Plant colonization and arsenic uptake on high arsenic mine wastes, New Zealand

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 179, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 351-364

  Craw, Dave ^a   Rufaut, Cathy ^a   Haffert, Laura ^a   Paterson, Lorraine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antimony; Arsenic; Hyperaccumulation; Metalloid; Phytoremediation; Phytostabilisation; Revegetation

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; PLANTS (BOTANY); REVEGETATION; SUBSTRATES;

HYPERACCUMULATION; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PHYTOSTABILIZATION;

WASTE TREATMENT;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; HYDROXIDE; IRON;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; PLANTS (BOTANY); REVEGETATION; SUBSTRATES; WASTE TREATMENT;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; COLONIZATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HYPERACCUMULATION; MINE WASTE; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; REVEGETATION;

ARTICLE; DRY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; FERN; FUCHSIA EXCORTICATA; GRASS; GRISELINIA LITTORALIS; HABITAT; HONEY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INORGANIC NUTRIENT; LEPTOSPERMUM; LEPTOSPERMUM SCOPARIUM; MINING; MOSS; NEW ZEALAND; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PLANT; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; POHLIA WAHLENBERGII; POLLUTION; PRECIPITATION; REVEGETATION; SHOOT; SHRUB; TREE; ULEX EUROPAEUS;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; WEST COAST [SOUTH ISLAND];

BRYOPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; FUCHSIA; FUCHSIA EXCORTICATA; GRISELINIA LITTORALIS; JUNCUS; LEPTOSPERMUM SCOPARIUM; POACEAE; POHLIA WAHLENBERGII; ULEX EUROPAEUS;

EID: 33846821978     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-006-9238-3     Document Type: Article

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