BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF THE CONTAMINANTS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE.

Abstract

A discussion on the effects of regional and global changes on the mobility of contaminants is presented. Environmental changes associated with climate changes and alterations in soil use will may result in increasing mobilization of pollutants, in particular metals, and on their availability to biota, which have been accumulated from anthropogenic emissions in the past 150 years and are presently accumulated in natural sinks.