Metals in the Environment - Analysis by Biodiversity

A summary of data on heavy metal accumulation, biomonitoring, toxicity and tolerance, metal contamination and pollution in the environment, and the importance of biodiversity for environmental monitoring and cleanup of metal-contaminated and polluted ecosystems. It advocates the use of bacteria, mycorrhizae, freshwater algae, salt marshes, bryo- and pteridophytes, angiosperms, constructed wetlands, reed beds, and floating plant systems and tree crops to treat wastewaters and industrial effluents containing toxic heavy metals.

List of contents

Bacteria; mycorrhizal fungi; freshwater algae; saltmarsh metallophytes; lichens; bryophytes and pteridophytes; angiosperms (asteraceae, poaceae, caryophyllaceae); angiosperms (brassicaceae); aquatic macrophytes; plant response to aluminium toxicity in acid soil; tree crops; tree bark; tree rings and dendroanalysis; heavy metal interactions in soils and implications to soil microbial biodiversity; behaviour of heavy metals in soils.

About the author

M.N.V. Prasad

Summary

Offers a summary of data on heavy metal accumulation, biomonitoring, toxicity and tolerance, metal contamination and pollution in the environment, and the importance of biodiversity for environmental monitoring and cleanup of metal-contaminated and polluted ecosystems. This title advocates the use of bacteria, mycorrhizae, and freshwater algae.

Product details

• Authors: M. N. V. Prasad, M.N.V. Prasad
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.2001
• EAN: 9780824705237
• ISBN: 978-0-8247-0523-7
• No. of pages: 508
• Weight: 861 g
• Series: Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment; Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, Applied ecology, environmental science, engineering & technology, Pollution & threats to the environment, Pollution and threats to the environment, Environmental science, engineering and technology