The effect of earthworms on copper fractionation of freshly and long-term polluted soils

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1754-1759

  Fujii, Yoshikazu ^a   Kaneko, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Bioavailability; Copper; Earthworm activity; Sequential extraction

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CARBON; COPPER; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; NITROGEN; PENTETIC ACID; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; ZINC;

ACETIC ACID; AGING; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOCHEMISTRY; COPPER; EARTHWORM; EXTRACTION METHOD; FRACTIONATION; PH; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BULK DENSITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHWORM; EXTRACTION; FRACTIONATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; COPPER; KINETICS; OLIGOCHAETA; PENTETIC ACID; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 68549122625     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2009.04.020     Document Type: Article

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