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  title info:
    title: Phytoremediation: Role of Aquatic Plants in Environmental Clean-Up
  name:
    name part: Dhir, Bhupinder.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ii
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 111 p. 20 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Contamination of the different components of environment through industrial and anthropogenic activities have guided new eras of research. This has lead to development of strategies/methodologies to curtail/minimize environmental contamination. Research studies conducted all over the globe established that bioremediation play a promising role in minimizing environmental contamination. In the last decade, phytoremediation studies have been conducted on a vast scale. Initial research in this scenario focused on screening terrestrial plant species that remove contaminants from soil and air. Later, scientific community realized that water is a basic necessity for sustaining life on earth and quality of which is getting deteriorated day by day. This initiated studies on phytoremediation using aquatic plants. Role of aquatic plant species in cleaning water bodies was also explored. Many of the aquatic plant species showed potential to treat domestic, municipal and industrial wastewaters and hence their use in constructed wetlands for treating wastewaters was emphasized. The present book contains five chapters. First two chapters provide information about types of contaminants commonly reported in wastewaters and enlists some important and well studied aquatic plant species known for their potential to remove various contaminants from wastewater. Subsequent chapters deal with mechanisms involved in contaminant removal by aquatic plant species, and also provide detailed information about role of aquatic plant species in wetlands. Potential of constructed wetlands in cleaning domestic and industrial wastewaters has also been discussed in detail. The strategy for enhancing phytoremediation capacity of plants by different means and effectiveness of phytoremediation technology in terms of monitory benefits has been discussed in last chapter. Last chapter also emphasizes the future aspects of this technology.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Contaminants in aquatic environment -- Wastewater treatment methods -- Bioremediation -- Phytoremediation technology -- Plant species used in phytoremediation technology -- Aquatic plant species and removal of contaminants -- Contaminants removed by aquatic plants -- Major plant species -- Other aquatic plant species -- Mechanism of removal of contaminants by aquatic plants -- Inorganic contaminants -- Organic contaminants. Role of Wetlands -- Constructed wetlands -- Mechanism of contaminant removal -- Contaminants removed by wetlands -- Limitations -- Future -- Future Prospects -- Biotechnological approach -- Limitations -- Cost analysis -- Conclusions and future development. .
  note: by Bhupinder Dhir.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Plant ecology
  subject:
    topic: Plant science
  subject:
    topic: Botany
  subject:
    topic: Ecotoxicology
  subject:
    topic: Pollution
  subject:
    topic: Water pollution
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Ecotoxicology
  subject:
    topic: Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution
  subject:
    topic: Pollution, general
  subject:
    topic: Plant Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Plant Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  classification: GE1-350
  classification: 571.95
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9788132213079
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1307-9
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