Impact of earthworms on trace element solubility in contaminated mine soils amended with green waste compost

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 159, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1852-1860

  Sizmur, Tom ^a   Palumbo Roe, Barbara ^b   Hodson, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Lumbricus terrestris; Metal; Remediation

Indexed keywords

AMENDED SOIL; COMPOST AMENDMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY; GREEN WASTE COMPOST; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; METAL MOBILITY; METAL SOLUBILITY; MINE SOILS; PB/ZN MINE; PORE WATERS; WATERSOLUBLE;

ARSENIC; LEAD; METALS; ORGANIC CARBON; PH EFFECTS; REMEDIATION; REVEGETATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; SOLUBILITY; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC;

COMPOSTING;

ARSENIC; COPPER; LEAD; ZINC;

ARSENIC; COMPOST; COPPER; EARTHWORM; LEAD; ORGANIC CARBON; POREWATER; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL REMEDIATION; SOLUBILITY; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

ARTICLE; COMPOST; COMPOSTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHWORM; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; MINING; NONHUMAN; PH; REVEGETATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL POLLUTION; SOLUBILITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; METALS; MINING; OLIGOCHAETA; SOIL; SOLUBILITY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS;

EID: 79956214394     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.03.024     Document Type: Article

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