ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT Volume 108 Nos. 1-3 September 2005 STEPHEN R. JOHNSON, LYNN E. NOEL, WILLJI. AGAZMEY and VIRGIL C. HAWKES / Aerial Monitoring of Marine Waterfowl in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea KENAN TUFEKCI and A. UNAL AKMAN / Monitoring the Turbidity and Surface Temperature Changes and Effects of the 17 August 1999 Earth- quake in the Izmit Gulf, Turkey by the Landsat TM/ETM Data S.P. PATHAK and K. GOPAL / Efficiency of Modified HS Test for Detection of Faecal Contamination in Water G. BHATTACHARYAY, A.K. SADHU, A. MAZUMDAR and PK. CHAUDHURI/ Antennal Deformities of Chironomid Larvae and Their Use in Biomonitoring of Heavy Metal Pollutants in the River Damodar of West Bengal, India V. VANDENBERGHE, P.L.M. GOETHALS, A. VAN GRIENSVEN, J. MEIRLAEN, N. DE PAUW, P. VANROLLEGHEM and W. BAUWENS / Application of Automated Measurement Stations for Continuous Water Quality Monitoring of the Dender River in Flanders, Belgium SCOTT A. STRANKO, MARTIN K. HURD and RONALD J. KLAUDA / Applying a Large, Statewide Database to the Assessment, Stressor Diagnosis, and Restoration of Stream Fish Communities 99-121 PADMA RAO, S. ANKAM, M. ANSARI, A.G. GAVANE, A. KUMAR, V.L. PANDIT and P. NEMA / Monitoring of Hydrocarbon Emissions in a Petroleum Refinery JONATHAN D. MAUL, PETER C. SMILEY, JR. and CHARLES M. COOPER / Patterns of Avian Nest Predators and a Brood Parasite Among Restored Riparian Habitats in Agricultural Watersheds MRINAL K. GHOSE, R. PAUL and R. K. BANERJEE / Assessment of the Status of Urban Air Pollution and its Impact on Human Health in the City of Kolkata 151-167 DANFENG SUN, RICHARD DAWSON, HONG LI and BAOGUO LI / Modeling Desertification Change in Mingin County, China 169-188 F. GRAEF, G. SCHMIDT, W. SCHRODER and U. STACHOW / Determining Ecoregions for Environmental and GMO Monitoring Networks 189-203 SHAN-ZHONG QI and FANG LUO / Water Environmental Degradation of the Heihe River Basin in Arid Northwestern China 205-215 K. SUVARDHAN, K. SURESH KUMAR and P. CHIRANJEEVI / Extractive Spectrofluorometric Determination of Quinalphos Using Fluorescein in 217-227 Environmental Samples O0.A. CULICOV, R. MOCANU, M.V. FRONTASYEVA, L. YURUKOVA and E. STEINNES / Active Moss Biomonitoring Applied to an Industrial Site in Romania: Relative Accumulation of 36 Elements in Moss-Bags 229-240 GORDON M. HICKEY and JOHN L. INNES / Monitoring Sustainable Forest Management in Different Jurisdictions 241-260 YILMAZ ICAGA / Genetic Algorithm Usage in Water Quality Monitoring Networks Optimization in Gediz (Turkey) River Basin 261-277 WENJUN LI, XIAODONG GE and CHUNYAN LIU / Hiking Trails and Tourism Impact Assessment in Protected Area: Jiuzhaigou Biosphere Reserve, China 279-293 C.W. WOODALL, P.L. GRAMBSCH, W. THOMAS and W.K. MOSER / Survival Analysis for a Large-Scale Forest Health Issue: Missouri Oak Decline 295-307 JAUME BECH, PEDRO TUME, LLUIS LONGAN and FERRAN REVERTER / Baseline Concentrations of Trace Elements in Surface Soils of the Torrelles and Sant Climent Municipal Districts (Catalonia, Spain) 309-322 ALICIA ACOSTA, M. LAURA CARRANZA and MICHELA GIANCOLA / Landscape Change and Ecosystem Classification in a Municipal District of a Small City (Isernia, Central Italy) 323-335 Author Index 337-338 Available .: ts i www.springerlink.com