The contamination of urban soils can affect the health of people living in urban areas, and
the surrounding ecosystems. Urbanization in China has taken place at an unprecedented …

Since their introduction in the late 1970s, sequential extraction procedures have
experienced a rapid increase in use. They are now applied for a large number of potentially …

Soil quality (SQ) assessment has long been a challenging issue, since soils present high
variability in properties and functions. This paper aims to increase the understanding of SQ …

We conducted an investigation to identify the sources of metals in urban surface soils, and to
assess the associated human health risks, around the Tanggu chemical industrial district …

Soil pollution by lead, zinc, cadmium and copper was characterized in the mine tailings and
surrounding soils (arable and pasture lands) of an old Spanish Pb–Zn mine. Sixty soil …

A comprehensive review of the single and sequential extraction schemes for metal
fractionation in environmental samples such as soil and industrially contaminated soils …

Modified biochars, including magnetic biochars, have been tested in water for the removal of
inorganic pollutants. However, at present it is unknown if they possess benefits over …

Abstract As a Nature-Based Solution, urban forests deliver a number of environmental
ecosystem services (EESs). To quantify these EESs, well-defined, reliable, quantifiable and …

Urban soils are an essential element of the city environment. However, studies on urban
soils are scattered in terms of geographical distribution, sampling pattern, analytical dataset …

Metal contents in bulk soil samples are commonly used to assess contamination but metal
accumulations in soils are known to increase with decreasing particle size. We investigated …