pohekar and M. Ramachandran
• Energy performance of independent air dehumidification systems with energy recovery measures 
  Pages 1228-1242 L.Z. Zhang
• Energy use pattern analyses of greenhouse vegetable production  Pages 1243-1256 M. Canakci and I. Akinci
• SPECO: A systematic and general methodology for calculating efficiencies and costs in thermal systems 
  Pages 1257-1289 Andrea Lazzaretto and George Tsatsaronis
• Market efficiency, cross hedging and price forecasts: California's natural-gas markets  Pages 1290-1304
  C.K. Woo, A. Olson and I. Horowitz
• Estimating energy requirement in cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) nut processing operations 
  Pages 1305-1320 S.O. Jekayinfa and A.I. Bamgboye
• Energetics of coal substitution by briquettes of agricultural residues  Pages 1321-1331 Pallav Purohit, Arun Kumar Tripathi and Tara Chandra Kandpal
• Passive options for solar cooling of buildings in arid areas  Pages 1332-1344 Emad H. Amer
  
  

Articles from Journal title Energy Policy Volume 34, Issue 11, Pages 1223-1318 (July 2006)
Hydrogen Edited by Raimund Bleischwitz and Katrin Fuhrmann

• Introduction to the special issue on ‘hydrogen’ in ‘Energy Policy’  Pages 1223-1226 Raimund Bleischwitz and Katrin Fuhrmann
• What governs the transition to a sustainable hydrogen economy? Articulating the relationship between technologies and political institutions  Pages 1227-1235
• Forecasts, scenarios, visions, backcasts and roadmaps to the hydrogen economy: A review of the hydrogen futures literature  Pages 1236-1250 William McDowall and Malcolm Eames
• Energy system aspects of hydrogen as an alternative fuel in transport  Pages 1251-1259 Stephan Ramesohl and Frank Merten
• Towards sustainable energy systems: The related role of hydrogen  Pages 1260-1270 Peter Hennicke and Manfred Fischedick
• Prospects for hydrogen in the German energy system  Pages 1271-1283 J.-F. Hake, J. Linssen and M. Walbeck
• Development of European hydrogen infrastructure scenarios—CO2 reduction potential and infrastructure investment  Pages 1284-1298 Martin Wietschel, Ulrike Hasenauer and Arend de Groot
• Transition to hydrogen-based transportation in China: Lessons learned from alternative fuel vehicle programs in the United States and China  Pages 1299-1309 Jimin Zhao and Marc W. Melaina
• Electricity intensity backstop level to meet sustainable backstop supply technologies  Pages 1310-1317
  Aviel Verbruggen
• Erratum to “A global survey of hydrogen energy research, development and policy”: [Energy Policy 34 (2006) 781–792] Page 1318 Barry D. Solomon and Abhijit Banerjee
  

Articles from Journal title Renewable Energy Volume 31, Issue 8, Pages 1089-1278 (July 2006)

• Assessment of flicker limits compliance for wind energy conversion system in the frequency domain 
  Pages 1089-1106 Carolina Vilar, Hortensia Amarís and Julio Usaola
• Economical and environmental analysis of grid connected photovoltaic systems in Spain  Pages 1107-1128
  José L. Bernal-Agustín and Rodolfo Dufo-López
• Performance analysis of a 3 kW grid-connected photovoltaic plant  Pages 1129-1138 Mario Cucumo, Alessandro De Rosa, Vittorio Ferraro, Dimitrios Kaliakatsos and Valerio Marinelli
• Heating and cooling potential of an earth-to-air heat exchanger using artificial neural network  Pages 1139-1155 Rakesh Kumar, S.C. Kaushik and S.N. Garg
• Investigating performance, reliability and safety parameters of photovoltaic module inverter: Test results and compliances with the standards  Pages 1157-1181 Saiful Islam, Achim Woyte, Ronnie Belmans, P.J.M. Heskes and P.M. Rooij
• Evaluation of wind energy potential and electricity generation on the coast of Mediterranean Sea in Egypt 
  Pages 1183-1202 A.S. Ahmed Shata and R. Hanitsch
• Dynamic models of wind farms with fixed speed wind turbines  Pages 1203-1230 Luis M. Fernández, José Ramón Saenz and Francisco Jurado
• An approach to the economics of two vegetable oil-based biofuels in Spain  Pages 1231-1237 M.P. Dorado, F. Cruz, J.M. Palomar and F.J. López
• Experimental investigation of forced convection and desiccant integrated solar dryer  Pages 1239-1251
  V. Shanmugam and E. Natarajan
• Prediction of direct and global solar irradiance using broadband models: Validation of REST model  Pages 1253-1263 Shah Alam
• Cooling potential of ventilated PV façade and solar air heaters combined with a desiccant cooling machine 
  Pages 1265-1278 Li Mei, David Infield, Ursula Eicker, Dennis Loveday and Volker Fux

