urban soils
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in urban soils of an Eastern European megalopolis: distribution, source identification and cancer risk evaluation
... in urban soil may differ among areas with different land utilization types, in the following order: industrial, res- idential, ...in urban soils between studied ...
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Heavy Metals in the Urban Soils and Vegetables in Jos Metropolis, Nigeria: Implications on Children’s Health
... the urban soils and their levels in vegetables grown and consumed by residents of Jos Metropolis, with the view to drawing inferences on probable health implications on children who are the vulnerable group ...
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Spatial heterogeneity of urban soils: the case of the Beijing metropolitan region, China
... in urban soil properties as a result of land use and land cover ...the urban soil biogeochemistry is still limited, re- quiring more research to be ...of urban soils warrants a landscape ...
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Heavy Metals Concentration in Urban Soils of Fallujah City, Iraq
... the urban soils in Fallujah City in order to determine concentrations, spatial distribution and contamination assessment of heavy metals such as Cu, Zn, Ni, Pb, Ni, Fe, Mn, Cd, Co and ...in urban ...
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Evaluating the Potential of Plants (leaves) in Removal of Toxic Metals from Urban Soils (Case Study of a District in Tehran City)
... Total and bioavailable concentration of toxic metals nickel, copper, cadmium, chromium, zinc, cobalt, lead and manganese in forty one surface soil samples of a district in Tehran city are measured in this study. Except ...
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The Effect of Organic Substrates Application on the Amylolytic Activity of Urban Soils
... The urban soils in Poland are the least stud- ied group of soils [Niedbała et al ...[2000], urban soils are easily de- graded because of a low content of humus and organic matter, low ...
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Enzyme activities of urban soils under different land use in the Shenzhen city, China
... of urban soils under two land-uses in the central built-up area of the Shenzhen city were investigated, and multivariate analysis was used to study the relationship between soil enzymes and soil ...
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A Study on the Effect of Soil Amendments and Environmental Conditions of Stevia Rebaudiana In Urban Soils of Buenos Aires, Argentina
... of urban soils , they occur mainly in cities and industrial areas, presenting artificial soils with surface ...The urban land has tripled since 2000, this determines the relevance to focus the ...
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Restoring native ecosystems in urban Auckland: urban soils, isolation, and weeds as impediments to forest establishment
... typically urban soils of all sites were highly modified, with substantial variation in compaction, ponding risk, and fertility over distances of 5–15 ...in urban landscapes will be valuable as seed ...
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Technosols and other proposals on urban soils for the WRB (World Reference Base for Soil Resources)
... t. Urban soils are defined as soils which are severely influenced by various human activities, but not only by ...These soils have assumed particular significance because they extend over ...
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CHANGES THE CONCENTRATION OF SELECTED PAHs IN URBAN SOILS FERTILIZED WITH MUNICIPAL SEWAGE SLUDGE
... in urban soils fertilized with municipal sewage ...the urban soil does not exceed those contained in the Regulation of the Minister of the Environment of September 9 th , 2002 on soil quality ...
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Using Local Moran's I to identify contamination hotspots of rare earth elements in urban soils of London
... enter soils, they can be transported to ground water, accumulate in the soil surface, and then enter humans through ingestion, dermal contact or inhalation (Abrahams, 2002; Meza- Figueroa el ...in soils and ...
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Filter properties of seam material from paved urban soils
... The seam material shows a neutral soil reaction with an av- erage pH of 7.1 (SD=0.2, N=17), which is typical for urban soils. It is most likely caused by concrete abrasions from buildings (Burghardt, 1994). ...
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Assessment on the Degree of Immobilization of Heavy Metals in Contaminated Urban Soils by Selected Phosphate Rocks of Different Particle Sizes
... in soils (Tandy et ...in soils for decades or even centuries. The contamination of soils by metals can have long-term environmental and health implications (Leštan et ...
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Use of Sequential, Single and Kinetic Extractive Schemes to Assess Cadmium (Cd) and Lead (Pb) Availability in Vietnamese Urban Soils
... Many works employed extractive schemes to assess trace elements availability and accessibility in soils for many years. These extractive schemes are generally used separately. This paper deals with the comparison ...
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Fractionation of potentially toxic elements in urban soils from five European cities by means of a harmonised sequential extraction procedure
... Levels of extractable chromium (Figure 2) varied markedly between cities; from an average of 13.2 mg kg -1 in Aveiro to an average of 227 mg kg -1 in Torino. The high concentrations in the latter city are, at least ...
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Predicting trace metal solubility and fractionation in urban soils from isotopic exchangeability
... Figure 6 ： The first column shows fractionation by isotopic exchange into labile and non-labile metal (Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn) as a % of total soil metal content in MA (n=23) and Urban (n=50) soils, grouped ...
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Anthropogenic share of metal contents in soils of urban areas
... In the present investigation, Weight Pair Group (WPG) method was used to bring out cluster analysis. Fig. 3 depicts the dendrogram of cluster analysis. The dendrogram consists of four clusters namely a, b, c and d. In ...
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A Framework for Site Assessment Guides for Urban Impacted Soils: A Vancouver Case Study
... of urban soils, overview of Vancouver’s soils, potential sources of urban soil contamination, logistics of soil sampling and laboratory analyses, and interpretation of soil ...reclaiming ...
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ABSTRACT : Naturally soils are formed by weathering of parent rock. These soils are generally subjected to drying
... conditions soils are subjected to drying ...of soils depend upon the temperature, evaporation rate, humidity, ...some soils mainly in fine- grained soils (clayey ...clayey soils (Black ...
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