Soil heavy metal contamination is a major environmental concern, and the ecological risk
associated with heavy metals is increasing. In this paper, we investigated heavy metal …

Climate change has threatened global food security. There is an unrelenting need to
understand various factors associated with abiotic stress and their response, adaptability …

Acid mine drainages (AMD) contain high concentrations of heavy metals, and their
discharges into streams and rivers constitute serious environmental problems. This article …

Lead contamination in China has been extensively documented by scientists in China and
elsewhere over the past two decades, as summarized in this review of articles published in …

In present study, the feasibility of applying a natural adsorbent with Fe 3+ modification (Fe
3+-modified argillaceous limestone, FAL) on the competitive adsorption of heavy metals (ie …

The relative severity between chromium (Cr)-mediated ecotoxicity and its bioaccumulation
has rarely been compared and evaluated. This study employed pot incubation experiments …

This study focused on the potential of using soil microbial biomass, enzyme and
mineralization activities involved in organic C, N and P turnover, to evaluate the quality of a …

Abstract Knowledge of the speciation of heavy metals and the role of dissolved organic
matter (DOM) in soil solution is a key to understand metal mobility and ecotoxicity. In this …

An immunochromatographic assay (ICA) using gold nanoparticles coated with monoclonal
antibody (McAb) for the detection of chromium ions (Cr) in water and serum samples was …

Abstract Owing to the Industrial Revolution in the late 1970s, heavy metal pollution has been
regarded as a serious threat to mangrove ecosystems in the region of the Pearl River …