Heavy Metals in Soils: Their Origins, Chemical Behaviour & Bioavailability

Heavy Metals in Soils: Their Origins, Chemical Behaviour & Bioavailability

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Book Description
Provides a comprehensive review of heavy metals in soils, methods of analysis, and the impact of these metals on the environment. Each element is given a chapter of its own, with emphasis on soil-chemical processes and factors influencing the availability of metals to plants. Also discusses health effects, soil-plant-animal/human pathways, and soil as a source and sink for metals.

The publisher, John Wiley & Sons
Provides a comprehensive review of heavy metals in soils, methods of analysis, and the impact of these metals on the environment. Each element is given a chapter of its own, with emphasis on soil-chemical processes and factors influencing the availability of metals to plants. Also discusses health effects, soil-plant-animal/human pathways, and soil as a source and sink for metals.

Heavy Metals in Soils: Their Origins, Chemical Behaviour & Bioavailability,B. J. Alloway,Halsted Press,0470215984,Agriculture - Agronomy,Environmental Science,Environmental aspects,General,Heavy metal content,Heavy metals,Plant-soil relationships,Science,Science/Mathematics,Soils

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