Research progress on ecological environment assess-ment in mining areas
This paper introduces the two main research objects of ecological environment evaluation in mining areas,water bodies and soils,and describes the main evaluation criteria used for their heavy metal pollution evaluation.By summarizing the widely used physicochemical and ecotoxicological methods for the evaluation of ecological pollution in mining areas,we conclude that ecotoxicological evaluation can visually reflect the toxic effects of pollutants on organisms,but it is difficult to obtain comprehensive information on the exposure of pollutants from the results of biological tests only.Therefore,combining the results of physicochemical analysis and ecotoxicity evaluation can provide a more integrated and comprehensive evaluation of the ecological environment in mining areas.