Screening of aquatic and wetland plant species for phytoremediation of explosives-contaminated groundwater from the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 829, Issue , 1997, Pages 179-194

  Best, E P H ^a   Zappi, M E ^b   Fredrickson, H L ^b   Sprecher, S L ^b   Larson, S L ^b   Ochman, M ^a  

^a AScl Corporation   (United States)

^b WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLONITE; EXPLOSIVE; GROUND WATER; TRINITROTOLUENE;

AQUATIC FLORA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACCUMULATION; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT; PLANT GROWTH; SOIL TREATMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT;

CANIDAE; CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; MYRIOPHYLLUM AQUATICUM; PHALARIS AQUATICA; PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA; PHRAGMITES; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 0031582866     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48574.x     Document Type: Article

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