Phytoremediation by some species of aquatic plants for As and Hg removal (Case study: Dezful, Iran)

Advances in Environmental Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3629-3635

  Afrous, Alishir ^a   Goudarzi, Shahram ^a   Liaghat, Abdolmajid ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Arsenic; Mercury and Phragmites australis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055223044     PISSN: 19950756     EISSN: 19981066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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