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Author:   Rainer Schulin ,  Andre Sesaules ,  Richard Webster ,  Berchtold Von Steiger
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Weight:   0.885kg
ISBN:  

9783764329563

ISBN 10:   3764329564
Pages:   364
Publication Date:   October 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Soil Monitoring in Switzerland by the NABO-Network: Objectives, Experiences and Problems.- Monitoring and Control of Regional Material Fluxes.- Available Databases for the Assessment of Regional Mass Balances in Agricultural Land.- Objectives of Long-term Areal Soil Monitoring.- Gaps of Current Concepts in Soil Monitoring; Potential and Drawbacks of Alternative Concepts.- Contaminant Mass Balances in Soil Monitoring.- Atmospheric Deposition Processes.- Filtering of Air-borne Contaminants by Vegetation Canopies.- Volatilization of Organic Chemicals from Soil.- Monitoring of Leaching of Reactive Solutes in Heterogeneous Soils: Problems Expected from a Modelling Perspective.- The Role of Soil Erosion in the Movement of Pollutants.- Contaminant Uptake by Plants.- Assessment of Contaminant Fluxes across the Soil Surface.- Assessment of Contaminant Fluxes across the Soil Plant Interface and below the Rooting Zone.- Sampling Efficiency for Mass Recovery Calculations.- Analytical Problems in the Determination of Inorganic Soil Contaminants.- Analytical Problems in the Determination of Organic Soil Contaminants.- The Potential of Microbiological Properties as Indicators in Soil Pollution Monitoring.- Magnetic Susceptibility of Soils in the Areas Influenced by Industrial Emissions.- Sampling and Analytical Techniques as Limiting Factors in Soil Monitoring.- Sources, Propagation and Control of Errors in Soil Monitoring.- Dealing with Spatial Variation.- Interference Between Spatial Variability and the Detection of Temporal Changes in Soils.- Using GIS for Processing Data from the Survey and Monitoring of Pollution.- Trend Detection in Soil Monitoring - Looking for the Needle in the Haystack.- Synthesis.- List of Participants.

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