PMID- 18541285
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20081003
LR  - 20220408
IS  - 0045-6535 (Print)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 72
IP  - 9
DP  - 2008 Jul
TI  - Mercury in soils of three agricultural experimental stations with long-term 
      fertilization in China.
PG  - 1274-8
LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.04.052 [doi]
AB  - Mercury (Hg) in the agricultural ecosystem is a global concern because of its 
      high potential toxicity. The objectives of this study were to determine the 
      concentration and distribution of Hg in soils from three long-term experimental 
      stations, i.e., Taoyuan (TY) and Qiyang (QY) in Hunan Province and Fengqiu (FQ) 
      in Henan Province of China, and thus to assess the possible food and health risk 
      of long-term applications of fertilizers. Soil samples at each site were 
      collected from different fertilization plots and also from soil profiles with 
      depths 0-100 cm. There were significant differences in soil Hg concentrations in 
      0-20 cm (A) or 20-40 cm (B) horizon among the three experimental stations. QY 
      station showed significantly higher Hg concentrations than TY and FQ stations. 
      However, there were no significant differences in soil Hg concentrations between 
      A and B horizons at each station. It was concluded that the soil Hg 
      concentrations at the three sites were mainly controlled by the parent materials. 
      Moreover, chemical fertilizer, especially phosphorous fertilizers, could 
      influence the soil Hg concentrations to some extent at the station with lower 
      soil Hg concentrations, for example, at TY station. There were minimal amounts of 
      Hg resulting from applications of the other chemical fertilizers and organic 
      manure, and thus the fertilization had very low risk to the food security of the 
      agro-ecosystems in the terms of Hg inputs and contamination.
FAU - Zheng, Yuan-Ming
AU  - Zheng YM
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for 
      Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
FAU - Liu, Yu-Rong
AU  - Liu YR
FAU - Hu, Hong-Qing
AU  - Hu HQ
FAU - He, Ji-Zheng
AU  - He JZ
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20080609
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - 0 (Fertilizers)
RN  - 0 (Manure)
RN  - 0 (Soil Pollutants)
RN  - FXS1BY2PGL (Mercury)
SB  - IM
MH  - Agriculture
MH  - China
MH  - Data Interpretation, Statistical
MH  - Fertilizers/*analysis
MH  - Food Contamination
MH  - Manure/analysis
MH  - Mercury/*analysis
MH  - Soil Pollutants/*analysis
EDAT- 2008/06/11 09:00
MHDA- 2008/10/04 09:00
CRDT- 2008/06/11 09:00
PHST- 2007/09/27 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2008/04/07 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2008/04/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2008/06/11 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/10/04 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/06/11 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0045-6535(08)00567-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.04.052 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 2008 Jul;72(9):1274-8. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.04.052. Epub 
      2008 Jun 9.