Biological Methods for Assessing Potentially Contaminated Soils

Environmental Toxicity Testing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 163-205

  Spurgeon, David J ^a   Svendsen, Claus ^a   Hankard, Peter K ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Emerging' techniques with future potential; Biological approaches chemical analysis in assessment of contaminated soils; Biological methods for assessing contaminated soils; Community census analysis using macrofauna flora; Ecological indicators; Environmental toxicity testing; Lysosomal membrane stability; Microbial community profiling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889829772     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305531.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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