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Environmental Impacts at PeerJ

Assessment and management of impacts of human activities and natural events (e.g. earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis) on the environment.

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Elemental pollution and risk assessment of soils and Gundelia tournefortii in a multi-sector industrial zone with a history of agricultural use
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Qu Chen, Tianwen Song, Jingjing Kong, Jingjing Zhang, Lei Zhu, Hailong Li, Yizhe Wang, Di Xiao, Tingting Tang, Haili Zhang, Zichu Zhao, Qingli Zhang
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Estuarine bivalve metabolic response mediated by environmental drivers
Orlando Lam-Gordillo, Emily J. Douglas, Sarah F. Hailes, Andrew M. Lohrer
Investigation of spatiotemporal evolution and driving mechanisms of carbon sources and sinks in dry-hot valleys under extreme climate events: a case study of the Nu River dry-hot valley
Haojun Sun, Shaoyun Zhang, Shanshan Liu, Liping Zhang

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24 November 2025
Elemental pollution and risk assessment of soils and Gundelia tournefortii in a multi-sector industrial zone with a history of agricultural use
Ayşenur Özuysal, Fariborz Fadaeivash, Görkem Akıncı
Occurrence, composition, sources, and ecological-health risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Chinese water bodies: a review
Qu Chen, Tianwen Song, Jingjing Kong, Jingjing Zhang, Lei Zhu, Hailong Li, Yizhe Wang, Di Xiao, Tingting Tang, Haili Zhang, Zichu Zhao, Qingli Zhang

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Combining UAV-based hyperspectral imagery and machine learning algorithms for soil moisture content monitoring
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The use of biochar in animal feeding
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PeerJ Expert Curations: Molecular Ecology
Anthropogenic Impact on Microbe-Host Diversity in the Global South
6th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity: WCMB 2023
World Seagrass Day 2023
The State of Active Seagrass Conservation and Restoration
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