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The Role of Organic Matter in the Mobility of Metals in Contaminated Catchments

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Bio-Geo Interactions in Metal-Contaminated Soils

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 31))

Abstract

We have applied a concept framework for scale-specific processes in order to characterize the role of the organic matter in the mobility of metals. At very small scale, we identified roles by immobilization of metals (immobilization in litter, immobilization in soil aggregates, dissolved organic carbon chelates in fine pores), by mobilization of metals (organochemical weathering, soluble chelates, organocolloids, free enzymatic degradation of immobile organic carbon), and by supporting the mobilization or immobilization of metals by other compartments at the same scale (energy source for microorganisms, buffering of soil solution). These roles have effects on the fluxes of metals and can be characterized at a larger scale: transfer of metals to plants and to lower soil layers by hydrological fluxes. At scales ranging from contaminated sites to watershed, we identified the same roles as above, that however up-scaled differently as a function of the site type (contaminated soil in the slope area, mining dump or tailing dam, contaminated soil in the floodplain, contaminated stream ecotone), with corresponding effects on the fluxes of metals subsoil and groundwater to surface water, on the transfer to surface water by lateral types of flows, transfer to floodplains, and volatilization (also differentiated as a function of the type of site). The literature is comprehensively screened for each case. The extent and consistency of the available scientific knowledge decrease with the increase of the system scale and complexity. Based on this analysis, multiscale biogeochemical and ecotoxicological research directions are suggested.

The contribution of the first two authors to this chapter is equal.

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Acknowledgments

This research was carried out within the Romanian Consortium for the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements with financing from National University Research Council (CNCSIS) by projects 291 and 176 – 2007 (codes ID 1006 and 965) and within the frame of European project UMBRELLA (FP7 – ENV-2008 – 1 no. 226870). Special thanks go to two anonymous reviewers for the constructive criticism, which greatly improved the manuscript.

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Neagoe, A., Iordache, V., Fărcăşanu, I.C. (2012). The Role of Organic Matter in the Mobility of Metals in Contaminated Catchments. In: Kothe, E., Varma, A. (eds) Bio-Geo Interactions in Metal-Contaminated Soils. Soil Biology, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23327-2_15

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