Metal redistribution by surface casting of four earthworm species in sandy and loamy clay soils

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 406, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 396-400

  Zorn, Mathilde I ^a   van Gestel, Cornelis A M ^a   Eijsackers, Herman J P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bioturbation; Earthworms; Metal contaminated soils; Surface casting rate

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; CLAY; CLAY MINERALS; CONTAMINATION; CURING; METAL CASTING; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SAND; SOIL POLLUTION; SEDIMENTATION;

BIOTURBATION; EARTHWORMS; METAL CONTAMINATED SOILS; SURFACE CASTING RATE;

SOILS; CLAY;

METAL; ORGANIC MATTER; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

BIOTIC FACTOR; CLAY LOAM; EARTHWORM; METAL; SANDY SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOTURBATION; CLAY; DRY MASS; EARTHWORM; FLOODPLAIN; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANDY LOAM; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SOIL POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; ANIMALS; METALS; OLIGOCHAETA; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AFFERDENSCHE AND DEESTSCHE WAARDEN; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; GELDERLAND; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALLOLOBOPHORA CHLOROTICA; APORRECTODEA CALIGINOSA; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS; MAMMALIA;

APORRECTODEA CALIGINOSA; BIOTURBATION; CASTING RATE; EARTHWORMS; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; METAL-CONTAMINATED SOILS; SEDIMENTATION RATES; TIME-COURSE EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 53549105249     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.07.046     Document Type: Article

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