Remediation of heavy metal contaminated soils: Phytoremediation as a potentially promising clean-up technology

Increased soil pollution with heavy metals due to various human and natural activities has led to a growing need to address environmental contamination. Some remediation technologies have been developed to treat contaminated soil, but a biology-based technology, phytoremediation, is emerging. Phytor...

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Main Author: Marques, Ana P. G. C. (author)
Other Authors: Rangel, António O. S. S. (author), Castro, Paula M. L. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/2709
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/2709