ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT Volume 127 Nos. 1-3 April 2007 S. NAYAR, D.J. MILLER, A. HUNT, B.P.L. GOH and L.M. CHOU / Environmental effects of dredging on sediment nutrients, carbon and granulometry in a tropical estuary PARASCHOS MELIDIS, CHRISTOS S. AKRATOS, VASSILIOS A. TSIHRINTZIS and ELENI TRIKILI- DOU / Characterization of rain and roof drainage water quality in Xanthi, Greece KEVIN J. COLLIER, ANDY HAIGH and JOHLENE KELLY / Coupling GIS and mulitvariate approaches to reference site selection for wadeable stream monitoring HEINZ-R. KOHLER, CRISTINA SANDU, VOLKER SCHEIL, ERIKA M. NAGY-PETRICA, HELMUT SEGNER, ILIE TELCEAN, GHEORGHE STAN and RITA TRIEBSKORN / Monitoring pollution in river Mures, Romania, Part III: biochemical effect markers in fish and integrative reflection KENAN KILIC and SINAN KILIC / Spatial variability of salinity and alkalinity of a field having salination risk in semi-arid climate in northern Turkey K. SURESH KUMAR, K. SUVARDHAN, D. REKHA, K. 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CAI / Spatial analysis for spring bloom and nutrient limitation in Xiangxi bay of three Gorges Reservoir CHIA-LING CHANG, SHANG-LIEN LO and MING-YING CHEN / Uncertainty in watershed response predictions induced by spatial variability of precipitation MUSTAFA GULER, TAHSIN YOMRALOGLU and SELCUK REIS / Using landsat data to determine land use/land cover changes in Samsun, Turkey MUSTAFA SOYLAK, UMIT DIVRIKLI, SIBEL SARACOGLU and LATIF ELCI / Membrane filtration — atomic absorption spectrometry combination for copper, cobalt, cadmium, lead and chromium in environmental samples 169-176 FABIENNE PALLUAU, PHILIPPE MIRABEL and MAURICE MILLET/ Influence of relative humidity and ozone on the sampling of volatile organic compounds on carbotrap/carbosieve adsorbents 177-187 LISA M. SMITH, JAMES E. HARVEY, LINDA C. HARWELL and J. KEVIN SUMMERS / The ecological condition of Gulf of Mexico resources from Perdido Key to Port St. Joe, Florida: Part II near-shelf coastal resources 189-207 ULRICH KAMP, WALTER BINDER and KONRAD HOLZL / River habitat monitoring and assessment in Germany 209-226 JIAN GUO JIANG and YUN-FEN SHEN / Development of the microbial communities in Lake Donghu in relation to water quality 227-236 BADAR GHAURI, ARIFA LODHI and M. MANSHA / Development of baseline (air quality) data in Pakistan 237-252 CHING-HO LIN, CHIN-HSING LAI, YEE-LIN WU, HSIN-CHIH LAI and PO-HSIUNG LIN / Vertical ozone distributions observed using tethered ozonesondes in a coastal industrial city, Kaohsiung, in southern Taiwan 253-270 JANEZ SCANCAR, TEA ZULIANI, TOM TURK and RADMILA MILACIC / Organotin compounds and selected metals in the marine environment of Northern Adriatic Sea 271-282 S.S. SAWANT, L. PRABHUDESSAI| and K. 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PASSY / Community analysis in stream biomonitoring: What we measure and what we don’t 409-417 YU FAN-CHIEH, CHEN CHIEN-YUAN, LIN SHENG-CHI, LIN YU-CHING, WU SHANG-YU and CHEUNG KEI-WAI/ A web-based decision support system for slopeland hazard warning 419-428 HUI ZHANG / The orientation of water quality variation from the metropolis river-Huangpu River, Shanghai 429-434 DILMA BUDZIAK, LAMARTINE RICHARD JUNIOR, ELPIDIO BELTRAME and EDUARDO CARASEK / Monitoring the formation of trihalomethanes in the effluents from a shrimp hatchery 435-444 J. M. HOOKE / Monitoring morphological and vegetation changes and flow events in dryland river channels 445-457 K. A. JAYARAJ, K. V. JAYALAKSHMI and K. SARALADEVI / Influence of environmental properties on macrobenthos in the northwest Indian shelf 459-475 CHRISTER JOHANSSON, MICHAEL NORMAN