Given their sessile nature, plants continuously face unfavorable conditions throughout their
life cycle, including water scarcity, extreme temperatures and soil pollution. Among all, metal …

The Tinto and Odiel Rivers are strongly affected by acid mine drainage (AMD) due to the
intense sulphide mining developed in their basins over the past 5000 years. In this study the …

Relationship between toxicity and bioavailable metals in sediments from the Huelva estuary
and its littoral of influence was analyzed. Toxicity was assessed with Microtox® bioassay …

The halophytic shrub Halimione portulacoides is known to be capable of growth in soils
containing extremely high concentrations of Zn. This study evaluated in detail the tolerance …

The bioavailable fraction of metals (Zn, Cu, Cd, Mn, Pb, Ni, Fe, and Cr) in sediments of the
Huelva estuary and its littoral of influence has been estimated carrying out the most popular …

Spartina maritima is an ecosystem engineer that has shown to be useful for
phytoremediation purposes. A glasshouse experiment using soil from a metal-contaminated …

The Gulf of Cádiz is an area historically affected by acid mine drainage and also by the
discharge of two important rivers, the Guadiana and the Guadalquivir. Metal and metalloid …

The aim of our work was the isolation and characterization of bacteria from the rhizosphere
of Spartina maritima in the metal contaminated Odiel estuary (Huelva, SW Spain). From 25 …

Spartina densiflora Brongn. is found in coastal marshes of southwest Spain, growing over
sediments containing 100–4800 ppm Zn. A glasshouse experiment was designed to …

There has been a significant increase in the application of unsupervised pattern-recognition
techniques to the analysis of long datasets emerging from the monitoring of metal pollution …