Validating potential toxicity assays to assess petroleum hydrocarbon toxicity in polar soil

• Published in: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
• Main Authors: Harvey, Alexis Nadine, Snape, Ian, Siciliano, Steven Douglas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2011
• Subjects: Casey Station; East Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/etc.744; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fetc.744; https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/etc.744

Abstract Potential microbial activities are commonly used to assess soil toxicity of petroleum hydrocarbons (PHC) and are assumed to be a surrogate for microbial activity within the soil ecosystem. However, this assumption needs to be evaluated for frozen soil, in which microbial activity is limited...