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Toxic Element Accumulation in Soils and Crops: Protecting Soil Fertility and Agricultural Food-Chains

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Inorganic Contaminants in the Vadose Zone

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 74))

Abstract

Assessment of the likelihood of risks to crop productivity, humans, livestock, and wildlife from potentially toxic elements in sewage sludge applied to land (and other metal sources such as fertilizers, manures, and stack emissions) requires a knowledge of the potential for transfer of each element from the sludge or sludge-soil mixture to crops and to animals (including humans) which ingest sludge, sludge-soil mixtures, or crops grown on the sludge-amended soil, including the bioavailability of the element as ingested. Great progress has been made in characterizing the potential for excessive food-chain transfer of potentially toxic elements, and the risk of reducing soil fertility due to metal toxicity.

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  1. USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Soil-Microbial Systems Laboratory, B-318, BARC, Beltsville, MD, 20705, USA

    R. L. Chaney

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  1. Institute of Soils and Water, Agricultural Research Organization The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, 50250, Bet Dagan, Israel

    Bnayahu Bar-Yosef

  2. Division of Animal Production Private Bag, CSIRO, PO Wembley, 6014, Western Australia, Australia

    N. J. Barrow

  3. Environmental Engineering & Design Comp. Ltd., P.O. Box 43059, 61430, Tel Aviv, Israel

    J. Goldshmid

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Chaney, R.L. (1989). Toxic Element Accumulation in Soils and Crops: Protecting Soil Fertility and Agricultural Food-Chains. In: Bar-Yosef, B., Barrow, N.J., Goldshmid, J. (eds) Inorganic Contaminants in the Vadose Zone. Ecological Studies, vol 74. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74451-8_10

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