Earthworm biomass as additional information for risk assessment of heavy metal biomagnification: A case study for dredged sediment-derived soils and polluted floodplain soils

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 363-375

  Vandecasteele, Bart ^a   Samyn, Jurgen ^a   Quataert, Paul ^a   Muys, Bart ^b   Tack, Filip M G ^c  

^a Ministry of the Flemish Community   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alluvial; Colonisation; Earthworms; Landfills; Risk

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DREDGING; ECOSYSTEMS; HEAVY METALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENTS;

EARTHWORMS; ECOLOGICAL RISK;

SOIL POLLUTION;

HEAVY METAL;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMASS; EARTHWORM; HEAVY METAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; EARTHWORM; FLOODPLAIN; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS, HEAVY; OLIGOCHAETA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TIME FACTORS;

PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 1542269117     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2003.12.007     Document Type: Article

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