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Does application of firefighting foam affect soil invertebrates?

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posted on 2005-01-01, 00:00 authored by M Koehler, Robyn Adams, Dianne Simmons
Firefighting foam (Class A foam) is an effective and widespread frrefighting tool often used in environmentally sensitive areas. Although, firefighting foam is known to be ecologically damaging to aquatic invertebrates, application of 1.0% foam to heathland soils showed no detectable impacts on soil invertebrate orders sampled over several months. The results are encouraging for the continued use of Class A foam as a fire suppression technique in areas with high conservation value.

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Journal

Victorian naturalist

Volume

122

Issue

3

Pagination

128 - 133

Publisher

Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

Location

[Melbourne, Vic.]

ISSN

0042-5184

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2005, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

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