Metals in urban soils of Europe: A systematic review

H Binner, T Sullivan, MAK Jansen… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Metal contamination of soils is widespread across Europe and is of great concern as it may
impact food production, the supply of drinking water and human health (European …

Oral bioaccessibility of PTEs in soils: A review of data, influencing factors and application in human health risk assessment

M Billmann, C Hulot, B Pauget, R Badreddine… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the behavior of metal (loi) ds transported from soil to humans is critical for
human health risk assessment (HHRA). In the last two decades, extensive studies have …

Levels and health risk assessments of heavy metals in urban soils in Dongguan, China

S Wu, S Peng, X Zhang, D Wu, W Luo, T Zhang… - Journal of Geochemical …, 2015 - Elsevier
Human body may be directly exposed to heavy metals in urban soils through oral ingestion,
dermal contact, and inhalation of soil particles. A total of 170 topsoil samples were collected …

Geochemical baseline establishment and ecological risk evaluation of heavy metals in greenhouse soils from Dongtai, China

K Tian, B Huang, Z **ng, W Hu - Ecological indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
Currently, heavy metal (HM) contamination in greenhouse soils is a significant concern due
to the rapid expansion of greenhouse agriculture. However, it is difficult to accurately assess …

Spatial variations, health risk assessment, and source apportionment of soil heavy metals in the middle Yellow River Basin of northern China

F Liu, X Wang, S Dai, J Zhou, D Liu, Q Hu… - Journal of Geochemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ecological and environmental problems in the Yellow River Basin of northern China
have attracted widespread research attention. This study focused on the soil heavy metals …

[HTML][HTML] Discovering hidden spatial patterns and their associations with controlling factors for potentially toxic elements in topsoil using hot spot analysis and K-means …

H Xu, P Croot, C Zhang - Environment International, 2021 - Elsevier
The understanding of sources and controlling factors of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in
soils plays an important role in the improvement of environmental management. With the …

Foliar uptake and metal (loid) bioaccessibility in vegetables exposed to particulate matter

TT **ong, T Leveque, A Austruy, S Goix… - Environmental …, 2014 - Springer
At the global scale, high concentrations of particulate matter (PM) enriched with metal (loid)
s are currently observed in the atmosphere of urban areas. Foliar lead uptake was …

Arsenic and chromium topsoil levels and cancer mortality in Spain

O Núñez, P Fernández-Navarro… - … Science and Pollution …, 2016 - Springer
Spatio-temporal cancer mortality studies in Spain have revealed patterns for some tumours
which display a distribution that is similar across the sexes and persists over time. Such …

Environmental and health impacts of fine and ultrafine metallic particles: assessment of threat scores

S Goix, T Lévêque, TT **ong, E Schreck… - Environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
This study proposes global threat scores to prioritize the harmfulness of anthropogenic fine
and ultrafine metallic particles (FMP) emitted into the atmosphere at the global scale.(Eco) …

The single component geochemical map: Fact or fiction?

JM McKinley, K Hron, EC Grunsky, C Reimann… - Journal of Geochemical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Single component geochemical maps are the most basic representation of spatial elemental
distributions and commonly used in environmental and exploration geochemistry. However …