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Soil quality indicators in lead mining and metalurgy area. II – Mesofauna and plants

Yara Jurema Barros, Vander de Freitas Melo, Klaus Dieter Sautter, Brenda Buschle, Edilson Batista de Oliveira, Júlio César Rodrigues de Azevedo, [...]

01/Aug/2010

The influence of soil management or the contaminant application to the soil, usually induce to a quicker response in the soil mesofauna than in other pedogenic properties; these organisms are therefore good environmental quality indicators. The aim of this study was to identify and quantify the organisms groups of the soil mesofauna and determine Pb and Zn contents in plants in the mining and metallurgy plant in Adrianópolis (PR),to originate biological indicators of the quality of these solis. At the […]