Rhizosphere and flooding regime as key factors for the mobilisation of arsenic and potentially harmful metals in basic, mining-polluted salt marsh soils

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1722-1733

  María Cervantes, Antonio ^a   Conesa, Héctor M ^a   González Alcaraz, María Nazaret ^a   Álvarez Rogel, José ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINANT ELEMENT; ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; FOOD CHAIN; KEY FACTORS; MINING ACTIVITIES; MINING AREAS; MOBILISATION; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PLANT SPECIES; RE-WETTING; REDOX CONDITION; REDOX POTENTIALS; SALT MARSHES; SOIL SOLUTIONS;

ARSENIC; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; LEACHING; LEAD; METALS; REDOX REACTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; WETLANDS; ZINC;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FLOODING; FOOD CHAIN; GRASS; HALOPHYTE; LEACHING; MINING INDUSTRY; MOBILIZATION; PH; REDOX CONDITIONS; RHIZOSPHERE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALTMARSH; SOIL POLLUTION;

PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SARCOCORNIA FRUTICOSA;

EID: 77958478980     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2010.08.019     Document Type: Article

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