Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0455739
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Heavy metal phytotoxicity in long-term contaminated soils: Implications for the development of Australian regulatory guidelines and realistic environmental risk assessment. Heavy metal contamination is a serious global environmental problem. There are >80,000 potentially contaminated sites in Australia alone with many of these sites in the urban environment and former mining areas. The current guidelines for phytotoxicity testing (National Environmental Protection Measure 1999) are based on total metal concentrations that do not take into consideration of bioavailability and wide ranging Australian soil types. Serious concerns have been raised on the applicability of these guidelines and their protective limits in ecological risk assessment. This project aims at developing phytotoxicity guidelines applicable to a wide range of soil types common to Australia.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2005
End Date: 12-2007
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $288,080.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Soil Chemistry | Environmental Science and Management | Environmental Impact Assessment | Environmental Management And Rehabilitation
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Environmental health | Rehabilitation of degraded mining lands | Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management |
