Influence of soil properties on trace element availability and plant accumulation in a Mediterranean salt marsh polluted by mining wastes: Implications for phytomanagement

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 4470-4479

  Conesa, H M ^a   Maria Cervantes A ^a   Alvarez Rogel J ^a   Gonzalez Alcaraz M N ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mining pollution; Phytoavailability; Phytomanagement; Salinity; Salt marshes; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FIELD STUDIES; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; MICROENVIRONMENTS; MINING WASTE; ORGANIC CARBON CONTENTS; PHYTOAVAILABILITY; PHYTOMANAGEMENT; PLANT SPECIES; SALINE SOIL; SALINITY; SALT FLATS; SALT MARSHES; SAMPLING SURVEY; SAND DUNES; SOIL CONCENTRATIONS; SOIL PARAMETERS; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL SAMPLE; VEGETATION COMPOSITION; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION;

ALKALINITY; CADMIUM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LEAD; METALS; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVER CONTROL; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SALT DEPOSITS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL; SOILS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; EDETIC ACID; LEAD; MANGANESE; ORGANIC CARBON; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MINE WASTE; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYTOREMEDIATION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SALTMARSH; SOIL PROPERTY; TRACE ELEMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTHROCNEMUM MACROSTACHYUM; ARTICLE; CRUCIANELLA MARITIMA; DITTRICHIA VISCOSA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; JUNCUS MARITIMUS; MICROENVIRONMENT; MINING POLLUTION; NONHUMAN; PH; PHYTOAVAILABILITY; PLANT ROOT; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SALT MARSH; SHOOT; SOIL PROPERTY; WILD PLANT;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MINING; PLANT ROOTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPAIN; TRACE ELEMENTS; WETLANDS;

ARTHROCNEMUM MACROSTACHYUM; CRUCIANELLA MARITIMA; DITTRICHIA VISCOSA; JUNCUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 80052063045     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.07.049     Document Type: Article

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