State of the Art of Triad-Based Ecological Risk Assessment: Current Limitations and Needed Implementations in the Case of Soil Diffuse Contamination

Soils can be sinks of pollutant mixtures, whose effects on terrestrial ecosystems are not obvious interpretation. Risk assessment is rather codified and many approaches used. Nevertheless, there still uncertainties remaining when dealing with diffuse pollution, including chronic inputs low, sublethal, concentrations mixtures micropollutants. In this paper, we reviewed through a comprehensive literature analysis one the latest promising methodologies, triad approach, in order to understand its area application ecosystems, ways applicability reported actual usage. case where all criteria approach differ their indication, show that some improvements have made either chemical, ecological or ecotoxicological able clearly identify risk address linked sublethal contents contaminants.