Environmental Contamination Book

	Preface
	List of Contributors
Ch. 1	Aspects of environmental contamination
	Ethical aspects of environmental protection	1
Ch. 2	Atmospheric pollution
	Effects of air pollutants on man, animals, plants and buildings: mechanisms and dose-response effects	13
	Effects of air pollution on the condition of sessile oak forests in Hungary	23
	Long term effects of acid deposition: Implications on the performance of high level nuclear waste repositories	35
	On character of ejection of radionuclides out of earth surface	65
Ch. 3	Soils and contamination from mining uses
	Trace elements dynamics in soils and aquifers of western Switzerland	79
	Leaching behavior of granulated non-ferrous metal slags	103
	Environmental impact of mining activities on the Hermioni area, Greece	119
Ch. 4	Human impacts on soils by wastes and contaminated dredged material uses
	Beneficial and toxic effects of chromium in plants: solution culture, pot and field studies	147
	Interactive effects of the application of different Cd forms and an acidifying agent on plant available metals and postharvest soil extractability	173
	Evolution of heavy metal species in leachates and in the solid phase during composting of municipal solid wastes	187
	Effect of several industrial wastes on soil respiratory activity	217
	Long-term evaluation of plants and animals colonizing contaminated dredged material placed in upland and wetland environments	231
	Contaminated aquatic sediments and waste sites as toxic chemical time bombs	259
	The importance of biological testing in the assessment of metal contamination and site remediation	293
Ch. 5	Inland waters
	Recovery from eutrophic to oligotrophic states in lakes: role of sediments	303
	Dynamics of the autochthonous and contaminant bacterial colonization of lakes (lake of Cadagno and lake of Lugano as model systems)	323
	The role of the bacterial community in the radionuclide transfers in freshwater ecosystems	337
	Effects of plants on the accumulation of Zn, Pb, Cu and Cd in sediments of the Tagus estuary salt marshes, Portugal	355
	Studies on heavy metals of periphyton and its host plant / Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trien ex Steudel / in shallow lakes	365
	Origin and pathways of Cadmium contamination in the Gironde estuary, Garonne river and tributaries	373
Ch. 6	Synthesis and methods
	Mercury pollution and cycling in aquatic systems	391
	Analysis of Selenium	403
	Selenium occurrence and ecology	459
	Author Index	475
	Subject Index	477