DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1065/jss2002.06.043
--- For the assessment of contaminated or remediated
soils, aside from chemical analyses, ecotoxicological tests are
performed which focus on the retention function of soils (determined
by tests with aqueous soil extracts) and on the habitat
function (determined by tests with soil). Whereas numerous tests
exist as standardized guidelines for identifying the effect of chemicals,
this is not the case for the assessment of soil quality. A
round-robin test was performed to monitor the comparability
of the results from ecotoxicological test methods on soils and to
facilitate the standardization of corresponding test methods. Four
contaminated soils were tested using a total number of fifteen
test systems, including ecotoxicological and genotoxicological
tests with soil extracts and soil. In the second part of this publication
series, the results obtained from the tests with soil microorganisms
and soil fauna are presented. |
