Environmental & Agricultural Research Summaries (with Biographical Sketches): Volume 11

Part I: Researcher Biographical Sketches; Part 2: Biological Diversity & Current Threats of Lotic Ecosystems; The Science of Mapping Riparian Areas Utilizing GIS & Open Source Geospatial Data; The New Brazilian Forest Law & Its Ecological Impact on Riparian Forests: An Example Not to Be Followed; Biogeochemical Functioning of Amazonian Floodplains: The Case of Lago Grande de Curuai; An Approach to the Integrated Management of Exotic Invasive Weeds in Riparian Zones; Landscape Dynamics & Lakes Hydrology of Kerzhenets River Floodplain; Colloidal Speciation & Size Fractionation of Dissolved Organic Matter & Trace Elements in Small Subarctic Watershed & Its Riparian Zone; Barrier Function of Floodplain & Riparian Landscapes in River Runoff Formation; Dynamics of the Irtysh River Floodplain Hydrology & Vegetation in the Pavlodar Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Biogeochemistry of Organic Carbon, Major & Trace Elements in the Flooded & Riparian Zone of the Ob River; Alluvial Soils of the Ob River Floodplain & Their Significance in the Formation of Geochemical Flow from Western Siberia; Spatial Structure & Dynamics of Tom River Floodplain Landscapes Based on GIS, Digital Elevation Model & Remote Sensing; Benthic Invertebrate Community Floodplain-River System Basin Vasyugan; Dynamics of Floodplain Landscapes; Implications of the Anticipated Sea-Level Rise for the Coastal Zone of Greece: A Review; Water Quality Vulnerability in Yucatn, Mexico at the End of the Decade for Action Water for Life; Toxic & Potentially Toxic Diatom Blooms in Tunisian; Acidic Waste Rock & Tailings Remediation in Australia; Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Associated with the Massive Mortalities of Pearl Oyster Pinctada radiata at Al-Khiran Coast in Kuwait during November 2013; Microalgae Chlorella vulgaris as Biosorbent for Extraction of Metallic & Organometallic Species; Evaluation of the Utility of Chloroplast petB&D & trnK Intron in DNA Barcoding of Plant Species; Half a Century of Agrarian Reform under Threat: Climate Change & the Future of Zimbabwes Small Farm Empire; Climate Impact on Migration Processes in the Shyamnagar Region of Bangladesh; Biological Materials as Precursors for the Production of Resins; Extinction & Experience with Repatriation of Atlantic Salmon; Spider Webs as Pollution Indicators; Production of Synthetic Wastewater in Laboratory Scale; Title Growth & Development of Switchgrass Managed for Biofuel Production in the Mid-South USA: Influences of Variety, Cropping Systems, Fertilization Practices, & Site Conditions; Diagnostic of High Social Discount Rate in Developing Countries & Low Social Discount Rate in Developed Countries; Tour Guides & Ecotourism: The Mole National Park Experience in Ghana; Physical Planning Implication of Informal Sector Activities on the Built Environment of Osogbo, Nigeria; Innovative Bio-Products for Agriculture: Pig Manure Utilization & Treatment; Musa spp. - Functional Properties, Biofortification, & Bioavailability; Chemical Composition & Bioactive Compounds in Bananas & Postharvest Alterations; Banana Pseudostem Sap: An Important Agro-Waste for Diversified Applications Including Textile; Sustainable Management of Banana Waste through Renewable Energy & Bio-Fertilizer Generation; Banana as a Food Allergen Source; Organophosphorus Insecticides: Toxic Effects & Detoxification; Organophosphorus Pesticides in Agricultural Products & Potential Ways for Reduction of Their Levels Relating to Improvement of Peoples Health; Fenitrothion: Structural Features, Applications, Toxicity Mechanisms & Effects of Exposure on Human Health - A Review; Particulate Matter & Its Consequences in Ambient Air: The Current Scenario; Biochemical Modification & Changes in Antioxidant Enzymes in Triticum durum L by Seaweed Liquid Extract of Ulva rigida Macroalgae under Salt Stress Condition; PCBs Transfer in Marine Trophic Webs: From Fish to Top Predators; A Review of Community Residents & Green Community Development: A MCDM Approach; Evaluation of Energy Efficient