Effects of willow stands on heavy metal concentrations and top soil properties of infrastructure spoil landfills and dredged sediment-derived sites

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 5289-5297

  Vandecasteele, Bart ^a   Quataert, Paul ^b   Genouw, Gerrit ^b   Lettens, Suzanna ^b   Tack, Filip M G ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Mull humus types; Salix; Soil formation; Sulphate leaching; Zinc

Indexed keywords

DREDGED SEDIMENT LANDFILLS; DREDGED SEDIMENTS; FIRST YEAR; HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATION; LEAF FALL; METAL TRANSFERS; MULL HUMUS TYPES; SALIX; SOIL FORMATION; STAND AGE; SULPHATE LEACHING; SULPHATES; TOP SOILS; WILLOW STANDS;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DREDGING; DSL; FORESTRY; LAND FILL; LEACHING; LEAD; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MODEMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WEATHERING; ZINC;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MANGANESE; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFATE; ZINC;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEWATERING; DREDGE SPOIL; ENRICHMENT; HEAVY METAL; HUMUS; LANDFILL; LEACHING; LITTERFALL; RIPENING; SOIL PROPERTY; STAND STRUCTURE; SULFATE; TOPSOIL;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; LANDFILL; LEACHING; NONHUMAN; PHYTOREMEDIATION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROPERTY; WASTE DISPOSAL; WILLOW;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CADMIUM; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; METALS, HEAVY; PLANT LEAVES; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SALIX; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZINC;

SALIX;

EID: 68149098872     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.06.022     Document Type: Article

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