Soil Contamination by Heavy Metals and Metalloids

• Other Authors: Gasparatos, Dionisios (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Research & information: general; PTE; anthropogenic soils; Technosols; trace elements; heavy metals; urban agriculture; heavy metal availability; enrichment factor; redox; biochar; cadmium; lead; contaminated paddy soil; short- and long-term mechanisms; ACC deaminase; heavy metal stress; PGPR; fertilizers; nutrients; yield; selenium; acid soils; alkaline soils; adsorption; desorption; Freundlich; Langmuir; Mediterranean soils; vehicular emissions; road age; diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT); metal dissociation time (Tc); wheat assay; optimised linear model; biochar application rates; metal accumulation; nitrogen; ryegrass; n/a
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Soil contamination has been identified as one of the main threats to soil, inducing the degradation of global soils and driving long-term losses of the ecosystem services that they provide. As a result of human activities, the amount of soil contamination caused by heavy metal(loid)s has severely in...