Native plant communities in an abandoned Pb-Zn mining area of Northern Spain: Implications for phytoremediation and germplasm preservation

International Journal of Phytoremediation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 256-270

  Barrutia, Oihana ^a   Artetxe, U ^a   Hernandez A ^a   Olano, J M ^b   Garcia Plazaola J I ^a   Garbisu, C ^c   Becerril, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b Esc de Ingenierias Agrarias   (Spain)

^c NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecological restoration; Metallicolous biodiversity; Metallophytes; Phytotechnologies; Revegetation

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; LEAD; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; MINING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLANT; PRESERVATION; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; SPAIN;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CADMIUM; LEAD; MINING; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPAIN; ZINC;

THLASPI; THLASPI CAERULESCENS;

EID: 78751478772     PISSN: 15226514     EISSN: 15497879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15226511003753946     Document Type: Article

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