Poultry and liquid swine manure are major sources of bioactive levels of natural steroidal sex hormones, including 17β-estradiol, estrone, testosterone and progesterone. Although several detailed studies have investigated the environmental pathways and ecotoxicology of high-toxicity-at-low-concentrations of sex hormones in soil…

Ecosystem services, the benefits that people receive from ecosystems, depend on the movement of organisms and matter across landscapes, as well as the biodiversity and ecosystem functions that are present. Human activities around the world are rapidly and significantly changing…

The lack of information about the interaction of metal mixtures in soils encouraged us to improve the knowledge on the toxicity of mixtures of copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), and zinc (Zn). Risk assessors estimate the concentration of trace metals that…

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have revolutionized the development of the sophisticated resource management method known as Precision Agriculture (PA). PA involves the wise management of agricultural inputs based on knowledge of soil and plant health heterogeneity over a field, in…

There is an increasing interest in environmental benefits provided by ecosystems. Among the wide range of environmental services, hydrological services are important not only because they affect all sectors of human behavior, but because they are closely tied to other…