Articles from Journal title Fuel Volume 85, Issues 10-11, Pages 1313-1604 (July-August 2006)

• Deposits on heat transfer tubes during co-combustion of biofuels and sewage sludge  Pages 1313-1322 Lars-Erik Amand, Bo Leckner, David Eskilsson and Claes Tullin
• Some temperature-sensitive properties of pure linear alkanes and n-ary mixtures  Pages 1323-1328
  D. Petitjean, J.F. Schmitt, J.M. Fiorani, V. Laine, M. Bouroukba, M. Dirand and C. Cunat
• Two-step process for synthesis of a single phase Na–A zeolite from coal fly ash by dialysis  Pages 1329-1334
  Hidekazu Tanaka, Hajime Eguchi, Satoshi Fujimoto and Ryozi Hino
• Devolatilization characteristics of large particles of tyre rubber under combustion conditions  Pages 1335-1345 Morten Boberg Larsen, Lars Schultz, Peter Glarborg, Lars Skaarup-Jensen, Kim Dam-Johansen, Flemming Frandsen and Ulrik Henriksen
• Characterization of laminar premixed methanol–air flames  Pages 1346-1353 S.Y. Liao, D.M. Jiang, Z.H. Huang and K. Zeng
• Deep desulphurization of gasoline and diesel fuels using non-hydrogen consuming techniques  Pages 1354-1363 Mohammad Farhat Ali, Abdullah Al-Malki, Bassam El-Ali, Gary Martinie and Mohammad N. Siddiqui
• Reduction of NO in the exhaust gas by reaction with N radicals  Pages 1383-1388 F. Leipold, A. Fateev, Y. Kusano, B. Stenum and H. Bindslev
• Evaluation of mercury associations in two coals of different rank using physical separation procedures 
  Pages 1389-1395 M. Antonia López-Antón, Mercedes Díaz-Somoano, Ana B. García and M. Rosa Martínez-Tarazona
• Characteristics and composition of fly ash from Canadian coal-fired power plants  Pages 1418-1427
  Fariborz Goodarzi
• A 300 W laboratory reactor system for chemical-looping combustion with particle circulation  Pages 1428-1438 Eva Johansson, Tobias Mattisson, Anders Lyngfelt and Hilmer Thunman
• Effect of coal particle size distribution on packed bed pressure drop and gas flow distribution  Pages 1439-1445 M.J. Keyser, M. Conradie, M. Coertzen and J.C. Van Dyk
• Quality analysis of automotive fuel using solvatochromic probes  Pages 1494-1497 Robert Budag, Luciano Albino Giusti, Vanderlei Gageiro Machado and Clodoaldo Machado
• Characterisation of products from pyrolysis of waste sludges  Pages 1498-1508 Tamer Karayildirim, Jale Yanik, Mithat Yuksel and Henning Bockhorn
• Mineralogy and phase transition of oil sands coke ash  Pages 1526-1534 Heemun Jang and Thomas H. Etsell
• The behaviour of phosphorus in the flue gas during the combustion of high-phosphate fuels  Pages 1541-1549
  Jens Beck and Sven Unterberger
• A clean, efficient system for producing Charcoal, Heat and Power (CHaP)  Pages 1566-1578 C. Syred, A.J. Griffiths, N. Syred, D. Beedie and D. James

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