Soil Monitoring: Early Detection and Surveying of Soil Contamination and Degradation

Content: 
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Soil Monitoring in Switzerland by the Nabo-Network: Objectives, Experiences and Problems....Pages 7-24
Monitoring and Control of Regional Material Fluxes....Pages 25-34
Available Databases for Regional Mass Balances in Agricultural Land....Pages 35-46
Objectives of Long-Term Areal Soil Monitoring....Pages 47-48
Gaps of Current Concepts in Soil Monitoring: Potential and Drawbacks of Other Concepts....Pages 49-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Contaminant Mass Balances in Soil Monitoring....Pages 55-71
Atmospheric Deposition Processes....Pages 73-87
Filtering of Air-Borne Contaminants by Vegetation Canopies....Pages 89-103
Volatilization of Organic Chemicals from Soil....Pages 105-126
Monitoring of Leaching of Reactive Solutes in Heterogeneous Soils: Problems Expected from a Modelling Perspective....Pages 127-140
The Role of Soil Erosion in the Movement of Pollutants....Pages 141-156
Contaminant Uptake by Plants....Pages 157-178
Assessment of Contaminant Fluxes Through the Soil Surface....Pages 179-180
Assessment of Contaminant Fluxes Across the Soil Plant Interface and Below the Rooting Zone....Pages 181-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Sampling Efficiency for Mass Recovery Calculations....Pages 187-199
Analytical Problems in the Determination of Inorganic Soil Contaminants....Pages 201-218
Analytical Problems in the Determination of Organic Soil Contaminants....Pages 219-227
The Potential of Microbiological Properties as Indicators in Soil Pollution Monitoring....Pages 229-254
Magnetic Susceptibility of Soils in the Areas Influenced by Industrial Emissions....Pages 255-269
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Sampling and Analytical Techniques as Limiting Factors in Soil Monitoring....Pages 271-273
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
Sources, propagation and control of errors in soil monitoring....Pages 277-294
Dealing with Spatial Variation....Pages 295-307
Interference Between Spatial Variability and the Detection of Temporal Changes in Soils....Pages 309-328
Using GIS for Processing data from the Survey and Monitoring of Pollution....Pages 329-344
Trend Detection in Soil Monitoring — Looking for the Needle in the Haystack....Pages 345-348
Synthesis....Pages 349-358
Back Matter....Pages 359-364