Sewage sludge fertiliser use: Implications for soil and plant copper evolution in forest and agronomic soils

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 424, Issue , 2012, Pages 39-47

  Ferreiro Domínguez, Nuria ^a   Rigueiro Rodríguez, Antonio ^a   Mosquera Losada, M Rosa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Agroforestry; Heavy metals; Leaching; Pinus radiata; Sowing

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; AGROFORESTRY; CROP TOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS; FERTILISATION; FOREST SOILS; FORESTLANDS; HIGH QUALITY; PINUS RADIATA; SOIL SEED BANK; SOWING;

AGRONOMY; FERTILIZERS; HEAVY METALS; LEACHING; REFORESTATION; SEED; SEWAGE SLUDGE;

SOILS;

COPPER; FERTILIZER;

AGROFORESTRY; AGRONOMY; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FERTILIZER; HEAVY METAL; SEWAGE; TOXICITY; VEGETATION;

AGRONOMIC SOIL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FERTILIZATION; FOREST SOIL; LEACHING; MINERAL FERTILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE; SLUDGE FERTILIZATION; SOIL; SOWN; UNSOWN; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURE; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FERTILIZERS; GROUNDWATER; PINUS; SEWAGE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPAIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TREES; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 84859780785     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.02.042     Document Type: Article

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