Plants growing on metal contaminated soils can uptake heavy metals and accumulate them
in their tissues; the accumulation of potentially toxic elements can produce adverse effects …

Since the dawn of civilization until the last decades of the past century, mining activity,
especially that concerning base and precious metals, represented a resource for human …

Contamination by heavy metals in soils may strongly affect the environmental quality. Lipid
peroxidation caused by heavy metals in plants was investigated as a relevant bioassay of …

Human activities such as metals mining and milling operations provide one of the most
important sources of contamination in the environment. Abandoned mines can be an …

Soil contamination may influence negatively soil health, which often limits and sometimes
disqualifies soil biodiversity and decreases plant growth. However, the increased …

Purpose Heavy metal accumulation produces significant physiological and biochemical
responses in vascular plants. Plants growing on abandoned mine sites are of particular …

Historical pollution can be elucidated with variations of elements' concentration in tree rings
by using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) …

Macro-and micronutrients concentrations and PTEs contents in soils and plants (rice) from
the rice district in the Venetian territory (NE Italy) have been determined by Inductive …

Exploitation of ore minerals (cinnabar, chalcopyrite, sphalerite) from the old mine in Vallalta
(Belluno, NE Italy) has resulted in serious environmental impacts, including the acidification …

Purpose The present paper concerns the distribution and mobility of heavy metals (Cu, Pb,
Zn and Fe) in the soils of some abandoned mine sites in Italy and their transfer to wild flora …