1. Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy)

   • Nicola Cardellicchio
   • Stefano Covelli
   • Tamara Cibic

   Editorial 18 May 2016 Pages: 12491 - 12494

2. The Mar Piccolo of Taranto: an interesting marine ecosystem for the environmental problems studies

   • Nicola Cardellicchio
   • Cristina Annicchiarico
   • Lucia Spada

   Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 26 June 2015 Pages: 12495 - 12501

   

3. Coastal hydrogeological system of Mar Piccolo (Taranto, Italy)

   • L. E. Zuffianò
   • A. Basso
   • M. Polemio

   Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 24 July 2015 Pages: 12502 - 12514

   

4. Estuarine circulation in the Taranto Seas

   • Francesca De Pascalis
   • Antonio Petrizzo
   • Luca Zaggia

   Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 26 September 2015 Pages: 12515 - 12534

   

5. On the geotechnical characterisation of the polluted submarine sediments from Taranto

   • Claudia Vitone
   • Antonio Federico
   • Francesco Todaro

   Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 24 February 2016 Pages: 12535 - 12553

   

6. Sediment pollution and dynamic in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (southern Italy): insights from bottom sediment traps and surficial sediments

   • Luca Giorgio Bellucci
   • Daniele Cassin
   • Roberto Zonta

   Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 27 April 2016 Pages: 12554 - 12565

   

7. Oxygen, carbon, and nutrient exchanges at the sediment–water interface in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea, southern Italy)

   • Cinzia De Vittor
   • Federica Relitti
   • Andrea Emili

   Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 09 July 2015 Pages: 12566 - 12581

   

8. Mobility of heavy metals from polluted sediments of a semi-enclosed basin: in situ benthic chamber experiments in Taranto’s Mar Piccolo (Ionian Sea, Southern Italy)

   • Andrea Emili
   • Alessandro Acquavita
   • Nicola Cardellicchio

   Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 04 September 2015 Pages: 12582 - 12595

   

9. Metals and PCB levels in some edible marine organisms from the Ionian Sea: dietary intake evaluation and risk for consumers

   • Santina Giandomenico
   • Nicola Cardellicchio
   • Antonella Di Leo

   Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 04 September 2015 Pages: 12596 - 12612

   

10. Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) anaerobic degradation in marine sediments: microcosm study and role of autochthonous microbial communities

    • Bruna Matturro
    • Carla Ubaldi
    • Simona Rossetti

    Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 11 July 2015 Pages: 12613 - 12623

    

11. Microbenthic community structure and trophic status of sediments in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Mediterranean, Ionian Sea)

    • F. Rubino
    • T. Cibic
    • M. Rogelja

    Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 29 October 2015 Pages: 12624 - 12644

    

12. Benthic ecosystem functioning in the severely contaminated Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea, Italy): focus on heterotrophic pathways

    • A. Franzo
    • R. Auriemma
    • P. Del Negro

    Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 15 September 2015 Pages: 12645 - 12661

    

13. Environmental monitoring in the Mar Grande basin (Ionian Sea, Southern Italy)

    • Francesca De Serio
    • Michele Mossa

    Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 17 June 2015 Pages: 12662 - 12674

    

14. Recent evolution of the physical–chemical characteristics of a Site of National Interest—the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea)—and changes over the last 20 years

    • Martina Kralj
    • Cinzia De Vittor
    • Paola Del Negro

    Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 26 August 2015 Pages: 12675 - 12690

    

15. Phytoplankton dynamics with a special emphasis on harmful algal blooms in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea, Italy)

    • Carmela Caroppo
    • Federica Cerino
    • Tamara Cibic

    Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 25 July 2015 Pages: 12691 - 12706

    

16. ‘End to end’ planktonic trophic web and its implications for the mussel farms in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea, Italy)

    • Ana Karuza
    • Carmela Caroppo
    • Paola Del Negro

    Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 24 October 2015 Pages: 12707 - 12724

    

17. Food web of a confined and anthropogenically affected coastal basin (the Mar Piccolo of Taranto) revealed by carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes analyses

    • Lucia Bongiorni
    • Federica Fiorentino
    • Jacques Grall

    Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 18 September 2015 Pages: 12725 - 12738

    

18. Ecosystem functioning approach applied to a large contaminated coastal site: the study case of the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea)