Residential Renovations Based on Natural Environmental Factors in Taiwan; Biological Transformation among Historical Populations That Inhabited the Syrian Lower Euphrates Valley: From the Early Bronze Age to the Modern Period; Perfluoroalkylation of Organic Compounds by Photoredox Catalysis with Organic Dyes; Management & Mitigation Strategies for Herbicide-Resistant Weeds in New Zealand; Bacterial Endophytes & Plant Growth Promotion; Production, Purification & Functional Properties of Bioactive Peptides from Soybean; Wheat Germ: Protein Contents & Their Dietary Benefits; Fatty Acids, Fructans, Lipids & Lipopolysaccharides in Barley Grain & Malt; Genetic Transformation of Wheat: Current Status & Futures Challenges; Modification of Barley by Binary Acrylic Monomers & Its Applications; Adaptive Responses to Water Stress in Phalaris arundinacea, an Invasive Wetland Grass; Should I Collate or Should I Flow? Invasion of a Top Predator; Management Strategy of an Invasive Woody Plant Species through Conversion into Adsorbents for Remediation of Polluted Water; Invasive Weeds, a Serious Threat in Climate Changing Conditions & Cases of Various Management Strategies; Wind Erosion in the Dinaric Karst: An Example of the Sinjsko Polje; Analysis for Sediment Formation by Model Experiments in Karstic Depressions; Water Pollution & Genotoxicity Assessment; The Contribution of Spatial Analysis to Water Management: A Case Study of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia; Impact of Climatic Variation on Reference Crop Evapotranspiration in the North-East Hydrological Region of Bangladesh; A National Review of Land Degradation in Pakistan; Harvest Intensity of Lavender in the Mediterranean Mountains; Green Roof Installation Based on Governments, Developers & Owners Economic Perspectives; Preliminary Assessment of Secondary Contamination Associated with Food Waste Treatment; Ecophysiology of Entomopathogenic Fungi Used against Insect Pests of Storage Maize; The Role of Intercropping in Plant Biofortification; Phosphorus Dynamic in the Soil-Plant System under Different Management Practices in Semiarid Pampas; Long-Term Winter Wheat Cropping Influence on Soil Quality & Yield Stability; Gender Analysis of Cassava Farmers Climate Change Awareness & Adaptation in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria; Increased Soil Fertility in a Long-Term Rice-Oilseed Rape Cropping System & Its Potential Roles in Reducing Nitrogen Inputs & Environmental Impacts; Toxicological Tests Implemented to Evaluate the Toxicity of Alternative Textile Effluent Treatments; Exploring Marketing & Technical Challenges & Opportunities of Eco-Friendly Strategies; Improving Drinking Water Quality by Recarbonization; Improving the Management of Ecosystem Services by Means of Stakeholder Perceptions: Lessons from Three Southern European Multifunctional Irrigation Systems; Community Involvement in River Management for Ecosystem Services & Livelihood: A Case Study of Halda River in Bangladesh; Effect of Some Environmental Factors on Milk Production of Primiparous Holstein Raised in the Souss-Massa Region in Morocco; ENSO Influence over Precipitation in Argentina; Kinematics of Ice-Cores Near Divides & Inferences from Age/Depth Data; Mango: Production, Properties & Health Benefits are Approaching; Mango: Chemical Composition & Health Benefits; Recovery of Valuable Compounds from Mangifera indica L. Using High-Pressure Techniques; Studies of Mango Seed Kernels: Technological Application; Fruit Yield of Mango Irrigated with Saline Waters; Maize Fertilization, Its Agro-Ecological & Human Health Implications; Maize Protection: The Integrated Weed Management System Benefits; The Role of the Crop Rotation in Maize Agroecosystem Sustainability; Growing Techniques for Raspberry Plants Suitable for Subtropical Areas; Postharvest & Nutritional Aspects of Raspberries; Methane Emissions Arising from the Production of Edible Protein with Holstein Cattle in Northern Germany - A Detailed Analysis of Reduction Potentials; Farm Management & Feeding Strategies for Donkey Milk Production; Genetic Basis of -Casein Variants in