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In random samples of soil taken from five Alabama counties, only 3 of 46 soil samples contained methyl parathion. The concentration in these samples was <0.1 ppm (Albright et al. 1974). Aspartofthe National Soils Monitoring Program, soil and crop samples from 37 states were analyzed for methyl parathion during 1972. Methyl parathion was detected in only 1 soil sample, at a concentration of <0.1 ppm and taken from South Dakota, out of 1,246 total samples taken from the 37 states (Carey et al. 1979). In soil and sediment samples collected from a watershed area in Mississippi, methyl parathion was not detected in the soil samples. In three wetland sediment cores, however, measurable concentrations of methyl parathion were detected during application season (Cooper 1991). 

Watersheds are sinks for atmospheric Hg deposition (Grigal 2002). However, they are highly variable in their ability to retain inputs of total Hg (THg), convert ionic Hg (Hg(ll)) to bioavailable methylmercury (MeHg), and snpply Hg(II) and MeHg to downstream aqnatic ecosystems, ultimately influencing exposure to sensitive biota and hnmans. 

Hg(0), PHg, RGHg), wet deposition, throughfall, and litterfall, as discussed in the program to determine total ecosystem deposition (see Section 2.2.8). A summary of the measurements of Hg species that should be made in an intensive watershed Hg monitoring program is provided in Table 2.4. We envision that stream water measurements of total and dissolved THg and total and dissolved MeHg would also be made. 

Babiarz CL, Hurley JP, Benoit JM, Shafer MM, Andren AW, Webb DA. 1998. Seasonal influences on partitioning and transport of total and methylmercury in rivers from contrasting watersheds. Biogeochemistry 41 237-257. 

The Ebro River basin is located in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula, occupying a total surface of 85,362 Km2. Most of the watershed surface area is in Spanish territory, but small parts drain in Andorra and in France (445 km2 and 502 km2, respectively). The Ebro River is the largest hydrographic basin in Spain, accounting for 17.3% of its total surface area. 

The Ebro watershed has a large surface area (85,000 km2) and a complex drainage network (a total of 347 streams). The Ebro is a relatively well known river from the point of view of the biological communities composition. Studies exist on the aquatic fauna and flora [3]. However, the functional activity of the river is largely unknown, mostly because of its complexity and associated technical difficulties. This chapter provides a state-of-the art of the who is who in the biological communities in the river, as well as considerations about the threats imposed by habitat deterioration, eutrophication, pollution and species invasions, and indicates the current gaps that still exist in the knowledge of the river. 

Atmospheric deposition is an important source of mercury for surface waters and terrestrial environments that can be categorized into two different types, wet and dry depositions. Wet deposition during rainfall is the primary mechanism by which mercury is transported from the atmosphere to surface waters and land. Whereas the predominant form of Hg in the atmosphere is Hg° (>95%), is oxidized in the upper atmosphere to water-soluble ionic mercury, which is returned to the earth s surface in rainwater. In addition to wet deposition of Hg in precipitation, there can also be dry deposition of Hg°, particulate (HgP), and reactive gaseous mercury (RGM) to watersheds [9-11]. In fact, about 90% of the total Hg input to the aquatic environment is recycled to the atmosphere and less than 10% reaches the sediments [12]. By current consensus, it is generally accepted that sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB)... 

Mulliken s conference in 1952 was a "watershed," marking the coming of age of the discipline of quantum chemistry, which Mulliken equally freely called chemical physics. 141 Coulson wrote a friend that "all the experts will be there, though the total number is limited to twenty-five."142 In fact, it was mostly an American group, joined by Coulson, Lennard-Jones, W. Moffit, and M. P. Barnett from England, Masao Kotani from Tokyo, and P. O. Lowdin from Uppsala. 

Watkinson AT, Murby EJ, Kolpin DW, Costanzo SD (2009) The occurrence of antibiotics in an urban watershed from wastewater to drinking water. Sci Total Environ 407 2711-2723... 

Acidification of acid-sensitive waters is accompanied by severe changes in biological communities. Effects range from reductions in diversity without changes in total biomass to elimination of all organisms. In many cases the immediate cause of the changes is unknown. Some effects are the result of H" toxicity itself or of the toxicity of metals mobilized from the watershed, others have more indirect causes such as changes in predator-prey interactions or in physical conditions of lakes (ex. transparency). [14]... 

Braun HE, Frank R. 1980. Organochlorine and organophosphorus insecticides their use in eleven agricultural watersheds and their loss to stream waters in southern Ontario, Canada, 1975-1977. Science of the Total Environment 15 169-192. 

Figure 1. A simplified watershed nitrogen cycle, with major pathways (arrows) and their effects on the watershed hydrogen budget (numbers in circles) shown. Circled numbers represent the number of hydrogen ions transferred to the soil solution or surface water ( +1) or from the soil solution or surface water (-l)for every molecule of N03 or NH4 + that follows a given pathway. For example, nitrification follows the pathway for NH4 + assimilation into microbial biomass ( + l) and is leached out as N03 ( + 1), for a total hydrogen ion production of +2 for every molecule of N03 produced.

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