Ecological Risk Assessment of Contaminants in Soil

Abstract

1st ed. Proceedings of a workshop held in Papendal, Arnhem, Netherlands, 2-5 October 1994. "An Initiative of the SERAS network. Supported by the Netherlands Integrated Soil Research Programme." Ecological approaches in soil ecotoxicology / Nico M. van Straalen, Hans Løkke -- Scientific basis for extrapolating results from soil ecotoxicity texts to field conditions and the use of bioassays / Cornelis A.M. van Gestel -- Is it possible to develop microbial test systems to evaluate pollution effects on soil nutrient cycling? / John Dighton -- Ecotoxicology, biodiversity and the species concept with special reference to springtails (Insecta : Collembola) / Stephen P. Hopkin -- Effects of toxicants on population and community parameters in field conditions, and their potential use in the validation of risk assessment methods / Leo Posthuma -- Linking structure and function in marine sedimentary and terrestrial soil ecosystems : implications for extrapolation from the laboratory to the field / Thomas L. Forbes, Liv K. Kure -- A food-web approach to assess the effects of distrubance on ecosystem structure, function and stability / John C. Moore, Peter C. de Ruiter -- Scale dependency in the ecological risks posed by pollutants : is there a role for ecological theory in risk assessment? / Paul C. Jepson -- Dispersal, heterogeneity, and resistance : challenging soil quality assessment / Göran Bengtsson -- The use of models in ecological risk assessment / Joke van Wensem -- A physiologically driven mathematical simulation model as a tool for extension of results from laboratory tests to ecosystem effects / Jøorgen Aagaard Axelsen -- Extrapolation of laboratory toxicity results to the field : a case study using the OECD artificial soil earthworm toxicity test / David J. Spurgeon -- Life-table study with the springtail Folsomia candida (Willem) exposed to cadmium, chlorpyrifos and triphenyltin hydroxide / Trudie Crommintuijn [and others] -- Reaction norms for life-history traits as the basis for the evaluation of critical effect levels of toxicants / Jan E. Kammenga [and others] -- Estimating fitness costs of pollution in iteroparous invertebrates / Ryszard Laskowski -- Soil ecotoxicology : still new ways to explore or just paving the road? / Herman Eijsackers.