J. A. Cooke

TL;DR: In this paper, the current state of metallophyte research is identified, and advocates future research needs for the conservation of metalophyte biodiversity and sustainable uses of metalliophyte species in restoration, rehabilitation, contaminated site remediation, and other nascent phytotechnologies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the restoration of mined land in practice can largely be considered, considering the removal of soil and vegetation and burial beneath waste disposal sites, which causes the destruction of natural ecosystems.

TL;DR: The total body concentrations of Pb, Cd, and fluoride were higher at the contaminated grassland site established on fluorspar tailings compared to an uncontaminated control site for all three species of small mammal, Apodemus sylvaticus, Microtus agrestis and Sorex araneus.

TL;DR: Field exposure of grass in pots of uncontaminated soil and a laboratory experiment using soils from near the smelter suggested that the antimony in vegetation was largely due to continued aerial deposition and not to uptake from soil.

TL;DR: Based on critical tissue concentrations, the ecotoxicological risk to a wild population of bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus), associated with total substrate levels of 1 μgg−1 dry weight Cd and 700 μg g−1dry weight Zn at this mine site is negligible, but that associated with 4000 μg g −1 dry Weight Pb may be considered significant.