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Soil bioassay: Problems and approaches

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The methodological and organizational problems of the practical application of soil bioassay to monitor the state of soils for environmental, agricultural, and sanitary-epidemiological purposes are analyzed. To improve the efficiency of the integral valuation of soil toxicity, soil bioassay should be performed with a set of organisms (sensors) representing the major trophic levels of the ecosystems, i.e., producers, consumers, and decomposers.

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  2. Faculty of Soil Science, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Terekhova, 2011, published in Pochvovedenie, 2011, No. 2, pp. 190–198.

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Terekhova, V.A. Soil bioassay: Problems and approaches. Eurasian Soil Sc. 44, 173–179 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229311020141

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