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Community-based, cost-effective multispecies mangrove restoration innovation to maximize soil blue carbon pool and humic acid and fulvic acid concentrations at Indian Sundarbans
Sundarbans is the world’s largest and most diverse contiguous mangrove ecosystem. In this pilot study, three plots (around 1 ha each) were selected, where one site (S1) had 1 year of community involvement, ano...
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An approach to quantify heavy metals and their source apportionment in coal mine soil: a study through PMF model
Mining activities in the opencast coal mines contaminate the surrounding soil by releasing coal dust containing heavy metals (HMs). The objective of the present study was to quantify the concentration of HMs ...
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Open AccessHow temperature affects biochar properties for application in coal mine spoils? A meta-analysis
Biochar application in agricultural and metal mines has been studied widely; however, very few studies have been conducted on its application as an amendment for the restoration of coal mine degraded land. Thu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Development of Nutrient Stocks and Soil Properties of Restored Solid Waste Dump After 5 Years of Afforestation with Guava Fruit Orchard
The disposal of industrial solid wastes damages the terrestrial ecosystem due to the complete removal of vegetation cover, deterioration in soil quality and loss of soil nutrients. Therefore, the restoration o...
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Role of Endophytic Microorganisms in Phosphate Solubilization and Phytoremediation of Degraded Soils
Phosphorus (P) is considered as the second most important element in plant nutrient profile after nitrogen. It primarily exists incorporated in organic compounds or as mineral salts in soil. Despite these, pho...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Bioadsorbents for Industrial Wastewater Treatment
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Steering restoration of coal mining degraded ecosystem to achieve sustainable development goal-13 (climate action): United Nations decade of ecosystem restoration (2021–2030)
For millennium, mining sector is a source not only of mineral extraction for industrialization, economic expansion, and urban sprawling, but also of socio-environmental concern. It, therefore, has been the cen...
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Psidium guajava (L.)—a Bioeconomic Plant for Restoration of Industrial Solid Waste Dump: a Green and Sustainable Approach
Solid wastes generated from industrial sponge iron plants (ISP) are categorized as hazardous waste due to their extremely fine, loose texture, toxic metal concentrations, and being wind borne in summer; their ...
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Indian Fish as Bioindicator Species
India is the second largest fish producer in the world. This review takes into account the observations from the open literature about the metal (loid) concentrations of Indian freshwater and marine fish speci...
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Effect of invasive weed biochar amendment on soil enzymatic activity and respiration of coal mine spoil: a laboratory experiment study
Mining and excavation activities cause massive degradation of land, leading to complete loss of soil resources, vegetation, and biodiversity. Mine spoils support invasive weeds (predominantly Lantana) which can s...
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Different Soil Factors Influencing Dehydrogenase Activity in Mine Degraded Lands—State-of-Art Review
Soil enzymes quickly respond to the disturbances caused in environmental pollution originating from human activities. Computation of enzyme activities has been used as indexes of microbial functionality, soil ...
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Bioaccumulation of potentially toxic elements in three mangrove species and human health risk due to their ethnobotanical uses
The aim of this study was to assess probabilistic human health risk due to ethnobotanical usage of Avicennia officinalis, Porteresia coarctata and Acanthus ilicifolius. The study was conducted at the tannery outf...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Brassica Juncea (L.) Czern. (Indian Mustard): A Potential Candidate for the Phytoremediation of Mercury from Soil
Soil contamination caused by the deposition of mercury (Hg) is a global problem. Hg is released to the environment through the coal burning in thermal power plant and various anthropogenic sources and contamin...
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Impact of Climate Change on Functional Root-Derived Signals
This chapter presents an analysis of current data on the impact of climate change on the biomass of fine roots. World forests store 44% of carbon in biomass, 11% in dead wood and litter, and 45% in soil. As a ...
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Toxic metal(loid)s contamination and potential human health risk assessment in the vicinity of century-old copper smelter, Karabash, Russia
Active smelters release high concentration of multiple toxic metal(loid)s into the environment, degrading the soil cover and posing high risks to human health. The present study investigates Cu along with othe...
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Risks Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution in Roadside Soil and Vegetation of National Highway Crossing through Industrial Area
A descriptive research was conducted seasonally for divulging the impact of deposition and contamination of selected heavy metals (HMs) like Cd, Ni, Cu, Pb, Zn and Cr) in roadside soil (RSS) and grass (Cynodon da...
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Metal(loid) contamination in water, sediment, epilithic periphyton and fish in three interconnected ecosystems and health risk assessment through intake of fish cooked in Indian style
Samples of water, sediment and epilithic periphyton (EP) were collected from a lake (Dimna, DL), an intermediate canal (IC), and a river (Subarnarekha River, SR) to compare the pollution status of an urban eco...
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Risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in soils and vegetables around coal-fired thermal power plant: a case study of Dhanbad, India
The present study was intended to determine the potentially toxic elements (PTEs) concentration in fly ash (FA), soil, plant, and vegetable to assess the impacts of pollution on the nearby areas of coal-fired ...
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Sources, bioaccumulation, health risks and remediation of potentially toxic metal(loid)s (As, Cd, Cr, Pb and Hg): an epitomised review
The release of potentially toxic metal(loid)s (PTMs) such as As, Cd, Cr, Pb and Hg has become a serious threat to the environment. The anthropogenic contribution of these PTMs, especially Hg, is increasing con...
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Municipal and Industrial Wastewater Treatment Using Constructed Wetlands
High rate of urbanization and industrialization in recent years is generating very large amount of wastewater. Inadequate wastewater treatment options may lead to the discharge of untreated wastewaters (contai...
