Mapping of arsenic pollution with reference to paddy cultivation in the middle Indo-Gangetic Plains

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 187, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Srivastava, Pankaj Kumar ^a   Singh, Manvi ^a,b   Gupta, Manjul ^a   Singh, Nandita ^a   Kharwar, Ravindra Nath ^b   Tripathi, Rudra Deo ^a   Nautiyal, Chandra Shekhar ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

India; Irrigation groundwater; Metalloid; Rice; Soil

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ENZYMES; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IRRIGATION; METALLOIDS; SOILS; TEXTURES;

ARSENIC CONTAMINATION; ARSENIC POLLUTION; INDIA; INDO-GANGETIC PLAINS; OXIDO-REDUCTASES; PADDY CULTIVATION; REGULATORY STANDARDS; RICE;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; CARBON; GROUND WATER; HYDROLASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHOSPHORUS; SULFUR; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IRRIGATION; PADDY FARMING; RICE; ROOT; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DRY WEIGHT; GRAIN; INDIA; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MACRONUTRIENT; PLANT ROOT; PRAIRIE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TEXTURE; TILLAGE; VARIETAS; WATER CONTAMINATION; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTION; PROCEDURES; RICE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

GANGETIC PLAIN; INDIA;

AGRICULTURE; ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; INDIA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84925359059     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-015-4418-5     Document Type: Article

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