Overview
- Provides an overview of the current concepts
- Includes tools for soil remediation
- A valuable source of information for scientists in soil ecology, environmental sciences, microbiology, plant physiology and biogeosciences
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Soil Biology (SOILBIOL, volume 31)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Metal contamination is an increasing ecological and eco-toxicological risk. Understanding the processes involved in metal mobilization, sorption and mineralization in soils are key features for soil bioremediation.
Following an introduction to the physical, chemical and biological components of contaminated soils, various chapters address the interactions of soil, microorganisms, plants and the water phase necessary to transfer metals into biological systems. These include topics such as potential hazards at mining sites; rare earth elements in biotic and abiotic acidic systems; manganese redox reactions; biomineralisation, uranium in seepage water; metal-resistant streptomycetes; mycorrhiza in re-forestation; metal (hyper)accummulation in plants; microbial metal uptake; and their potential for bioremediation.
This book will be of interest to soil biologists, geologists and chemists, researchers and graduate students, as well as consulting companies and small enterprises involved in bioremediation.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bio-Geo Interactions in Metal-Contaminated Soils
Editors: Erika Kothe, Ajit Varma
Series Title: Soil Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23327-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-23326-5Published: 06 January 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42735-0Published: 23 February 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-23327-2Published: 05 January 2012
Series ISSN: 1613-3382
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4831
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 426
Topics: Microbiology, Plant Physiology, Biogeosciences, Soil Science & Conservation, Terrestrial Pollution