Response of native grasses and Cicer arietinum to soil polluted with mining wastes: Implications for the management of land adjacent to mine sites

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 198-204

  Conesa, Héctor M ^a   Moradi, Ahmad B ^a   Robinson, Brett H ^a   Kühne, Guido ^b   Lehmann, Eberhard ^b   Schulin, Rainer ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Metal tolerance; Metal uptake; Mine tailings; Neutron radiography; Phytomanagement; Phytostabilisation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CATTLE; FOOD CHAIN; GRASS; HEAVY METAL; LAND MANAGEMENT; LEGUME; MINE WASTE; NATIVE SPECIES; PH; PHYTOMASS; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PHYTOTOXICITY; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; RADIOGRAPHY; REVEGETATION; SOIL POLLUTION; TAILINGS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

BOS; CICER ARIETINUM; LYGEUM SPARTUM; PIPTATHERUM MILIACEUM; POACEAE;

EID: 58649117584     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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