Soil Monitoring

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Rainer Schulin, André Desaules, Richard Webster, Berchtold von Steiger

      Pages 1-4

3. Objectives, Concepts and Experiences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Papers

      1. Soil Monitoring in Switzerland by the Nabo-Network: Objectives, Experiences and Problems

         • A. Desaules

         Pages 7-24

      2. Monitoring and Control of Regional Material Fluxes

         • Hans-Peter Bader, Peter Baccini

         Pages 25-34

      3. Available Databases for Regional Mass Balances in Agricultural Land

         • B. von Steiger, J. Obrist

         Pages 35-46

   3. Reports

      1. Objectives of Long-Term Areal Soil Monitoring

         • P. Lagas

         Pages 47-48

      2. Gaps of Current Concepts in Soil Monitoring: Potential and Drawbacks of Other Concepts

         • A. Desaules, B. von Steiger

         Pages 49-52

4. Contaminant Fluxes and Mass Balances

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. Papers

      1. Contaminant Mass Balances in Soil Monitoring

         • Rainer Schulin

         Pages 55-71

      2. Atmospheric Deposition Processes

         • J. L. Collett Jr.

         Pages 73-87

      3. Filtering of Air-Borne Contaminants by Vegetation Canopies

         • R. Mayer

         Pages 89-103

      4. Volatilization of Organic Chemicals from Soil

         • William A. Jury

         Pages 105-126

      5. Monitoring of Leaching of Reactive Solutes in Heterogeneous Soils: Problems Expected from a Modelling Perspective

         • Sjoerd E. A. T. M. van der Zee, Willem Jan P. Bosma, Hans C. L. Meeussen

         Pages 127-140

      6. The Role of Soil Erosion in the Movement of Pollutants

         • J. N. Quinton, R. J. Rickson

         Pages 141-156

      7. Contaminant Uptake by Plants

         • R. Frossard

         Pages 157-178

   3. Reports

      1. Assessment of Contaminant Fluxes Through the Soil Surface

         • G. Furrer

         Pages 179-180

      2. Assessment of Contaminant Fluxes Across the Soil Plant Interface and Below the Rooting Zone

         • E. Matzner

         Pages 181-183

5. Assessing Soil Contamination

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. Papers

      1. Sampling Efficiency for Mass Recovery Calculations

         • Markus Flury

         Pages 187-199

This volume contains the proceedings of the workshop on "Soil Monitoring: Methods for Early Detection and Surveying of Soil Contamination and Degradation", held at the ETH seminar centre "Stefano Franscini" of Monte Verita, Ascona (Switzerland) from October 18 - 23, 1992. Seventy participants, representing a variety of institutions, nations, and disciplines, discussed the concepts, approaches, status, gaps, problems, and perspectives of soil pollution monitoring. The idea for this workshop came from A. Desaules when he was installing the Swiss National Soil Monitoring Network (NABO) as his doubts about the philosophy of soil monitoring prevailing at that time increased. This philosophy essentially equated soil mo­ nitoring with repetitive surveys of soil pollutant concentrations at pennanent observation sites. He sought others interested in discussing alternatives, and he found a ready partner in the ETH-Institute for Terrestrial Ecology. Soon it was realized that a discussion of the NABO would immediately raise general questions with respect to the conceptual basis of soil monitoring and that a minimum agreement on this basis was indispensable to discuss more specific problems related to the realization of the NABO. As a result, a workshop was organized whose objectives were in particular (i) an assessment of current knowledge on soil monitoring by pennanent networks, (ii) a syn­ thesis of the experience from different disciplines related to soil monitoring, (iii) the identification ofresearch gaps with respect to long-tenn and large-scale soil monitoring, and (iv) the design of a platfonn for the development of soil monitoring strategies and methodology.

• contaminants
• ecology
• emissions
• erosion
• pollution
• soil
• soil pollution

• Institut für terrestrische Ökologie, Fachbereich Bodenschutz, ETH - Eidg. Technische Hochschule, Schlieren, Schweiz

  Rainer Schulin, Richard Webster, Berchtold Steiger

• Swiss federal research station for agricultural chemistry and hygiene of environment, Liebefeld-Bern, Switzerland

  André Desaules

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