    • Tamara Cibic
    • Lucia Bongiorni
    • Paola Del Negro

    Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 11 July 2015 Pages: 12739 - 12754

    

19. Ecotoxicological effects of sediments from Mar Piccolo, South Italy: toxicity testing with organisms from different trophic levels

    • Elisa Costa
    • Veronica Piazza
    • Francesca Garaventa

    Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 01 October 2015 Pages: 12755 - 12769

    

20. Biochemical and lysosomal biomarkers in the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis from the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea, Southern Italy)

    • Vanessa Moschino
    • Luisa Da Ros

    Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 11 July 2015 Pages: 12770 - 12776

    

21. Mobilization of trace metals and PCBs from contaminated marine sediments of the Mar Piccolo in Taranto during simulated resuspension experiment

    • Antonella Di Leo
    • Cristina Annicchiarico
    • Lucia Spada

    Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 06 October 2015 Pages: 12777 - 12790

    

22. The non-indigenous Paranthura japonica Richardson, 1909 (Isopoda: Anthuroidea: Paranthuridae) from the Mar Piccolo lagoon, Taranto (Italy, Mediterranean Sea)

    • Maurizio Lorenti
    • Erica Keppel
    • Davide Tagliapietra

    Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 16 July 2015 Pages: 12791 - 12796

    

23. Activities and vectors responsible for the biological pollution in the Taranto Seas (Mediterranean Sea, southern Italy): a review

    • E. Cecere
    • A. Petrocelli
    • F. Rubino

    Integrated environmental characterization of the contaminated marine coastal area of Taranto, Ionian Sea (southern Italy) - the RITMARE Project 17 July 2015 Pages: 12797 - 12810

    

24. A critical review of the development, current hotspots, and future directions of Lake Taihu research from the bibliometrics perspective

    • Yunlin Zhang
    • Xiaolong Yao
    • Boqiang Qin

    Trend Editorial 18 May 2016 Pages: 12811 - 12821

    

25. Proposal for management and alkalinity transformation of bauxite residue in China

    • Shengguo Xue
    • Xiangfeng Kong
    • Yiwei Li

    Review Article 29 March 2016 Pages: 12822 - 12834

    

26. Status of hormones and painkillers in wastewater effluents across several European states—considerations for the EU watch list concerning estradiols and diclofenac

    • P. Schröder
    • B. Helmreich
    • G. Mascolo

    Review Article Open access 29 March 2016 Pages: 12835 - 12866

    

27. Eco-environmental impact of inter-basin water transfer projects: a review

    • Wen Zhuang

    Review Article 14 May 2016 Pages: 12867 - 12879

    

28. Oil exploitation and its socioeconomic effects on the Niger Delta region of Nigeria

    • Z. A. Elum
    • K. Mopipi
    • A. Henri-Ukoha

    Review Article 18 May 2016 Pages: 12880 - 12889

    

29. Effects of additional fermented food wastes on nitrogen removal enhancement and sludge characteristics in a sequential batch reactor for wastewater treatment

    • Yongmei Zhang
    • Xiaochang C. Wang
    • Jialing Tang

    Research Article 18 March 2016 Pages: 12890 - 12899

    

30. Effect of temperature on the release and remobilization of ecotoxic elements in AMD colloidal precipitates: the example of the Libiola copper mine, Liguria, (Italy)

    • S. Consani
    • C. Carbone
    • G. Lucchetti

    Research Article 18 March 2016 Pages: 12900 - 12914

    

31. Concentration, sources, and flux of dissolved organic carbon of precipitation at Lhasa city, the Tibetan Plateau

    • Chaoliu Li
    • Fangping Yan
    • Mika Sillanpää

    Research Article 18 March 2016 Pages: 12915 - 12921

    

32. Two-year stability of immobilization effect of sepiolite on Cd contaminants in paddy soil

    • Xuefeng Liang
    • Yi Xu
    • Rong Huang

    Research Article 18 March 2016 Pages: 12922 - 12931

    

33. Antioxidant enzymes status and reproductive health of adult male workers exposed to brick kiln pollutants in Pakistan

    • Sarwat Jahan
    • Samreen Falah
    • Naveed Rauf

    Research Article 21 March 2016 Pages: 12932 - 12940

    

34. Geochemistry and environmental threats of soils surrounding an abandoned mercury mine

    • Jaume Bori
    • Bettina Vallès
    • Maria Carme Riva

    Research Article 21 March 2016 Pages: 12941 - 12953

    

