Trace Elements in Terrestrial Environments
Subtitle: Biogeochemistry, Bioavailability, and Risks of Metals
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 12, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 867
ISBN-13: 9780387986784
First sentence: Rapid population growth. Climate change. Global deforestation. Resource exhaustion. Biodiversity loss. They indicate the wide scope of serious global environmental problems that are becoming more complex and critical with each passing day.
Description: "This handbook covers the most important aspects of trace elements in terrestrial environments. Each chapter addresses a particular element and gives a general introduction to its role in nature, where it originates, and its biogeochemical cycles and biological effects. In addition to a comprehensive updating of each of the element chapters, this new edition has new chapters on soil contamination, biogeochemistry, bioavailability, ecological and human health effects, risk assessment, and remediation.

For the first time, the interrelationships among source term, chemical speciation, transport, bioavailability, and the risk of trace elements in organisms, in both aquatic and terrestrial systems, are discussed." "This will be an essential resource for scholars, students, and practitioners in environmental science, agronomy, ecology, environmental health, soil and plant sciences, and allied disciplines."--BOOK JACKET.