Environmental and Health Impacts of Successive Mineral Fertilization in Egypt

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 356-363

  Abdelhafez, Ahmed A ^a,b   Abbas, Hassan H ^c   Abd El Aal, Rafat S ^c   Kandil, Nabil F ^a   Li, Jianhua ^b   Mahmoud, Wahballah ^d  

^a Agriculture Research Center   (Egypt)

^b Tongji University ^*  (China)

^c Benha University   (Egypt)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Fertilizer; Heavy metals; Risk assessment; Soil

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GEOACCUMULATION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; HEAVY METAL; MINERALIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EGYPT;

EID: 84859616048     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.201100151     Document Type: Article

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