35. Analysis of sulfonamides in soil, sediment, and sludge based on dynamic microwave-assisted micellar extraction

    • Hui Wang
    • Jie Ding
    • Nanqi Ren

    Research Article 21 March 2016 Pages: 12954 - 12965

    

36. The effect of anaerobic–aerobic and feast–famine cultivation pattern on bacterial diversity during poly-β-hydroxybutyrate production from domestic sewage sludge

    • Changli Liu
    • Di Liu
    • Min Zhao

    Research Article 21 March 2016 Pages: 12966 - 12975

    

37. Adsorption of Cd(II) by two variable-charge soils in the presence of pectin

    • Ru-hai Wang
    • Xiao-fang Zhu
    • Yuan-chun Yu

    Research Article 21 March 2016 Pages: 12976 - 12982

    

38. Effects of extraction methods and factors on leaching of metals from recycled concrete aggregates

    • Janile O. Bestgen
    • Bora Cetin
    • Burak F. Tanyu

    Research Article 21 March 2016 Pages: 12983 - 13002

    

39. Investigating the removal of some pharmaceutical compounds in hospital wastewater treatment plants operating in Saudi Arabia

    • Hamed Al Qarni
    • Philip Collier
    • Joseph Akunna

    Research Article Open access 21 March 2016 Pages: 13003 - 13014

    

40. Albendazole in environment: faecal concentrations in lambs and impact on lower development stages of helminths and seed germination

    • Lukáš Prchal
    • Radka Podlipná
    • Barbora Szotáková

    Research Article 21 March 2016 Pages: 13015 - 13022

    

41. Physiological and transcriptional responses of Nitrosomonas europaea to TiO₂ and ZnO nanoparticles and their mixtures

    • Ran Yu
    • Junkang Wu
    • Huijie Lu

    Research Article 21 March 2016 Pages: 13023 - 13034

    

42. 4-Nitrophenol induces activation of Nrf2 antioxidant pathway and apoptosis of the germ cells in rat testes

    • Yonghui Zhang
    • Yun Cao
    • ChunMei Li

    Research Article 21 March 2016 Pages: 13035 - 13046

    

43. Keystone indices probabilistic species sensitivity distribution in the case of the derivation of water quality criteria for copper in Tai Lake

    • Jun Hou
    • Qianyuan Zhao
    • Chenglian Feng

    Research Article 21 March 2016 Pages: 13047 - 13061

    

44. Sustainable treatment of different high-strength cheese whey wastewaters: an innovative approach for atmospheric CO₂ mitigation and fertilizer production

    • Ana R. Prazeres
    • Javier Rivas
    • Fátima Carvalho

    Research Article 21 March 2016 Pages: 13062 - 13075

    

45. Nutrients, heavy metals and phthalate acid esters in solar greenhouse soils in Round-Bohai Bay-Region, China: impacts of cultivation year and biogeography

    • Zhiqun Chen
    • Tian Tian
    • Yongqiang Tian

    Research Article 21 March 2016 Pages: 13076 - 13087

    

46. Chemical characteristics of rainwater in Sichuan basin, a case study of Ya’an

    • Yun-Chun Li
    • Meng Zhang
    • Xiao-Qing Zhao

    Research Article 22 March 2016 Pages: 13088 - 13099

    

47. Heavy metals in road dust from Xiandao District, Changsha City, China: characteristics, health risk assessment, and integrated source identification

    • Fei Li
    • Jingdong Zhang
    • Guangming Zeng

    Research Article 22 March 2016 Pages: 13100 - 13113

    

48. Effects of returning NF concentrate on the MBR-NF process treating antibiotic production wastewater

    • Kun Li
    • Yutao Cheng
    • Yuansong Wei

    Research Article 22 March 2016 Pages: 13114 - 13127

    

49. Contamination and human health risk of lead in soils around lead/zinc smelting areas in China

    • Kai Lei
    • Elisa Giubilato
    • Chunye Lin

    Research Article 22 March 2016 Pages: 13128 - 13136

    

50. Spatial distribution and temporal trends of farmland soil PBDEs: processes and crop rotation effects

    • Xingchun Jiao
    • Qifeng Tang
    • Yongliang Yang

    Research Article 23 March 2016 Pages: 13137 - 13146