HEAVY METALS IN URBAN PARK SOILS FROM ATHENS, GREECE

Urban Growth Prediction in Athens, Greece, Using Artificial Neural Networks

Urban areas have been expanded throughout the globe. Monitoring and modelling urban growth have become a necessity for a sustainable urban planning and decision making. Urban prediction models are important tools for analyzing the causes and consequences of urban land use dynamics. The objective of this research paper is to analyze and model the urban change, which has been occurred from 1990 t...

Mercury in the Urban Topsoil of Athens, Greece

The present study documents the Hg content in 45 urban topsoil samples from the highly urbanized city of Athens, Greece. The Hg concentrations were quantified by applying aqua regia digestion on the <100 μm soil fraction followed by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) with a detection limit of 5 μg·kg−1. The median concentration of Hg in Athens soil is 96 μg·kg−1; ten out of 4...

Immobilization of heavy metals in contaminated soils

Selena Montinaro, Alessandro Concas, Massimo Pisu, Sarah Fadda, Alberto Cincotti and Giacomo Cao Centro Interdipartimentale di Ingegneria e Scienze Ambientali (CINSA) and Cagliari Laboratory of Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale “La Chimica per l’Ambiente” (INCA), Via San Giorgio 12, 09123 Cagliari, Italy. CRS4, Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Developement in Sardinia Parco Scient...

Heavy Metals in Mosses and Soils

Bacterial Community DNA Extracted from Soils Polluted with Heavy Metals

This paper describes the application of two direct and one indirect methods for the extraction of microbial community DNA from soils polluted with heavy metals. DNA was extracted directly from soil using a gentle method based on soil incubation at 37°C with proteinase K and SDS, or the method was modified by the addition of a bead beating step. The indirect approach was based on the RNA/DNA ext...