Review of Selected Biological Methods of Assessing the Quality of Natural Environment

Jakubus, Monika; Tatuśko, Natalia

doi:10.12912/23920629/1989

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“…Seed plants are used mainly in soil ecotoxicological studies. Commonly used organisms include rice, oats, wheat, ryegrass, rapeseed, lettuce, red clover, and watercress [37,38]. Invertebrates are also used in ecotoxicological studies.…”

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Environmental Safety Assessment of Fertilizer Products

Zawadzki¹,

Głodniok²

2020

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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The danger posed by sewage sludges, although subjected to various treatment processes, contributes to the fact that fertilizers introduced into the soil pose a sanitary and ecological threat. Minimizing the risk of using fertilizers produced from sewage sludges is possible due to legal regulations, the most important of which are the Act of 26 July 2000 on fertilizers and fertilization and numerous regulations of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. Due to the fact that some parameters such as pharmaceutical substances have not been included in legal regulations, comprehensive researches on the impact of fertilizers produced from sewage sludges are justified, in particular with regard to soil, ground and water environment and also on the quality of crops. Taking into account the current legal regulations and the diverse composition of sewage sludges, full safety analysis including both biological analyses and risk assessment is necessary to perform. As part of this work, the possibilities of environmental safety assessment of fertilizer products based on stabilized municipal sewage sludges are presented. This article presents the most popular methods of sewage sludge safety analysis in the following environment: leachate, ground and surface waters, soil and plants.

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Environmental Safety Assessment of Fertilizer Products

Zawadzki¹,

Głodniok²

2020

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…Toxicological studies in which morphological changes of bioindicators are observed in contact with xenobiotics and their metabolites provide an objective assessment on the degree of threat the contaminated soils may be subjected to. Bioassays usually use bacteria, invertebrates and embryophyta as the main groups of organisms (Mankiewicz-Boczek et al, 2008;Baran and Tarnawski, 2013;Baudo et al, 2015;Jakubus and Tatuśko, 2015). For fast, repeatable and reliable bacterial tests, the microbiological risk assessment test MARA should be employed.…”

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Potential of Helianthus annuus for phytoremediation of lead, zinc, total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) contaminated soil

Kluk¹,

Steliga²

2019

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This paper describes the results regarding effectiveness of treatment of soils contaminated with heavy metals (lead, zinc), total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs): naphthalene (Nap), phenanthrene (Phe), fluoranthene (Flt), chrysene(Chr), in the process of phytoremediation carried out a laboratory scale with the plant Helianthus annuus. The reason behind the work was to investigate how plant vegetation can reduce the concentration of heavy metals in the soil and how the presence of petroleum substances and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons affect the efficiency of their removal. The analysis was based on the dynamics of cleaning the contaminated soils which contained periodic testing on physical, chemical and toxicological properties of: uncontaminated soil, soil contaminated with TPH and PAHs, soil contaminated with heavy metals, soil contaminated with heavy metals and petroleum substances. Phytoremediation of soils and its effectiveness in pot experiments was assessed based on physical and chemical soil analyses as well as five microbiotests applying organisms belonging to three trophic levels: producers (Phytotoxkit TM and Spirodela Duckweed Toxkit), consumers (Ostracodtoxkit TM) and decomposers (Microtox ® STP, MARA). The conducted research has shown that combining the results of chemical analyzes and biological tests on contaminated soils enable a real ecotoxicological assessment of environmental hazards. Six-month long phytoremediation of soils contaminated with heavy metals (Pb, Zn), and heavy metals together with petroleum substances (TPH, PAHs), yielded results in terms of a content reduction of: lead (from of 472-495 mg/ kg dry mass of soil to 226-318 mg/kg d.m.), zinc (from 998-1030 mg/kg d.m. to 520-656 mg/kg d.m.), TPH (from 4806-4824 mg/kg d.m. to 2774-3180 mg/kg d.m.) and PAH (removal rates of Nap: at 28,0-29.9%, Phe: at 25.1-27.0%, Flt: at 24-26,3%, Chr: at 14.5-18.6%). After finishing the experiment the content of lead and zinc in the plant biomass was also measured. Based on the obtained results, conclusions were made regarding issues related to usage of phytoremediation to clean contaminated soils depending on the concentration and type of toxic substance.

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Xenobiotics as a contemporary threat to surface waters

Piwowarska

Kiedrzyńska

2022

Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology

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Review of Selected Biological Methods of Assessing the Quality of Natural Environment

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Environmental Safety Assessment of Fertilizer Products

Environmental Safety Assessment of Fertilizer Products

Potential of Helianthus annuus for phytoremediation of lead, zinc, total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) contaminated soil

Xenobiotics as a contemporary threat to surface waters

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