To understand the toxicity of Pb-polluted shooting fields, oribatid mites Platynothrus peltifer were exposed to shooting field soils containing 47–2398 mg Pb/kg dry weight (DW) and having pHCaCl2
Lead (Pb) is ranked as the number two priority hazardous substance by the US EPA (Chen et al. 2002). Annual deposition of metallic lead at shooting ranges has reached 6000 tons in the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, Canada, England and USA (Manninen and Tanskanen 1993; Scheuhammer and Norris 1995). In recent years, shooting ranges are under increasing scrutiny as a potentially significant source of lead contamination (Chen et al. 2002; Ming et al. 2012; Murray et al. 1997; Rooney et al. 1999).
