Major nutrients, heavy metals and PBDEs in soils after long-term sewage sludge application

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 531-541

  Wu, Longhua ^a   Cheng, Miaomiao ^a,b   Li, Zhu ^a   Ren, Jing ^a   Shen, Libo ^a   Wang, Songfeng ^a   Luo, Yongming ^a   Christie, Peter ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Nutrients; PBDEs; Sewage sludge fertilizers; Soils

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DTPA; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; HEAVY METAL; PBDE; PHOSPHORUS; SEWAGE; SLUDGE; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL NUTRIENT;

CHINA; HEBEI; NINGBO; TANGSHAN; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 84862816900     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-012-0485-1     Document Type: Article

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