A laboratory study on revegetation and metal uptake in native plant species from neutral mine tailings

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 183, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 201-212

  Conesa, Héctor M ^a   Schulin, Rainer ^a   Nowack, Bernd ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Lygeum spartum; Mine tailings; Phytoremediation; Piptatherum miliaceum; Semiarid climate; Zygophyllum fabago

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PH EFFECTS; POSITIVE IONS; SUBSTRATES; TAILINGS;

LYGEUM SPARTUM; MINE TAILINGS; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PIPTATHERUM MILIACEUM; SEMIARID CLIMATE; ZYGOPHYLLUM FABAGO;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; FERTILIZER; LEAD; METAL; ZINC;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PH EFFECTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POSITIVE IONS; SUBSTRATES; TAILINGS;

BIOACCUMULATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; HERB; LABORATORY METHOD; LEAD; LEGUME; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; METAL; MINE; MINE WASTE; NATIVE SPECIES; PH; PHYTOREMEDIATION; REVEGETATION; SEMIARID REGION; TAILINGS; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FERTILIZATION; LABORATORY; MINING; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; SOIL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

LYGEUM SPARTUM; PIPTATHERUM MILIACEUM; ZYGOPHYLLUM FABAGO;

EID: 34249807372     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-007-9369-1     Document Type: Article

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