Comparison of elemental contents in earthworm cast and soil from a mercury-contaminated site (Idrija area, Slovenia)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 430, Issue , 2012, Pages 28-33

  Teršič, Tamara ^a   Gosar, Mateja ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Earthworm casts; Environmental geochemistry; Idrija area; Mercury; Soil contamination

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATED AREAS; EARTHWORM CASTS; ELEMENTAL CONTENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY; HG CONCENTRATIONS; IDRIJA AREA; RESEARCH GRID; SLOVENIA; SOIL CONTAMINATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; STRONG CORRELATION;

CALCINATION; CONTAMINATION; MERCURY (METAL); SOILS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ELEMENT; MERCURY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPERSION; EARTHWORM; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SAMPLING; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISPERSION; EARTHWORM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SLOVENIA; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERCURY; MINING; OLIGOCHAETA; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SLOVENIA; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

IDRIJA; SLOVENIA;

EID: 84861129181     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.04.062     Document Type: Article

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