Heavy metal accumulation and tolerance in plants from mine tailings of the semiarid Cartagena-La Unión mining district (SE Spain)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 366, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-11

  Conesa, Héctor M ^a,b   Faz, Ángel ^b   Arnaldos, Raquel ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Mine tailings; Phytostabilization; Semiarid climate

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; EROSION; HEAVY METAL COMPOUNDS; HEAVY METALS; MINING; PH EFFECTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLLUTION; VEGETATION;

HYPERACCUMULATORS; MINE TAILINGS; PHYTOSTABILIZATION; SEMIARID CLIMATE;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; ZINC;

BIOREMEDIATION; EROSION; HEAVY METAL; MINE WASTE; PLANT; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; SEMIARID REGION; TAILINGS; VEGETATION;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; DESERT; HELICHRYSUM; LYGEUM SPARTUM; MINING; NONHUMAN; PH; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOSPHERE; SHOOT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL; SOLUBILITY; SPAIN; TAMARIX; VEGETATION; ZYGOPHYLLACEAE;

COPPER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LEAD; METALS, HEAVY; MINING; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPAIN; ZINC; ZYGOPHYLLUM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

HELICHRYSUM DECUMBENS; LYGEUM SPARTUM; TAMARIX; ZYGOPHYLLUM FABAGO;

EID: 33745698100     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.12.008     Document Type: Article

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