ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 18311 First edition 2016-01-15 Soil quality - Method for testing effects of soil contaminants on the feeding activity of soil dwelling organisms Bait-lamina test Qualité dusol-Methodepourtester les effets descontaminants du sol sur I'activité alimentaire des organismes vivant dans le sol Test Bait-lamina Reference number ISO 18311:2016(E) LSO International Organization for Standardization @IS02016 vided by IHS under ted without license from IHS IS0 18311:2016(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT IS02016,PublishedinSwitzerland All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyrightoffice Ch. de Blandonnet 8 . CP 401 CH-1214 Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland Tel. +41 22 749 01 11 Fax +41 22 749 09 47 copyright@iso.org www.iso.org PrganizationforStandardization ensee-ZHEJIANG INST OF STANDARDIZRoISQ ,6 - All rights reserved Not for Resale, 2016/3/29 02:54:45 etworking permitted without license from IHS IS0 18311:2016(E) Contents Page Foreword ..iv Introduction. ..V 1 Scope. ..1 2 Normative references ..1 3 Terms and definitions 4 Principle ..2 5 Reagents and material .3 5.1 Bait material .3 5.2 Reagents.. ..3 6 Apparatus (equipment) .3 7 Procedure .3 7.1 General. .3 7.2 Preparation of the bait-lamina strips, .4 7.3 Experimental design and test performance. ..5 7.4 Examination of the bait-lamina strips 8 Expression of results .8 9 Validity of the test ..8 10 Statistical analysis ..8 11 Test report ..8 Annex A (informative) Use of the bait-lamina method for monitoring the biological quality ofsoils .10 Annex B (informative) Examples are taken from one study performed in the Brazilian Amazon forest in which the removal of the litter layer was used as stressor[30] ..11 Bibliography .14 iii e=ZHEJIANG INSTOFSTANDARDIZATION C15956617 vided by IHS under I thout license from IHS