TY - BOOK ID - 145924848 TI - Soil Contamination by Heavy Metals and Metalloids PY - 2022 PB - Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Research & information: general KW - PTE KW - anthropogenic soils KW - Technosols KW - trace elements KW - heavy metals KW - urban agriculture KW - heavy metal availability KW - enrichment factor KW - redox KW - biochar KW - cadmium KW - lead KW - contaminated paddy soil KW - short- and long-term mechanisms KW - ACC deaminase KW - heavy metal stress KW - PGPR KW - fertilizers KW - nutrients KW - yield KW - selenium KW - acid soils KW - alkaline soils KW - adsorption KW - desorption KW - Freundlich KW - Langmuir KW - Mediterranean soils KW - vehicular emissions KW - road age KW - diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) KW - metal dissociation time (Tc) KW - wheat assay KW - optimised linear model KW - biochar application rates KW - metal accumulation KW - nitrogen KW - ryegrass KW - PTE KW - anthropogenic soils KW - Technosols KW - trace elements KW - heavy metals KW - urban agriculture KW - heavy metal availability KW - enrichment factor KW - redox KW - biochar KW - cadmium KW - lead KW - contaminated paddy soil KW - short- and long-term mechanisms KW - ACC deaminase KW - heavy metal stress KW - PGPR KW - fertilizers KW - nutrients KW - yield KW - selenium KW - acid soils KW - alkaline soils KW - adsorption KW - desorption KW - Freundlich KW - Langmuir KW - Mediterranean soils KW - vehicular emissions KW - road age KW - diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) KW - metal dissociation time (Tc) KW - wheat assay KW - optimised linear model KW - biochar application rates KW - metal accumulation KW - nitrogen KW - ryegrass UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145924848 AB - Soil contamination has been identified as one of the main threats to soil, inducing the degradation of global soils and driving long-term losses of the ecosystem services that they provide. As a result of human activities, the amount of soil contamination caused by heavy metal(loid)s has severely increased over the last few decades and has become a worldwide environmental issue that has attracted considerable public attention. Although many research efforts have highlighted how soil contamination is a global threat and provided an overview of the importance of healthy soil, there is still a great need for additional information from different regions around the world, and concrete strategies, which can be implemented to address the causes and impacts of this major threat, urgently need to be developed. In this context, this book was launched with the scope of bringing together articles presenting the development of novel science-based methods and applications that enhance the remediation of contaminated soil by focusing on the identification of the main sources of soil contamination caused by heavy metal(loid)s (HM)/potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in different soil types; the chemistry, potential mobility, and bioavailability of the contaminants that are commonly found in contaminated soils; the assessment of the negative impacts and risks associated with HM/PTE-induced soil contamination on crop yields; soil biota, food security, and human health; and the available methods and strategies for monitoring, assessing, and remediating soils that have been contaminated by HM/PTEs. ER -