Phytoremediation of heavy metals in a tropical impoundment of industrial region

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 165, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 529-537

  Rai, Prabhat Kumar ^a  

^a MIZORAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Coal mines; Eichhornia; Heavy metals; Phytoremediation; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; AQUATIC MACROPHYTES; AQUATIC POLLUTION; ASH PONDS; CHLOR-ALKALI INDUSTRY; CONCENTRATION OF; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; LEMNA MINOR; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; METAL POLLUTION; METALS CONCENTRATIONS; NATURAL ECOSYSTEM; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; PHYTOREMEDIATION; POLLUTED SITES; REFERENCE SITES; SAMPLING SITE; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; TROPICAL LAKES; WATER QUALITY MONITORING;

AGRICULTURE; APPROXIMATION THEORY; AQUACULTURE; BIOREMEDIATION; COAL; COAL INDUSTRY; COAL MINES; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); HEAVY METALS; HEAVY WATER; LAKES; METALS; MINING; OIL SPILLS; POLLUTION; POTABLE WATER; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEDIMENTOLOGY; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; WATER QUALITY;

LAKE POLLUTION;

COAL MINE; HEAVY METAL; LAKE POLLUTION; LAKE WATER; PHYTOREMEDIATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ACIDITY; ALKALINITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; COAL MINING; CONDUCTANCE; EFFLUENT; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HARDNESS; MACROPHYTE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PHYTOREMEDIATION; RESERVOIR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; TROPICS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDIA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS, HEAVY; PLANTS; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AZOLLA PINNATA; EICHHORNIA; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; LEMNA MINOR; NALA;

EID: 77952288745     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-0964-z     Document Type: Article

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