• Crab Bioturbation and Seasonality Control Nitrous Oxide Emissions in Semiarid Mangrove Forests (Ceará, Brazil) 

  Otero Pérez, Xosé Lois; Araújo Júnior, José M. C.; Barcellos, Diego; Queiroz, Hermano M.; Romero, Danilo J.; Nóbrega, Gabriel Nuto; Siqueira Neto, Marcos; Ferreira, Tiago Osório (MDPI, 2020)

  Seasonality and crab activity affects the nutrients and physicochemical parameters in mangrove soils, thus, affecting the emissions of greenhouse gases, such as nitrous oxide (N2O). Climate change may intensify rainfall ...

• Monitoring of Natural Pigments in Henna and Jagua Tattoos for Fake Detection 

  Rubio Lareu, Laura; Lores Aguín, Marta; García Jares, Carmen María (MDPI, 2020)

  Temporary tattoos are a popular alternative to permanent ones. Some of them use natural pigments such as lawsone in the famous henna tattoos. Recently, jagua tattoos, whose main ingredients are genipin and geniposide, have ...

• Tracking Bacterial Spoilage in Cosmetics by a New Bioanalytical Approach: API-SPME-GC-MS to Monitor MVOCs 

  Celeiro Montero, María; Varela, Esther; Rodríguez, Rocío; Penedo, Manuel; Lores Aguín, Marta (MDPI, 2020)

  The main goal of this work was the use of the powerful solid-phase microextraction-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (SPME-GC-MS) technique to unequivocally identify microbial volatile organic compounds (MVOCs) derived ...

• Heavy Metal Uptake of Lettuce and Ryegrass from Urban Waste Composts 

  Paradelo Núñez, Remigio; Villada Pillado, Antía; Barral Silva, María Teresa del Carmen (MDPI, 2020)

  Interest in using urban waste composts as amendments in urban agriculture is growing nowadays. However, concerns about the potential transference of pollutants present in urban waste to the food chain are very relevant ...

• Utilization of Composts for Adsorption of Methylene Blue from Aqueous Solutions: Kinetics and Equilibrium Studies 

  Paradelo Núñez, Remigio; Al-Zawahreh, Khaled; Barral Silva, María Teresa del Carmen (MDPI, 2020)

  Utilization of composts as low-cost adsorbents is an important application in the field of environmental remediation, but these materials have not yet been extensively used for dye removal. In this work, we have studied ...

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