[Farmland]
[Farmland; Beijing, China]
Toxicants; Irregation with waste and effluents from industrial plants.
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Eisenia fetida (ref. ID; 6746)
[Coal gasification plant: Quebec, Canada]
Toxicants; PAHs-contaminated soil.
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Eisenia fetida (ref. ID; 6906)
[Road: Brussels, Belgium]
Toxicants; Effect of Urbanization (Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn).
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Allolobophora chlorotica (ref. ID; 5994)
Oligochaeta: Aporrectodea caliginosa (ref. ID; 5994)
Oligochaeta: Aporrectodea icterica (ref. ID; 5994)
Oligochaeta: Aporrectodea rosea (ref. ID; 5994)
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus castaneus (ref. ID; 5994)
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus rubellus (ref. ID; 5994)
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus terrestris (ref. ID; 5994)
[Road: Scotland, UK]
Toxicants; Cd, Cu, Pb, Fe
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Allolobophora chlorotica (ref. ID; 1433)
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus rubellus (ref. ID; 1433)
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus terrestris (ref. ID; 1433)
[Soil: Northeast China]
Toxicants; Total and methyl mercury. The study area is the Huludao City, a heavily polluted region by chlor-alkali and nonferrous metal smelting industry.
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta; Allolobophora sp., Drawida sp., and Limnodrilus sp. (ref. ID; 6933)
[Grain field; Tikkurila, Finland]
Toxicants; Old lead smelter.
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Aporrectodea caliginosa (ref. ID; 5996)
Oligochaeta: Aporrectodea icterica (ref. ID; 5996)
Oligochaeta: Dendrobaena octaedra (ref. ID; 5996)
Oligochaeta: Dendrodrilus rubidus (ref. ID; 5996)
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus castaneus (ref. ID; 5996)
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus rubellus (ref. ID; 5996)
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus terrestris (ref. ID; 5996)
[Nord-Pas-de-Calais; France]
Toxicants; Wastes and dust emissions from the metallurgical industry (Pb and Zn smelter).
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Aporrectodea caliginosa (ref. ID; 4639)
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus rubellus (ref. ID; 4639)
[Soil: Southern France]
Toxicants; Cd, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn.
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: community (ref. ID; 6893)
[The Netherlands]
Samling sites; Moderately contaminated (Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn) sites (site codes see Janssen et al. (1997). (Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 16, 2470-2478)
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Eisenia andrei (ref. ID; 6842, 6857)
Oligochaeta: Enchytraeus crypticus (ref. ID; 6783)
[Breaker's yard in Doetinchem, The Netherlands]
Sampling site; Cu, Pb and Zn contaminated.
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Dendrobaena veneta (ref. ID; 6851)
[Glassland: The Dutch Kempen region, The Netherlands]
Toxicants; Zinc-smelting complex (Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn).
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus rubellus (ref. ID; 5989)
[Ultramafic soil: In the Barberton area (Mpumalamga, South Africa)]
Sampling site; Kaapsehoop Chrysotile Mine (Kaapsehoop 1-3), Barberton Nature Reserve, Agnes Mine, Songimvelo Nature Reserve.
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Aporrectodea caliginosa (ref. ID; 6688)
Oligochaeta: Eisenia fetida (ref. ID; 6688)
[Forest soil: Sweden]
Toxicants; Brass mill (smelter and foundry). Major elements emitted from the mill are zinc and copper (ca. 98% of emitted metals) and to a less degree lead and cadmium.
Test organisms; soil animal community (ref. ID; 6848)
[The Cefn Parc Pb and Zn-mine, South Wales, UK]
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Allolobophora chlorotica (ref. ID; 5992)
Oligochaeta: Aporrectodea caliginosa (ref. ID; 5992)
Oligochaeta: Aporrectodea longa (ref. ID; 5992)
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus rubellus (ref. ID; 5992)
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus terrestris (ref. ID; 5992)
[The deposition plume: Avonmouth, South West England, UK]
Toxicants; Primary Cd, Pb, and Zn smelter.
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus rubellus (ref. ID; 5978, 6743)
[The vicinity of the Avonmouth smelting works, UK]
Toxicants; Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Eisenia fetida (ref. ID; 6834, 6864)
[Devon Great Consols; UK]
Toxicants; Abandoned copper and arsenic mine (As).
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Dendrodrilus rubidus (ref. ID; 4481)
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus rubellus (ref. ID; 4481, 6909, 6912)
[Disused non-ferrous metalliferous mines, UK]
Toxicants; Diverse anthropogenic sources (Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn).
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus rubellus (ref. ID; 5984, 5991, 5998)
Oligochaeta: Dendrodrilus rubidus (ref. ID; 5991, 5998)
[Metalliferous sites in the United Kingdom]
Toxicants; Seven sites are disused mines: Shipham, Cwmystwyth, Weymyss, Llatrisant, Charterhouse and Glenridding.
One site was on the perimeter of a lead-zinc smelter, Avonmouth.
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Eisenia fetida (ref. ID; 6750)
[Pasture: Severnside, UK]
Toxicants; Industrial smelting complex (Cd, Pb, Zn).
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Allolobophora caliginosa (ref. ID; 5997)
Oligochaeta: Allolobophora chlorotica (ref. ID; 5997)
Oligochaeta: Allolobophora longa (ref. ID; 5997)
Oligochaeta: Allolobophora rosea (ref. ID; 5997)
Oligochaeta: Allolobophora tuberculata (ref. ID; 5997)
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus terrestris (ref. ID; 5997)
[Frongoch (Aberystwyth, Dyfed, Wales): Ystwyth (Ystwyth Valley, Dyfed, Wales): Shipham (Shipham, Somerset, England): Broek Polder (Rotterdam, Holland), UK]
Toxicants; Zn, Cu, Cd, Pb
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Allolobophora caliginosa (ref. ID; 6850)
Oligochaeta: Allolobophora chlorotica (ref. ID; 6850)
Oligochaeta: Allolobophora longa (ref. ID; 6850)
Oligochaeta: Eisenia foetida (ref. ID; 6850)
Oligochaeta: Lumbricus terrestris (ref. ID; 6850)
[The Tri-State mining region, USA]
Sampling site; The area were conducted large-scale mining operations from the mid-1800s to the 1950s.
Toxicants; Pb, Zn, Cd
Test organisms;
Oligochaeta: Eisenia fetida (ref. ID; 6818)