Soil Contamination by Heavy Metals and Metalloids

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: ACC deaminase; acid soils; adsorption; alkaline soils; anthropogenic soils; biochar; biochar application rates; cadmium; contaminated paddy soil; desorption; diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT); enrichment factor; fertilizers; Freundlich; heavy metal availability; heavy metal stress; heavy metals; Langmuir; lead; Mediterranean soils; metal accumulation; metal dissociation time (Tc); n/a; nitrogen; nutrients; optimised linear model; PGPR; PTE; redox; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; road age; ryegrass; selenium; short- and long-term mechanisms; Technosols; trace elements; urban agriculture; vehicular emissions; wheat assay; yield

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...