“…As a consequence, a large number of soil extraction methods have been developed to obtain the bioavailable fraction of metals (for review, see Peijnenburg et al, 2007). Among these, the one-step extraction method of soil with 0.01 M CaCl 2 , which was proposed by Houba et al (1996), has proven to be a very useful indication of metal phytoavailability (Pueyo et al, 2004;Meers et al, 2007;Peijnenburg et al, 2007) and has been used by many different laboratories (Hodson et al, 2000;Gucwa-Przepióra et al, 2007;Menzies et al, 2007;Lopareva-Pohu et al, 2011;Vondrá cková et al, 2014). For this reason, in this study, the concentration of the phytoavailable forms of the HM in the soil samples was assessed by the extraction of 3 g of dry soil that was sifted to pass through a 2-mm sieve with 30 mL of 0.01 M CaCl 2 for 2 h at room temperature.…”