Remarks to the debate on mapping heavy metals in soil and soil monitoring in the European Union

Tóth, Gergely and Hermann, Tamás and Szatmári, Gábor and Pásztor, László (2017) Remarks to the debate on mapping heavy metals in soil and soil monitoring in the European Union. Science of The Total Environment, 603-04. pp. 827-831. ISSN 00489697

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Abstract

Scale and sampling density is the essence of any monitoring, and it has to be designed according to the targeted resolution of the information needed fromthemonitored environmental compartment. The quoted sampling campaigns from large countries from other parts of the world, like Australia, the USA but also those in China and the GEMAS in European have sampling densities of 1 site/ 5500 km2, 1 site/1600 km2, 1/2000 to 3000 km2 and 1/2500 to 5000 km2 respectively

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