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Provedor de dados: | 86
País: | Brazil
Título: | State of the science and the way forward for the ecotoxicological assessment of contaminated land
Autores: | Kuperman,Roman G.; Checkai,Ronald T.; Garcia,Marcos Vinicius Bastos; Römbke,Jörg; Stephenson,Gladys L.; Sousa,José Paulo.
Data: | 2009-08-01
Ano: | 2009
Palavras-chave: | Contamination; Ecological relevance; Ecological risk assessment; Soil pollution; Terrestrial model ecosystems; Toxicity tests.
Resumo: | Over the past two decades, soil ecotoxicologists have made strides in utilizing the basic concepts and advancements in soil zoology and ecology. They have applied the existing tools, and developed new ones to investigate how chemical contamination can affect soil ecosystems, including the degradation or destruction of soil quality and habitats or the diminishment of belowground biodiversity. Soil ecotoxicologists are applying a suite of standard protocols, originally developed as laboratory tests with single chemicals (e.g., pesticides), and further enhancing both the approaches and protocols for the assessment of contaminated lands. However, ecological relevance of some approaches remains unresolved. The authors discuss the main challenges for a coherent ecotoxicological assessment of soil ecosystems amid contaminated lands, and provide recommendations on how to integrate the effects of physical and chemical soil properties, the variations in the diversity of soil invertebrates, and the interactions among organisms of various trophic levels. The review examines new international approaches and test methods using examples from three continents (in particular research conducted in Brazil), and provides recommendations for improving ecological relevance of ecotoxicological investigations of contaminated lands.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2009000800004

Editor:

Embrapa Secretaria de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira

Relação: | 10.1590/S0100-204X2009000800004
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira  v.44 n.8 2009
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess