Use of freshwater plants for phytotoxicity testing: a review

MA Lewis - Environmental Pollution, 1995 - Elsevier
Phytotoxicity data for aquatic plants have served a relatively minor role in regulatory decisions
concerning the environmental hazard of most potential contamin.

[BOOK] Heavy metals in natural waters: applied monitoring and impact assessment

JW Moore, S Ramamoorthy - 2012 - books.google.com
... Due to the heavy demand for use in pesticides, world production rose to 25,000 metric tons in 1920
and ... Tremendous war demands for non-ferrous metals increased by-product uses. ... The metal is
extremely rare whereas As(-3) is found only at extremely low Eh values. ...

Microbial and plant derived biomass for removal of heavy metals from wastewater

SS Ahluwalia, D Goyal - Bioresource technology, 2007 - Elsevier
... Biomaterials of microbial and plant origin interact effectively with heavy metals. Metabolically
inactive dead biomass due to their unique chemical composition sequesters metal ions and metal
complexes from solution, which obviates the necessity to maintain special growth ...

Aquatic macrophytes potential for the simultaneous removal of heavy metals (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

P Miretzky, A Saralegui, AF Cirelli - Chemosphere, 2004 - Elsevier
... The main processes by which heavy metals are removed from aquatic environment are physical,
biological and ... The final metal concentration in plants is usually significantly larger than in the
watercolumn ... has led investigators to be interested in the toxicity of these metals for the ...

Heavy metals in aquatic plants and sediments from water systems in Macedonia, Greece

T Sawidis, MK Chettri, GA Zachariadis… - … and Environmental Safety, 1995 - Elsevier
... V. M. (1981). Uptake of radionuclides by freshwater plants under natural conditions. ... W. (1976).
Selected aquatic plants as indicator species for heavy metal pollution. ... G. (1991). Distribution of
heavy metals in sediments and aquatic plants of the river Pinios (Central Greece). Sci. ...

Heavy metal accumulation in vegetables irrigated with water from different sources

M Arora, B Kiran, S Rani, A Rani, B Kaur, N Mittal - Food chemistry, 2008 - Elsevier
... generally led to changes in the physicochemical characteristics of soil and consequently heavy
metal uptake by ... 2. It can be clearly observed that the concentration of all the heavy metals is higher
in wastewater-irrigated vegetables than freshwater-irrigated plants...

Sorption of heavy metal ions by the nonliving biomass of freshwater macrophytes

IAH Schneider, J Rubio - Environmental science & technology, 1999 - ACS Publications
... (c) it is possible to recover the sorbed heavy metals by elution techniques using ... This paper
investigates the sorption characteristics (mech anism and applications) of heavy metal ions by
selected and low-cost biomasses prepared from harvested freshwater macrophytes. ...

Accumulation of toxic trace elements by freshwater vascular plants

PM Outridge, BN Noller - Reviews of Environmental Contamination and …, 1991 - Springer
... 207–222.CrossRef. Mayes R, McIntosh A (1975) The use of aquatic macrophytes as indicators
of trace metal contamination in freshwater lakes ... RA, Atchison GJ, Nelson DW (1978) Some aspects
of sediment distribution and macrophyte cycling of heavy metals in a ...

Heavy metal adsorption properties of a submerged aquatic plant (Ceratophyllum demersum)

O Keskinkan, MZL Goksu, M Basibuyuk… - Bioresource …, 2004 - Elsevier
... Sorption of heavy metal ions by the non-living biomass of freshwater macrophytes. ... on biosorption
of Cu(II) by the non-living biomass of the freshwater macrophyte Potamogeton lucens. ... Biosorption
of heavy metals onto plant biomass: exchange adsorption or surface precipitation ...