Cow Milk & Its Role on Human Health; Organic Fertilizer Substantial Effects on Plant Nitrogen Uptake as a Result of Soil Fertility; Influence of Climate Change on Grass Phenology; Recovering Heat from Rice Hull Carbonization: Applications in Climate Smart Agriculture; Recent Advances in Biocontrol of Stored-Grain Insects Using Entomopathogenic Fungi; The Role of the Cuticle in Postharvest; Emergent Extraction Technologies to Valorize Fruit & Vegetable Residues; The Effect of Exogenous Abscisic Acid Spray on Phenolics & Scavenging Free Radical Activity of Olives During Storage; Sustainable Production of Maguey Agave salmiana to Improve the Mezcal Agroindustry Competitiveness; Cereal Arabinoxylans: Bioactive Polysaccharides & Potential Additives in Foods & Pharmaceutical Products; Biodegradation of Drugs in Agricultural Soil Amended with Sewage Sludge from Wastewater Treatment Plants: An Overview; Production of a New Biofertilizer from Shrimp Exoskeletons Using a Microwave-Assisted Alkaline Hydrolysis; Irreversibility of Deforestation; Perception & Attitude of Indigenous Population around Protected Areas & Impact on Land Cover Change: CASE study of the Bakossi National Park, Cameroon; The State of Deforestation in Zambia: Causes, Effects & Possible Solutions; Differences in Soil Carbon, Nutrients & Their FTIR Functional Groups, XRD Mineral Traits in Plantation Forests of 14 Tree Species in Northeastern China; Providing Data to Guide Environmental Health Education: Using Cross-Sectional Data from an Arsenic Biomonitoring Study to Improve Environmental Health Interventions; The Effect of Climate Change on the Distribution & Diversity of Soil Microorganisms & Their Adaptation Mechanisms; Smectite-Salt Soil Formations In Situ & Ex Situ; Development of an Automated Water Treatment System; Coastal Wetlands: Integrated Ecosystem Management Strategy using Payment of Environmental Services in the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria; Modeling Urban Dynamics, with Cellular Automata: Land Use Simulation Model of Heraklion Crete Greece; The Rhizome Oils of Cyperus distans & Cyperus rotundus: Antimicrobial & Insecticidal Activities; Visible from Above: How Satellite Imagery Can Help Investigating the Life of Insects; Priming Crops to Cope with Stress: Advances in Seed-Priming Approach; Production & Quality Improvement Systems of Vines by Green Pruning; Plant-Fungi Symbiosis Nexus to Agroecosystems Variables in Crop Production; Microbial Interactions & Biocontrol in the Rhizobacteria Bacillus; The Addition of Leonardites, an Alternative Organic Amendment to Manures, Increases Soil Available Phosphorus Levels in Vineyard Calcareous Soils; Artificial Neural Network Modeling of Sugar Beet Osmotic Dehydration; Microwave Assisted Air Drying of Sugar Beet Pulp; Changes in the Environment: Implications on Vegetation; Transformative Adaptation Under Climate & Global Change Along the Silk Road: Challenges & Potentials; Rangeland & Grassland in the Region of Former Soviet Union: Future Implications for Silk Road Countries; Conservation & Development of Medicinal Plants of Relevant Territory Along the Silk Road; Rangeland & Grassland in Inner- Mongolia, China & Its Function in Ecology & Economics of the New Silk Road; Rangelands & Grasslands in the Tibetan Plateau of China: Ecological Structure & Function at the Top of the World; Rangeland & Grassland in Gansu-Xinjiang China, & Its Function in Silk Road & Future; Rangeland & Pastureland in Iran: Potentials, Problems & Prospects; Rangeland & Pastureland in Afghanistan: Its Current Status & Future Prospects; Pakistan: Status & Perspective Functions of Rangeland Resources in a Changing World under One Belt, One Road Initiative; Rangeland & Grassland in Nepals Alpine Regions: Problems & Prospects; Rangeland & Grassland in Mongolia: Land & People in Transition; Uzbekistan-Rangelands & Pasturelands: Problems & Prospects; Rangelands & Pasturelands of Tajikistan: Problems & Prospects; Assessment of the Scale, Geographical Distribution & Diversity of Pastures Along the Kazakhstan's Part of the Route of the Great Silk Road; Transformation in Pasture