Trace metal contamination in urban soils of China

S Yu, Y Zhu, X Li - Science of the total environment, 2012 - Elsevier
The contamination of urban soils can affect the health of people living in urban areas, and
the surrounding ecosystems. Urbanization in China has taken place at an unprecedented …

Heavy metals and soil microbes

KE Giller, E Witter, SP McGrath - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
The discovery in the early 1980s that soil microorganisms, and in particular the symbiotic
bacteria Rhizobium, were highly sensitive to heavy metals initiated a new line of research …

Vermiculture technology: earthworms, organic wastes, and environmental management

CA Edwards, NQ Arancon, RL Sherman - 2010 - books.google.com
Exploring the dramatic growth and changes in the field of vermicomposting since 1988, this
comprehensive review assesses the advancements made in government-funded projects in …

Toxicity of trace metals in soil as affected by soil type and aging after contamination: using calibrated bioavailability models to set ecological soil standards

E Smolders, K Oorts, P Van Sprang… - … and Chemistry: An …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Total concentrations of metals in soil are poor predictors of toxicity. In the last decade,
considerable effort has been made to demonstrate how metal toxicity is affected by the …

Systems toxicology approaches for understanding the joint effects of environmental chemical mixtures

DJ Spurgeon, OAH Jones, JLCM Dorne… - Science of the total …, 2010 - Elsevier
Environmental mixtures of chemicals constitute a prevalent issue in ecotoxicology and the
development of new methods to reduce the uncertainties associated with their ecological …

A terrestrial biotic ligand model. 1. Development and application to Cu and Ni toxicities to barley root elongation in soils

S Thakali, HE Allen, DM Di Toro… - Environmental …, 2006 - ACS Publications
A Terrestrial Biotic Ligand Model (TBLM) was developed using noncalcareous soils from
Europe based on Cu and Ni speciation and barley (Hordeum vulgare cv. Regina) root …

Predicting availability of mineral elements to plants with the DGT technique: a review of experimental data and interpretation by modelling

F Degryse, E Smolders, H Zhang… - Environmental …, 2009 - CSIRO Publishing
Environmental context. Total concentrations of mineral elements in soil bear little relation to
their availability for plants. The DGT (diffusive gradients in thin-films) technique has been …

Immobilization of cadmium and improvement of bacterial community in contaminated soil following a continuous amendment with lime mixed with fertilizers: a four …

L Shi, Z Guo, C Peng, X Xiao, W Feng, B Huang… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The effects of the continuous amendments with lime (L), lime mixed with organic manure
(LO), or phosphate fertilizer (LP) on the soil bacterial community, soil available cadmium …

Redox chemistry of nickel in soils and sediments: A review

J Rinklebe, SM Shaheen - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge on the redox geochemistry of Ni is behind in comparison to other heavy
metals. Hence, this article reviews the direct and indirect impact of redox potential (EH) on …

Comparative toxicity of nanoparticulate CuO and ZnO to soil bacterial communities

J Rousk, K Ackermann, SF Curling, DL Jones - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The increasing industrial application of metal oxide Engineered Nano-Particles (ENPs) is
likely to increase their environmental release to soils. While the potential of metal oxide …