Journal
TOXICS
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/toxics9030058
Keywords
ecological risk assessment; species sensitivity distribution (SSD); Cr; toxicity
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [42007336, 21677080]
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Chromium (VI) and Chromium (III) were found to have short-term toxic effects on the root growth of eleven terrestrial plants, with corresponding hazardous concentrations determined based on species sensitivity distribution curves. The study provides useful toxicity data for deriving national or local soil quality criteria for trivalent and hexavalent chromium.
Chromium (Cr) is one of the most severe heavy metal contaminants in soil, and it seriously threatens ecosystems and human health through the food chain. It is fundamental to collect toxicity data of Cr before developing soil quality criteria/standards in order to efficiently prevent health risks. In this work, the short-term toxic effects of Cr(VI) and Cr(III) on the root growth of eleven terrestrial plants were investigated. The corresponding fifth percentile hazardous concentrations (HC5) by the best fitting species sensitivity distribution (SSD) curves based on the tenth percentile effect concentrations (EC10) were determined to be 0.60 and 4.51 mg/kg for Cr (VI) and Cr (III), respectively. Compared to the screening level values worldwide, the HC5 values in this study were higher for Cr(VI) and lower for Cr(III) to some extent. The results provide useful toxicity data for deriving national or local soil quality criteria for trivalent and hexavalent Cr.
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