Assessment of soil toxicity of the Primorsky region based on differences in the parameters of the development of the indicator species in the soils

• Макарова Вера Николаевна

  V. N. Makarova. Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service. Vladivostok. Russia

• E. A. Vasilevskaya

  E. A. Vasilevskaya,Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service. Vladivostok. Russia

• D. N. Dendobrova

  D. N. Dendobrova. Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service. Vladivostok. Russia

• D. S. Zashkina

  D. S. Zashkina. Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service. Vladivostok. Russia

Anthropogenic activities related to the realization of economic, recreational, and cultural interests that make physical, chemical, and biological changes to the natural environment are called environmental impacts. They can respond to even the smallest changes and avoid the use of expensive and time–consuming physical and chemical methods to measure biological parameters. The assessment of the degree of soil contamination in the places at the location of the plant's cement production and active pollution from motor transport (the central part of the city), carried out with the help of bioindication, allows us to determine the toxicity of the soil. The reliability of the results is confirmed by
the methods of environmental statistics or biometrics. In this study, data were obtained that, taking into account the geographical location of the selection point, the results showed both low toxicity of the soil and the stimulating effect of man-made environmental factors on its condition.

Keywords: bioindication, anthropogenic impact, pollution, toxicity, environmental quality assessment,
environment.