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About 60000 chemicals are daily used, and the number is permanent increasing. Comprehensive assesssments are needed to quantify the potential risk for ecosystems resulting from the manufacture and use of metals, metalloids and synthetic chemicals. Since toxicity is a dose-related concept, eco-toxicology of a particular contaminant depends on its source and how it becomes distributed in ecosystems. Therefore, a general research aim is the study of rates of transfer mechanisms that characterize pollutant pathways to organisms.
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Ahlf, W., Förstner, U. (1988). Toxicant Screening in Soil Using Bioassays. In: Wolf, K., Van Den Brink, W.J., Colon, F.J. (eds) Contaminated Soil ’88. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2807-7_77
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