Phytoremediation
Subtitle: Management of Environmental Contaminants, Volume 1
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 04, 2014
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9783319103945
Description: This text details the plant-assisted remediation  method, “phytoremediation”, which involves the interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil and water contaminated with high levels of metals, pesticides, solvents, radionuclides, explosives, nutrients, crude oil, organic compounds and various other contaminants. Each chapter highlights and compares the beneficial and economical alternatives of phytoremediation to currently practiced soil and water removal and burial practices. This book covers state of the art approaches in phytoremediation written by leading and eminent scientists from around the globe. Phytoremediation: Management of Environmental Contaminants, Volume 1 supplies its readers with a multidisciplinary understanding in the principal and practical approaches of phytoremediation from laboratory research to field application.
Notes: Source title: Phytoremediation: Management of Environmental Contaminants, Volume 1