Phytoremediation trials on metal- and arsenic-contaminated pyrite wastes (Torviscosa, Italy)

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 887-894

  Vamerali, Teofilo ^a   Bandiera, Marianna ^b   Coletto, Lucia ^b   Zanetti, Federica ^b   Dickinson, Nicholas M ^c   Mosca, Giuliano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Phytoremediation; Poplar; Pyrite cinders; Root electrical capacitance; Root growth; Trace metals; Willow

Indexed keywords

PHYTOREMEDIATION; POPLAR; PYRITE CINDERS; ROOT ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE; ROOT GROWTH; TRACE METALS; WILLOW;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; ARSENIC; BIOMASS; BIOREMEDIATION; CALCINATION; CAPACITANCE; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; COPPER; FORESTRY; GROWTH (MATERIALS); METAL RECOVERY; METALS; PYRITES; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SOILS; STRIPPING (DYES); SULFUR; TRACE ANALYSIS; ZINC;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ARSENIC; COBALT; COPPER; LEAD; PYRITE; ZINC;

ARSENIC; BIOAVAILABILITY; DECIDUOUS TREE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PHYTOMASS; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PYRITE; RHIZOSPHERE; ROOT SYSTEM; SOIL REMEDIATION; SUBSOIL; TRACE ELEMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; ASPEN; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FIELD STUDY; IMMOBILIZATION; ITALY; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PLOWING; PRODUCTIVITY; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL TREATMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WILLOW; WOOD DEBRIS;

ARSENIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; HAZARDOUS WASTE; IRON; ITALY; METALLURGY; METALS; PLANT ROOTS; POPULUS; SALIX; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SULFIDES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UDINE;

POPULUS; SALIX;

EID: 58249133227     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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