Agromining: Farming for metals in the future?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4773-4780

  Van Der Ent, Antony ^a,f   Baker, Alan J M ^a,b,f   Reeves, Roger D ^b   Chaney, Rufus L ^c   Anderson, Christopher W N ^d   Meech, John A ^e   Erskine, Peter D ^a   Simonnot, Marie Odile ^f   Vaughan, James ^a   Morel, Jean Louis ^f   Echevarria, Guillaume ^f   Fogliani, Bruno ^g   Rongliang, Qiu ^h   Mulligan, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^g Institut Agronomique Neo Caledonien (IAC)   (New Caledonia)

^h SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; LANTHANUM; LEAD; MANGANESE; METAL; NICKEL; SELENIUM; THALLIUM; ZINC; SOIL POLLUTANT;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRONOMY; BIOACCUMULATION; CROP PLANT; HEAVY METAL; MINING; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

AGROMINING; ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CROP PRODUCTION; DRY WEIGHT; ECONOMICS; FOOD CROP; INCOME; INDONESIA; NEW CALEDONIA; PHILIPPINES; PHYTOMINING; PLANT NUTRIENT; PLANT YIELD; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE MINING; VEGETATION; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS; DEVICES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MINING; PROCEDURES; SOIL POLLUTANT; TRENDS;

AGRICULTURE; METALS; MINING; NICKEL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84928411332     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es506031u     Document Type: Article

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