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Heavy metals in agricultural soils of the Pearl River Delta, South China

Interaction of Cd and five mineral nutrients for uptake and accumulation in different rice cultivars and genotypes

EDTA-assisted Pb phytoextraction

Heavy metal partitioning in river sediments severely polluted by acid mine drainage in the Iberian Pyrite Belt

Heavy metal contamination of water, soil and produce within riverine communities of the Río Pilcomayo basin, Bolivia.

Behaviour of trace metals in soils depends upon complex reactions among micro-and macro cations and anions, and different components of various soil phases: solid, aqueous and gaseous. The main features of the soil biogeochemical system governing the behaviour of trace elements are: (1) heterogeneous distribution of compounds and components; (2) seasonal and spatial alteration of major soil variables; (3) transformation of element species; (4) transfer between phases; and (5) bioaccumulation.

Alina Kabata-Pendias

Papers

Agricultural Problems Related to Excessive Trace Metal Contents of Soils