| Title | Assessment of the effects of soil PAH accumulation by a battery of ecotoxicological tests |
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| Publication Type | Articolo su Rivista peer-reviewed |
| Year of Publication | 2008 |
| Authors | Manzo, Sonia, De Nicola F., F. Picione De Luca, Maisto G., and Alfani A. |
| Journal | Chemosphere |
| Volume | 71 |
| Pagination | 1937-1944 |
| ISSN | 00456535 |
| Keywords | Algae, Animals, Aromatic, article, bacterium, Chemical analysis, Concentration (process), Crustacea, Daphnia, ecotoxicity, Ecotoxicological risk, Ecotoxicological test battery, ecotoxicology, Eurasia, Europe, germination, Green, Italy, Lepidium sativum, Luminescence, Motor Activity, nonhuman, PAH, phytotoxicity, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Polycyclic Hydrocarbons, Risk assessment, Sinapis, Soil PAH contamination, Soil Pollutants, Soil pollution, Soil surveys, Solutions, sorghum, Southern Europe, statistical analysis, surface soil, Toxicity, Toxicity index, toxicity test, toxicity testing, Vibrio fischeri |
| Abstract | Surface soils were collected at remote, urban and industrial sites in the Southern of Italy in order to evaluate PAH concentrations and assess the toxic effects by a battery of ecotoxicological tests. The tests were performed on whole soils and on both organic and aqueous extracts. Further goal of this study was to integrate the results coming from each test and matrix in a synthetic toxicity index. The highest ∑PAH concentrations were measured at the industrial soil, although this one did not show an high ecotoxicological risk. Among the performed tests, the phytotoxicity tests showed the highest sensitivity. For whole soil, the worst case always has been represented by test through bacteria. Our results could represent the first step toward the selection of a proper battery to characterize the soil ecotoxicological risk. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| Notes | cited By 31 |
| URL | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-42049093613&doi=10.1016%2fj.chemosphere.2007.12.026&partnerID=40&md5=10e8763fa90a610f1b97f91988ddaf81 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.12.026 |
| Citation Key | Manzo20081937 |
