Soil Contamination by Heavy Metals and Metalloids
Dionisios Gasparatos
Abstract
Soils are central to life on Earth because they provide food, clean water, and air due to their filtering capacity; raw materials; habitats for living organisms; and climate resilience via carbon sequestration, therefore supporting a variety of ecosystem services [...]
Topics & Concepts
Environmental scienceContaminationSoil waterEcosystemResilience (materials science)Ecosystem servicesEnvironmental chemistryHeavy metalsMetalloidSoil contaminationCarbon sequestrationEnvironmental protectionEcologySoil scienceCarbon dioxideChemistryMetalBiologyPhysicsThermodynamicsOrganic chemistryHeavy metals in environmentGeochemistry and Geologic MappingCoal and Its By-products