Environmental fate and ecotoxicity of lanthanides: Are they a uniform group beyond chemistry?

Environment International

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 148-157

  Gonzalez, Veronica ^a   Vignati, Davide A L ^a   Leyval, Corinne ^a   Giamberini, Laure ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Ecotoxicity; Environment; Lanthanides

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCANDIUM; SOIL TESTING; TOXICITY;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; ECOTOXICITY; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENT; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REES); TERRESTRIAL ORGANISMS; TERRESTRIAL SYSTEMS;

RARE EARTH ELEMENTS;

LANTHANIDE;

AQUATIC ORGANISM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; POLLUTION EFFECT; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCANDIUM; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TOXICITY; YTTRIUM;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOTOXICITY; LAND BIOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL ORGANISM;

ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENT; LANTHANIDES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; LANTHANOID SERIES ELEMENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL;

EID: 84904360656     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2014.06.019     Document Type: Review

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