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A Systematic Review and Characterization of the Major and Most Studied Urban Soil Threats in the European Union
2024
Binner, Hannah | Wojda, Piotr | Yunta, Felipe | Breure, Timo | Schievano, Andrea | Massaro, Emanuele | Jones, Arwyn | Newell, Jennifer | Paradelo, Remigio | Popescu Boajă, Iustina | Baltrėnaitė-Gedienė, Edita | Tuttolomondo, Teresa | Iacuzzi, Nicolò | Bondi, Giulia | Zupanc, Vesna | Mamy, Laure | Pacini, Lorenza | de Feudis, Mauro | Cardelli, Valeria | Kicińska, Alicja | Stock, Michael, J | Liu, Hongdou | Demiraj, Erdona | Schillaci, Calogero | University College Cork (UCC) | European Commission - Joint Research Centre [Ispra] (JRC) | Queen's University [Belfast] (QUB) | Universidade de Santiago de Compostella (USC) | Geological Institute of Romania, Bucureşti, Romania | Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas ; Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas | Università degli studi di Palermo - University of Palermo | Crops, Environment and Land Use Programme ; Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority | Ecologie fonctionnelle et écotoxicologie des agroécosystèmes (ECOSYS) ; AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | Laboratoire de géologie de l'ENS (LGENS) ; Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris ; École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) ; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) ; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) | University of Bologna | Polytechnic University of Marche [Ancona, Italy] / Università Politecnica delle Marche [Ancona, Italia] (UNIVPM) | AGH University of Science and Technology [Krakow, PL] (AGH UST) | Trinity College Dublin | Centre for planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University | Agricultural University of Tirana
International audience | There is an urgent need by the European Union to establish baseline levels for many widespread pollutants and to set out specific levels for these under the Zero pollution action plan. To date, few systematic reviews, superseded by bibliometric analyses, have explored this issue. Even less research has been carried out to compare the efficacy of these two data extraction approaches. This study aims to address these two issues by i) constructing an inventory of the available information on urban soils, highlighting evidence gaps and measuring compliance with the Zero pollution action plan, and by ii) comparing the methods and results of these two data extraction approaches. Through Scopus and Web of Science databases, peer-reviewed articles using the terms urban soil in combination with specific urban soil threats and/or challenges were included. Notably, both approaches retrieved a similar number of initial articles overall, while the bibliometric analysis removed fewer duplicates and excluded fewer articles overall, leaving the total number of articles included in each approach as: 603 articles in the systematic review and 2372 articles in the bibliometric analysis. Nevertheless, both approaches identified the two main urban soil threats and/or challenges to be linked to soil organic carbon and/or heavy metals. This study gives timely input into the Zero pollution action plan and makes recommendations to stakeholders within the urban context.
Show more [+] Less [-]Hydrocarbons in size-fractionated plankton of the Mediterranean Sea (MERITE-HIPPOCAMPE campaign)
2023
Guigue, Catherine | Tesán-onrubia, Javier Angel | Guyomarc'H, Léa | Bănaru, Daniela | Carlotti, François | Pagano, Marc | Chifflet, Sandrine | Malengros, Deny | Chouba, Lassaad | Tronczynski, Jacek | Tedetti, Marc
Aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (AHs and PAHs, respectively) were analyzed in the dissolved fraction (<0.7 μm) of surface water and in various particulate/planktonic size fractions (0.7–60, 60–200, 200–500 and 500–1000 μm) collected at the deep chlorophyll maximum, along a North-South transect in the Mediterranean Sea in spring 2019 (MERITE-HIPPOCAMPE campaign). Suspended particulate matter, biomass, total chlorophyll a, particulate organic carbon, C and N isotopic ratios, and lipid biomarkers were also determined to help characterizing the size-fractionated plankton and highlight the potential link with the content in AHs and PAHs in these size fractions. Ʃ28AH concentrations ranged 18–489 ng L−1 for water, 3.9–72 μg g−1 dry weight (dw) for the size fraction 0.7–60 μm, and 3.4–55 μg g−1 dw for the fractions 60–200, 200–500 and 500–1000 μm. AH molecular profiles revealed that they were mainly of biogenic origin. Ʃ14PAH concentrations were 0.9–16 ng L−1 for water, and Ʃ27PAH concentrations were 53–220 ng g−1 dw for the fraction 0.7–60 μm and 35–255 ng g−1 dw for the three higher fractions, phenanthrene being the most abundant compound in planktonic compartment. Two processes were evidenced concerning the PAH patterns, the bioreduction, i.e., the decrease in concentrations from the small size fractions (0.7–60 and 60–200 μm) to the higher ones (200–500 μm and 500–1000 μm), and the biodilution, i.e., the decrease in concentrations in plankton at higher suspended matter or biomass, especially for the 0.7–60 and 60–200-μm size fractions. We estimated the biological pump fluxes of Ʃ27PAHs below 100-m depth in the Western Mediterranean Sea at 15 ± 10 ng m−2 day−1, which is comparable to those previously reported in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean.
Show more [+] Less [-][Atmospheric pollution measurement in France]
1994
Herz, O. (Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maitrise de l'Energie, Paris (France)) | Stroebel, R. | Sommer, M.