ABSTRACT
Views of the toxicity of aluminum to man, animals, and plants and on its behavior in the ecosystems with a changing man-made loading have changed in the past 30 years. Aluminum along with its human medical consequences has been found to present problems on the acid soils in world agriculture. To systematize knowledge and to control information on aluminum and its compounds, the reference information system "Ecology and Aluminum Toxicology" whose structure is based on the developed model of an ecological aluminum cycle was designed. Basic information units were identified in a rather wide subject area: "Generation", "Spread", and "Action", which include the information available in the published materials and the data obtained in the authors' experimental studies.