Kengbo Ding

TL;DR: Soil physico-chemical properties had major effect on metal availability where soil pH was the most important factor, and soil pH and EC were influenced by the local climate patterns which could further impact on heavy metal availability.

TL;DR: The results suggest that Cd isotope is a tracer for identifying and tracking Cd sources and attenuation mechanisms (adsorption/(co)precipitation) in a complex mountain watershed.

TL;DR: REE patterns indicated that the REE-associated large colloids were mineral or mixed mineral-organic matter (OM) at upstream sites and OM-dominated or functionalized at downstream sites.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors evaluated the ecosystem services that contaminated soils can potentially provide before and after remediation, and explored the connections between these ecosystem services and the achievement of soil security in China.

TL;DR: In this article, 16S rRNA analysis and genome-resolved metagenomics were performed on microbial community collected from a rare earth elements (REEs) contaminated river, and the results showed that REEs-AMD significantly changed river microbial diversity and shaped unique indicator species (e.g. Thaumarchaeota, Methylophilales, Rhodospirillales and Burkholderiales).