and LARS GIDHAGEN / Spatial & temporal variations of PM10 and particle number concentrations in urban air 477-487 SHIANG-YUARN CHEN and JEN- YANG LIN / Developing a simplified river landscape assessment model: Examples from the Chungkang and Touchien rivers, Taiwan 489-502 F. M@HLENBERG, S. PETERSEN, A. H. PETERSEN and C. GAMEIRO/ Long-term trends and short-term variability of water quality in Skive Fjord, Denmark — nutrient load and mussels are the primary pressures and drivers that influence water quality RACHEL C. COPELAND, DARREN A. LYTLE and DIONYSIOS D. DIONYSIOU / Desorption of arsenic from drinking water distribution system solids SHUYU WANG and XINMIN BIAN / Synthesis evaluation with entire-array-polygon method to ecological economic system of Funing County in Jiangsu Province Author Index Available .*: WN www.springerlink.com Environ Monit Assess (2007) 127 AUTHOR INDEX OF VOLUME 127 Agard, J. B. R., 307 Girgzdys, A., 327 Akratos, C. S., 15 Gochfeld, M., 105 Are, T., 353 Goh, B.'P: L., 1 Atanassova, M. P., 383 Giiler, M., 155 Banar, M., 337 Haigh, A., 29 Bastos, R. K. X., 315 Han, M., 363 Beltrame, E., 435 Han, X. Q., 135 Bergasa, O., 127 Haroun, R. J., 127 Bian, X., 537 Harvey, J. E., 189 Binder, W., 209 Harwell, L. C., 189 Budziak, D., 435 Hernandez-Brito, J. J., 127 Burger, J., 105 Holzl, K., 209 Buttle, J. M., 399 Hooke, J. M., 445 Bycenkiene 2 Hunt, A., | Car, © H., 135 Ivanov, I. S., 383 Carasek, E., 435 Janardhanam, K., 67 Chang, C.-L., 147 Jayalakshmi, K. V., 459 Chang, S.-C., 87 Jayaraj, B., 67 Chen, M.-Y., 147 Jayaraj, K. A., 459 Chen, S.-Y., 489 Jiang, J. G., 227 Chien- Yuan, C., 419 Johansson, C., 477 Chiranjeevi, P., 67 Jordao, C. P., 315 Chou, L. M., | Collado, C., 127 Junior, L. R., 435 Collier, K. J., 29 Kamp, U., 209 Copeland, R. C., 523 Kei-Wai, C., 419 Das, M., 119 Kelly, J., 29 Diadovski, I. K., 383 Kilic, K., 55 Dilgin, Y., 389 Kilic, S., 55 Dillon, P. J., 399 Kiran, K., 67 Dionysiou, D. D., 523 K6hler, H.-R., 47 Divrikli, U., 169 Kumar, K. S., 67 Eimers, M. C., 399 Lai, C.-H., 253 Elci, L., 169 Lai, H.-C., 253 Fan-Chieh, Y., 419 Lee, C.-T., 87 Fernandes, R. B. A., 315 bs, ¥;, 79 Fontes, R. L. F., 315 Lin, C.-H., 253 Gameiro, C., 503 Lin, J.-Y., 489 Gelado-Caballero, M. D., 127 Lin, P.-H., 253 Ghauri, B., 237 Liu, H., 79 Gidhagen, L., 477 Lo, S.-L., 147 Girgzdiene, R., 327 Lodhi, A., 237 a Springer Lytle, D. A., 523 Shang- Yu, W., 419 Maheswari, S. T., 97 Shecapio-Blacksmith, J., 293 Maiti, S. K., 119 Shen, Y.-F., 227 Mansha, M., 237 Sheng-Chi, L., 419 Manson, H., 293 Singh, S., 73 Matos, A. T., 315 Smith, L. M., 189 Melidis, P., 15 Soylak, M., 169 Milagic, R., 271 Stan, G., 47 Miller, D. J., | Summers, J. K., 189 Millet, M., 177 Sun, Y., 363 Mirabel, P., 177 Suvardhan, K., 67 Mohammed, A., 307 Tang, H., 79 Mohlenberg, F., 503 Telcean, I., 47 Nagy-Petrica, E. M., 47 Triebskorn, R., 47 Nayar, S., | Trikilidou, E., 15 Norman, M., 477 Tsihrintzis, V. A., 15 Otitoloju, A. A Tsupi, L. J. S., 293 Ozkan, A., 337 Turk, T., 271 Palluau, F., 177 Turkoglu, M., 389 Passy, S. I., 409 Vanspronsen, E. P., 293 Petersen, A. H., 503 Vardar, C., 337 Petersen, S., 503 Venkat, K., 283 Prabhudessai, L., 283 Wainman, B. C., 293 Prakash, V., 73 Wang, D., 79 Rabbitskin, T., 293 Wang, S., 537 Ramesh, A., 97 Watmough, S. A., 399 Ramirez, R., 127 Wu, Y.-L., 253 Reis, S., 155 Xu, S., 363 Rekha, D., 67 eu ¥.¥., 135 Ribeiro, P. R. S., 315 Yayintas, O. T., 389 Rodriguez-Somozas, M., 127 ¥%,4.. 135 Sandu, C., 47 Yilmaz, S., 389 Saracoglu, S., 169 Yomraloglu, T., 155 Saraladevi, K., 459 Yu-Ching, L., 419 Sawant, S. S., 283 Zhang, B., 79 Séanéar, J., 271 Zhang, H., 429 Scheil, V., 47 Zuliani, T., 271 Segner, H., 47