Bioaccumulation and translocation of metals in the natural vegetation growing on fly ash lagoons: A field study from Santaldih thermal power plant, West Bengal, India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 136, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 355-370

  Maiti, Subodh Kumar ^a   Jaiswal, Shishir ^a  

^a INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Fly ash lagoons; Metals; Natural vegetation; Translocation

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOREMEDIATION; COPPER; FILTRATION; FLY ASH; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; VEGETATION; ZINC;

FLY ASH LAGOONS; NATURAL VEGETATION; RHIZOFILTRATION; TRANSLOCATION;

SEWAGE LAGOONS;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; EDETIC ACID; LEAD; MANGANESE; METAL; NICKEL; PENTETIC ACID; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EDTA; FLY ASH; HEAVY METAL; LAGOON; POWER PLANT; TRANSLOCATION; VEGETATION;

ALKALINITY; AMARANTHUS; AMARANTHUS DEFLEXUS; BERMUDA GRASS; BIOACCUMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYNODON; CYPERACEAE; FIELD STUDY; FIMBRISTYLIS DICHOTOMA; FLY ASH; INDIA; LAGOON; METAL EXTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PLANT ROOT; POACEAE; SACCHARUM SPONTAENUM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHOOT; TYPHA LATIFOLIA; TYPHACEAE;

ANIMALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INDIA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLANTS; POWER PLANTS;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WEST BENGAL;

AMARANTHUS; CYNODON DACTYLON; FIMBRISTYLIS DICHOTOMA; SACCHARUM; TYPHA LATIFOLIA;

EID: 36549069258     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9691-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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