Different mechanisms were noted for the impact of microplastics on plant performance, such as serving as root barriers, changing soil microbial structure and metabolism, accumulating in plants, regulating the response of plants to microplastic contamination, etc. Such effects could occur separately or co...
Because the area has a history of soil contamination from a former metal smelter, soil testing is provided by the City. Most gardening is done in raised beds, and the mate- rials to construct the beds are provided by the City. Gardeners are also given topsoil amended with biosolids and ...
In the Muencheberg Soil Quality Rating, the weighted sum of the basic indicators is multiplied with values for hazard indicators such as contamination, acidification and flooding (Mueller et al., 2014). Instead of deriving an overall soil quality index, colour coding for different indicators alone...
Soil and Sediment Contamination. 2005;14:1-11 9. Graham MC, Oliver IW, MacKenzie AB, Ellam RM, Farmer JG. Mechanisms controlling lateral and vertical pore-water migration of depleated uranium (DU) at two UK weapons testing sites. Science of the Tot...
Heavy metal contamination of soil habitats is extremely dangerous to humans and other living things in the ecosystem. The presence of even low amounts of heavy metals in soils has been discovered to have major repercussions due to their exceedingly poisonous nature Hence, the use of microorganisms...
Recently, model-based geostatistics, Sequential Gaussian Simulation (SGS) and Sequential Indicator Simulation (SIS) have also been used to predict and map soil contamination, and alternative approaches are to use the bayesian maximum entropy (BME)24 (D.J.Bus et al., 2008), spatial copula method...
9/15/2014 - Lead contamination and various other types of pollution have plagued Philadelphia for decades. Dating back to the 1800s, the densely populated city served as a home to a booming industrial district, ripe with a variety of manufacturers including textile mills, chemical factories, ...
necessary to achieve less than the cumulative human- health cancer and non-cancer risk levels for industrial workers, and, as an added safety factor, remove all soil in the area, zero to two feet below the surface of the ground where PCB contamination is greater than 25 parts per million...
Groundwater (GW) constitutes the most important source of drinking water, and despite the benefit of pesticides in food production, the contamination of GW by biologically active pesticides at unacceptable levels should be avoided. A number of pesticides
Horta A, Malone B, Stockmann U, Minasny B, Bishop TFA, McBratney AB, Pallasser R, Pozza L (2015) Potential of integrated field spectroscopy and spatial analysis for enhanced assessment of soil contamination: a prospective review. Geoderma 241:180–209 Article Google Scholar Hubrechts L, Fey...