Bayouli, Ines Terwayet Gómez-Gómez, Beatriz Bayouli, Houssem Terwayet Pérez-Corona, Teresa Meers, Erik Ammar, Emna Ferchichi, Ali Albarrán, Yolanda Madrid
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Arabian Journal of Geosciences
During the last decades, Southeastern Tunisia has suffered from an industrial expansion leading to a serious pollution problem. In this work, heavy metal contamination near Gabes cement plant (Southeastern Tunisia) was assessed in the soils and statistically compared with a control site located 12 km away. Soil samples were collected from 5 to 15 c...
Sterckeman, Thibault Gossiaux, lucas Guimont, Sophie Sirguey, Catherine
Human populations are threatened by chronic exposure to the Cd accumulated in foods after being taken up from soils by crops.To evaluate how phytoextraction with the hyperaccumulator Noccaea caerulescens as an annual crop or as a cover crop could modify the Cd mass balance in French agricultural soils, we simulated this process according to two sce...
Banerjee, Anurupa Biswas, Jayanta Kumar Pant, Deepak Sarkar, Binoy Chaudhuri, Punarbasu Rai, Mahendra Meers, Erik
This work aimed at elucidating the role of bacteria present in the gut of the earthworm Metaphire posthuma in plant growth promotion and toxic trace elements (TTEs) bioremediation. We isolated and identified three bacterial strains Bacillus safensis (MF 589718), Bacillus flexus (MF 589717) and Staphylococcus haemolyticus (MF 589719) among which the...
Deng, Teng-Hao-Bo Tang, Ye-Tao Sterckeman, Thibault Echevarria, Guillaume Morel, Jean-Louis Qiu, Rong-Liang
Nickel hyperaccumulators are a group of particular plant species which possess high efficient Ni uptake transport systems in their roots, the mechanisms of which however are far from being understood.Study on the interactions between nickel and other trace metals during root absorption process can provide insights into the Ni uptake patterns.Theref...
Thijs, Sofie Witters, Nele Janssen, Jolien Ruttens, Ann Weyens, Nele Herzig, Rolf Mench, Michel Van Slycken, Stijn Meers, Erik Meiresonne, Linda
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Frontiers in plant science
Phytoextraction could be a potential management option for diffusely Cd-Zn-Pb-polluted agricultural land in Northeast Belgium. The use of high yielding crops with a sufficiently high metal accumulation is preferred as these are expected to both gradually decontaminate the soil while generating an income through biomass valorization. To find out whi...
Angassa, Kenatu Leta, Seyoum Mulat, Worku Kloos, Helmut Meers, Erik
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Environmental Processes
Three pilot horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetlands (HSSFCWs) were constructed, covered with a geomembrane and filled with gravel media. The study compared the performance of the three pilot HSSFCWs, two planted with Vetiveria zizanioide and Phragmite karka, and one without plants, and all containing aeration facilities in treating municipa...
Michels, Evi Annicaert, Brecht De Moor, Sofie Van Nevel, Lotte De Fraeye, Matthias Meiresonne, L Vangronsveld, J Tack, Filip Ok, YS Meers, Erik
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Poplar clones were studied for their phytoextraction capacity in the second growth cycle (6-year growth) on a site in the Belgian Campine region, which is contaminated with Cd and Zn via historic atmospheric deposition of nearby zinc smelter activities. The field trial revealed regrowth problems for some clones that could not be predicted in the fi...
Hassi, Ummehani Hossain, Md. Tawhid Huq, S. M. Imamul
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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Dangers of arsenic contamination are well known in human civilization. The threat increases when arsenic is accumulated in food and livestock through irrigated crops or animal food. Hence, it is important to mitigate the effects of arsenic as much as possible. This paper discusses a process for reducing the level of arsenic in different parts of ri...
Cundy, A B Bardos, R P Puschenreiter, M Mench, M Bert, V Friesl-Hanl, W Müller, I Li, X N Weyens, N Witters, N
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Journal of environmental management
Gentle remediation options (GROs) are risk management strategies or technologies involving plant (phyto-), fungi (myco-), and/or bacteria-based methods that result in a net gain (or at least no gross reduction) in soil function as well as effective risk management. GRO strategies can be customised along contaminant linkages, and can generate a rang...
Sbabou, L. Idir, Y. Bruneel, Odile Le Quéré, Antoine Aurag, J. Béna, Gilles Filali-Maltouf, A.
