Overview
- Presents current overview on paddy soils pollution with the main focus on their dynamics and fate
- Provides strategies for the management of paddy soils pollution
- Appeals to students, researchers and scholars in environmental science and engineering
Part of the book series: Soil Biology (SOILBIOL, volume 53)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The paddy field is a unique agro-ecosystem and provides services such as food, nutrient recycling and diverse habitats. However, chemical contamination of paddy soils has degraded the quality of this important ecosystem.
This book provides an overview of our current understanding of paddy soil pollution, addressing topics such as the major types of pollutants in contaminated paddy soil ecosystems; factors affecting the fate of pollutants in paddy soil; biomonitoring approaches to assess the contaminated paddy soil; the impact of chemicals on soil microbial diversity; and climate change. It also covers arsenic and heavy metal pollution of paddy soils and their impact on rice quality. Further, new emerging contaminants such as antibiotics and antibiotics resistance genes (ARGs) in paddy soil and their impact on environmental health are also discussed. The last chapters focus on the bioremediation approaches for the management of paddy soils.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Meteorology, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. He completed his PhD in Environmental Engineering at the Zhejiang University, China. Dr. Hashmi’s research focuses on bioremediation of contaminated soil and cell toxicology. He has edited two books with Springer on hot issues (Antibiotics and Antibiotics Resistance Genes in Soils and Xenobiotics in the Soil Environment), which have been used at innumerable colleges, universities and research institutions around the globe.
Prof. Ajit Varma (M.Sc., Ph.D.) was Professor of Microbial Technology at the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, before he became Director of the AMITY Institute of Herbal & Microbial Research in 2004. Professor Varma has won a large number of coveted national and international awards for his scientific contributions and was elected Fellow ofthe National Academy of Agricultural Sciences of India. He has lectured on various aspects of microbial sciences worldwide and has been honored for his excellence in teaching at esteemed universities. His first two books, dealing with mycorrhizal research, were published in 1991-1992 by Academic Press (UK) and have been used at innumerable colleges, universities and research institutions around the globe. Since then, he has compiled 18 books produced by leading scientific publishing houses.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Pollution of Paddy Soils
Editors: Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi, Ajit Varma
Series Title: Soil Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93671-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93670-3Published: 06 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06703-8Published: 20 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93671-0Published: 25 September 2018
Series ISSN: 1613-3382
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4831
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 271
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbiology, Plant Sciences, Biotechnology, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Microbial Ecology, Forestry