The main directions of using biotesting to assess the environmental risk of pollution—(a)
predictive (predicting possible effects of chemicals and determining safe levels of their use) …

Soils can be sinks of pollutant mixtures, whose effects on terrestrial ecosystems are not of
obvious interpretation. Risk assessment is rather codified and many approaches can be …

Agricultural land is often located close to highly urbanised/industrialised areas and is
subject to continuous anthropogenic pressure associated with the emission of many …

The aim of the study was ecological risk assessment (ERA) of the agricultural soils located in
the vicinity of the highly industrialized area and exposed to different emission sources of …

The Russian soil quality assessment system, where the guideline values for the content of
heavy metals and metalloids derived for arable lands (mostly, in terms of the general …

Urban parks provide a range of ecosystem services and support a healthy urban
environment. Soils are directly involved in biogeochemical cycles and maintenance of …

We compared the advantages of eluate and direct soil bioassay methods to reveal the
overall toxicity of contaminated soils in a case study with (i) Eutric Fluvisols contaminated …

This work is dedicated to developing enzyme biosensor software to solve problems
regarding soil pollution analysis. An algorithm and specialised software have been …

Biological organisms, used as test objects in pollution tests may be as good, or even more
so, in detecting soil contamination, than chemical analyses. In this study, we used five …

The aim of this study was to assess the ecological state of the soil of a megalopolis (St.
Petersburg) located in the North-West of the Russian Federation using bioassay in order to …