"Proceedings of a seminar organized by the Commission of the European Communities, Directorate-General Science, Research, and Development, Environment Research Programme, held in Munster, Federal Republic of Germany, 11-13 April 1984"--P. ii. Includes bibliographies.

Chemical forms and reactivities of metals in sediments / U. Forstner -- Principles of investigations on the mobility and plant uptake of heavy metals / L. Kiekens and A. Cottenie -- Reasons to use neutral salt solutions to assess the metal impact on plant and soils / H. Hani and S. Gupta -- Evaluation of chemical methods for assessing the Cd and Zn availability from different soils and sources / D.R. Sauerbeck and B. Styperek -- The effect of incubation on the composition of soil solution displaced from 4 soils treated with zinc, copper, or nickel-loaded sewage sludge / T. McM. Adams and J.R. Sanders -- Factors influencing heavy metal availability in field experiments with sewage sludges / C. Juste and P. Solda.