Use in Kyrgyzstan: What Are the Costs of Pasture Degradation?; Turkmenistan Rangelands & Pasturelands: Problems & Prospects; Unifying Perspectives: Future Problems & Prospects for People & the Natural Resource Base on which they Depend; Managing Protected Areas in a Changing World: New Insights & Opportunities; Governing the Accessibility of Protected Areas; Shifting Paradigm of Governance in the Natural Resources Management of Bangladesh: A Centralist to Pluralistic Approach in the Forest Protected Areas Management; Conservation without Participation: Detrimental Effect of Escaping Peoples Participation in Protected Area Management in Nepal; Contested Forests: Insights from the Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary; Local Level Policies for Tourism Management in Protected Areas: Experiences from Costa Rica; Forest Protected Area Systems & Biodiversity Conservation in Bangladesh; Conversion of Native Vegetation in Protected Areas Fuels CO2-Equivalent Losses in Uganda; Vascular Plants at the Protected Areas Network of the Republic of Mordovia: Present Status & Prospects; Impact of Cyclone Sidr on Rural Communities: A Socio-Economic Analysis; Impact of the Leaf Beetle Herbivory on Ragweed; Seed Dispersal Systems in the Regeneration of Semiarid Mediterranean Forests; Adaptive Forest Management Practices Promoting Resilience of Oak Forests to Future Climate Change; Numerical Simulation of Technogenic & Climatic Influence on Permafrost; Urban Heat Island & Mitigation Solutions Evaluation in Cold Climates: A Case of Montreal; Distribution Characteristics of Permafrost in Permafrost Degradation Regions of the Lesser Khingan Mountains, China; Metal & Metalloids in Sediments from the Estuary of the Nerbioi-Ibaizabal River; Transitory Interruption of the Suess Effect during the 1990s: A 25-Year-Long Study using Tree-Ring 13C Records from Spanish Forests; Applications & Potential of Sugarcane as an Energy Crop; Humic Substances for Soil Quality & Plant Protection; Corn Production Intercropping with Urochloa brizantha in Different Production Systems; Potential of the Hydrolysates of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Fuel & Chemical Production; Characteristics & Management of Rainbow Red Kiwifruit; Importance & Methods for the Valorization of Red Raspberry, Arbutus Berry, Black Mulberry, Blueberry & Black Currant; Coping with Water Scarcity in Rice-Based Farms: Development of a Capillary Irrigation System for Small Holder Farmers in the Philippines; Advances in the Life Cycle Assessment of Biorenewable Technologies; The Life Cycle Assessments of an Optical Network Terminal & a Tablet: Experiences of the Product Environmental Footprint Methodology; Service Life, Reliability & Their Role in the Life Cycle Analysis of Concrete Structures; Land-Use Changes & Site Variables on the Soil Organic Carbon Pool: The Potential Application for the MENA Region; Characterization of Biliary Caseinolytic Proteases in Two Environmental Contamination Sentinel Fish Species with an Emphasis on Metalloproteinases; A Review of Sustainable Water Management for Pistachio; Worse Than a Tigers Grip: The Case of Household Water Supply & Sanitation Practices in Osogbo Nigeria; Corporate Reporting on Climate Change & Global Warming Issues: A Literature Survey & Agenda for Future Research; Gender Justice in International Environmental Law; Sugarcane Bagasse: Production, Composition, Properties, & Feedstock Potential; The Mexican Sugarcane Production System: History, Current Status & New Trends; Methane Emissions & Productivity Index in the Mexican Sugarcane Crop Fields; Sugarcane Fiber for Engineering Applications; Key Challenges & Trends in the Value Chain of Sugarcane Agribusiness System: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach; Sugar & Ethanol Production Process from Sugarcane; Performance of Sugarcane Processing through an Integrated Biorefinery; Foreknowledge Concerning the Effects of Straw Removal on the C-Footprint of Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol; Observations of Sugarcane & Knowledge Specificity in Traditional Hawaiian Cropping Systems.