A contribution towards the risk assessment of soils from the Sao Domingos Mine (Portugal): chemical, microbial and ecotoxicological indicators
| Autor: | Paula Alvarenga, Amarilis de Varennes, A.C. Cunha-Queda, Patrícia Palma |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Mina de São Domingos (Portugal)
Eisenia fetida Bioavailability Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Daphnia magna Ecotoxicology Toxicology Risk Assessment Mining Soil Metals Heavy Animals Soil Pollutants Bioassay Ecotoxicity Oligochaeta Soil Microbiology Risk assessment Trace elements Portugal biology General Medicine Contamination biology.organism_classification Pollution Mine soils Trace Elements Daphnia Environmental chemistry Soil water Indexação ISI Environmental science Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC)-FCT-Sociedade da Informação instacron:RCAAP Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) |
| Popis: | Available at SciVerse ScienceDirect This study is a contribution towards a risk assessment of the São Domingos Mine area (Portugal), integrating information from: soil physicochemical characteristics, pseudo-total and bioavailable trace elements (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn), ecotoxicological evaluation, and microbial indicators. The bioassays using soil eluates (seed germination, luminescent inhibition of Vibrio fischeri and Daphnia magna immobilization) confirmed the soil toxicity categorization obtained with the bioassays using soil (plant growth tests, Eisenia fetida mortality and avoidance behaviour). However, the soil identified as the most toxic using bioassays, was different from the expected when considering the results from pseudototal and effective bioavailable trace elements. Taking in consideration the observations, it is highly recommended to complement the results from environmental chemistry with results from bioassays, in order to provide a more complete and relevant information on the bioavailability of contaminants and to characterize the risk of contaminated soils. |
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