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Potential Ecological Risk Assessment Model for Heavy Metal Contamination of Agricultural Soils in Mining Areas

  • LI Zeqin1 ,
  • WANG Jiangzhen ,
  • HOU Jiayu
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  • 1.State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection,Chengdu University of Technology,Chengdu 610059,China; 2.Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Nuclear Techniques in Geosciences,Chengdu University of Technology,Chengdu 610059,China; 3.Tianjin Institute of Geological Survey,Tianjin 300191,China

Received date: 2008-04-12

  Revised date: 2008-04-14

  Online published: 2008-05-10

Abstract

The aim of this work was to develop a potential ecological risk index to be used as a diagnostic tool for heavy metal contaminated agricultural soils control purposes in mining areas. Taking consideration that the main-road for ecological risk of heavy metal contamination of soil is soil-vegetation-man. The environmental bioavailability largely determines the environmental impact of metal contaminated soils. Using environmental bioavailability explain the environmental toxicity sensitivity of the heavy metals in the soil-vegetation-man ecological system. The model is following: RI=∑mi=1Eri, with Eri= Tie×Tib×Cif. RI= the requested potential ecological risk index for soil; Eri = the potential ecological risk factor for the given substance (i); Cif= the degree of contamination, Cif=Ci/Cio , Ci= the metal concentration in the soil, Cio= the metal concentration for samples from referring area; Tie= the element toxic-response factor for the given substance: Zn=1, Pb=4, Cd=15, Cu=2, Cr=11, Ni=3. Tib=(Rib / Pib1/2; Tib=the environment bioavailbability ratio factor, Tib =(Rib / Pib1/2, Rib =[water soluble fraction + exchangeable fraction/total concentration of the metal in soil](100%] for the samples of contaminated soil, Pib=[water soluble fraction + exchangeable fraction/total concentration of the metal in soil]×100%] for samples from referring area.

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LI Zeqin1 , WANG Jiangzhen , HOU Jiayu . Potential Ecological Risk Assessment Model for Heavy Metal Contamination of Agricultural Soils in Mining Areas[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2008 , 23(5) : 509 -516 . DOI: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2008.05.0509

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