Accumulation and environmental risk assessment of heavy metals in soil and plants of four different ecosystems in a former polymetallic ores mining and smelting area (Slovakia)
Jazyk angličtina Země Anglie, Velká Británie Médium print-electronic
Typ dokumentu časopisecké články
- Klíčová slova
- Environmental contamination, Slovakia, heavy metals, mining, risk assessment, smelting,
- MeSH
- ekosystém MeSH
- hodnocení rizik MeSH
- hornictví * MeSH
- hutnictví * MeSH
- látky znečišťující půdu analýza farmakokinetika MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- monitorování životního prostředí metody MeSH
- půda chemie MeSH
- těžké kovy analýza farmakokinetika MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Slovenská republika MeSH
- Názvy látek
- látky znečišťující půdu MeSH
- půda MeSH
- těžké kovy MeSH
Heavy metals (Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn) in soils and plants of four different ecosystems (forest, grassland, agro and urban ecosystem) at different distances from the source of the pollution were analyzed in order to assess and compare soil contamination in the various ecosystems and determine the potential accumulation of plants depending on the place they inhabit. Correlation relationships among heavy metals in soils differ depending on the ecosystem, and between soil and plant, the heavy metals showed significant correlation for Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn. Contamination factor (Cf), degree of contamination (Cd) and pollution load index (PLI) were used in order to determine the level of environmental contamination of the study area. All studied ecosystems were rated as moderately contaminated (except agroecosystem, which was found as low contamination ecosystem) according to Cd and extremely polluted according to PLI. The highest pollution in both cases was found in urban ecosystem, and Cd, Cu and Fe were determined as the biggest pollutants.
b Department of Chemistry Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra Nitra Slovak Republic
Department of Ecology University of Prešov Prešov Slovak Republic
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