Soil contamination with multiple heavy metals poses threats to human health and ecosystem
functioning. Using the Nemerow pollution index, which considers the effects of multiple …

As a global pollution problem, heavy metal contamination poses a serious hazard to soil
microorganisms which play an extremely important role in soil chemical cycling and …

Overexploitation of iron mining in China has caused serious environmental pollution.
Therefore, establishing a stable ecological restoration with vegetation in mining areas has …

Phytoextraction is an in situ remediation technique that uses (hyper) accumulator plant
species to extract metal (loid) s from contaminated soils. Field studies can help in selecting …

Excess heavy metals, especially copper (Cu) and cadmium (Cd), are common in paddy soils
in the red soil hilly areas of southern China. Microorganisms are regulators of soil organic …

Understanding the changes in microbial community composition in wetlands affected by
different types of degradation can help enrich theoretical knowledge about wetland …

Background and aims Karst rocky desertification (KRD), a land degradation form which is
widespread but unique to karst ecosystems, has become an ecological disaster in southwest …

Soil fungi have been widely studied, but the effects of heavy metal contamination at various
levels as well as the abundance and diversity of heavy metal tolerant fungi in the …

Chromium (Cr) contamination has been of great concern in agricultural soil health due to its
persistence, toxicity and bioaccumulation. Fungi, as an essential regulator of soil …

Investigations into the edaphic associations, host affiliations and soil depth of dark septate
endophytes (DSE) in arid desert environments can help explain their spatial distribution and …