Levels, sources and risk assessment of trace elements in wetland soils of a typical shallow freshwater lake, China

Gao, Haifeng; Bai, Junhong; Xiao, Rong; Li, Peipei; Jiang, Wei; Wang, Junjing

doi:10.1007/s00477-012-0587-8

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“…For this reason, highly toxic heavy metals pose serious ecological risks (Gao et al 2013;Khan et al 2011). Excessive accumulation of heavy metals in agricultural soil can also affect food quality and safety.…”

Section: Potential Ecological Risk (Ri)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Study of a comprehensive assessment method of the environmental quality of soil in industrial and mining gathering areas

Guan

Shao

et al. 2015

Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess

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Industrial and mining activities have been recognized as major sources of heavy metal contamination in soil. Here, we developed a comprehensive assessment method for the soil environment in industrial and mining gathering areas based on the pressure-state-response model. Using this method, we assessed the environmental quality of soil in a typical industrial and mining gathering area in Tianjin City, China. The results are as follows: (1) The comprehensive environmental quality index of the soil in the study area was 0.532, which corresponds to an alert state and shows that the soil environment is generally poor.(2) The pressure, state, and response indexes were 0.609, 0.634, and 0.163, respectively, which suggests that the pressure in the soil environment of the study area is barely acceptable, and the state is merely passable. Furthermore, the response measures are not ideal. (3) The low response index scores indicate poor production processes, low pollutant treatment level, and unsatisfactory level of management by the enterprises in the study area. (4) The distribution of soil risks was found to be inseparably related to that of contamination sources and land use types. Furthermore, the distribution was uneven to a certain degree. Finally, we propose recommendations for the optimization, adjustment, and management of typical industrial and mining gathering areas with petrochemical, metallurgy, and other heavily polluting enterprises.

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Section: Potential Ecological Risk (Ri)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Study of a comprehensive assessment method of the environmental quality of soil in industrial and mining gathering areas

Guan

Shao

et al. 2015

Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess

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“…It covers an area of 1,003.37 km 2 and has 542,000 inhabitants. It is an important cotton growth region both in the province and in China.…”

Section: Sampling and Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecological Risk Evaluation of Heavy Metal Pollution in Soil Based on Simulation

Sun

2017

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…Besides, the effects on human health and social value are also considered important parts of ecological health concept (Yuan et al 2001;Cui and Yang 2003;Hu et al 2005). To date, ecosystem health studies have been carried out on forests (Chen et al 2002;Xiao et al 2003), wetlands (Cui and Yang 2003;Jiang et al 2005), rivers (Hui et al 2011;Einheuser et al 2012;Yu et al 2014), soils (Bai et al 2011;Gao et al 2013;Huang et al 2013), grasslands (Tong et al 2009;Zhang et al 2015), lakes (Jørgensen 1995a;Zhao et al 2005;Kane et al 2009;Xu et al 2012) and urbans (Zhou and Wang 2005;Liu et al 2008;Song and Xu 2011;Zhao and Chai 2015).etc. Since the concept of ecosystem health emerged and set new goals for environmental management in 1980s, the health of lake ecosystem has socially and academically become one of the hot issues and common concerns (Xu et al 2001;Kane et al 2009;Zhang et al 2010;Xu et al 2011).…”

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Ecosystem health assessment based on DPSIRM framework and health distance model in Nansi Lake, China

Zhang

et al. 2015

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As lake ecosystem assessment is the foundation to achieve lake monitoring, environmental management and ecological restoration, a new concept of lake ecosystem health and driving force-pressure-state-impact-responsemanagement framework was proposed to find out the causal relationship of the system and health distance model was taken to represent the health level of ecosystem. An assessment indicator system comprised of water quality, ecological and socio-economic criteria was established. The evaluation models were applied for the assessment of the ecosystem health level of a typical lake, Nansi Lake, China. Depends on the values of health distance, the heath level was described as 5°: very healthy, healthy, general healthy, sub-healthy and diseased. Using field investigation data and statistic data within the theory and applied models, the results of comprehensive assessment show that: (1) the health distances of water quality indicators, ecological indicators, socio-economic indicators and comprehensive health distance were 0.3989, 0.2495, 0.4983 and 0.4362, respectively. The health level was in general healthy condition. Ecological indicators were in healthy condition, which indicate that the stability was high. The distance of water quality had shown a tendency to approach general healthy level. As the health distance of socio-economic indicators have shown a bad impact form human beings, more effective measures need to be developed. (2) The results of a case study demonstrated that the methods in this paper provide a similar result corresponding with the actual lake health condition. Therefore, this paper shows that the proposed method is efficient and worths generalization.

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Levels, sources and risk assessment of trace elements in wetland soils of a typical shallow freshwater lake, China

Cited by 87 publications

References 58 publications

Study of a comprehensive assessment method of the environmental quality of soil in industrial and mining gathering areas

Study of a comprehensive assessment method of the environmental quality of soil in industrial and mining gathering areas

Ecological Risk Evaluation of Heavy Metal Pollution in Soil Based on Simulation

Ecosystem health assessment based on DPSIRM framework and health distance model in Nansi Lake, China

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