TY - JOUR ID - baroni2004 AU - Baroni, F. AU - Boscagli, A. AU - Di Lella, L. A. AU - Protano, G. AU - Riccobono, F. TI - Arsenic in soil and vegetation of contaminated areas in southern Tuscany (Italy) UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375674203002085 DO - 10.1016/s0375-6742(03)00208-5 T2 - Journal of Geochemical Exploration PY - 2004 SN - 0375-6742 VL - 81 IS - 1–3 SP - 1-14 AB - Arsenic contents of soils and higher plants were surveyed in two former Sb-mining areas and in an old quarry once used for ochre extraction. Total As in the soils ranged from 5.3 to 2035.3 mg kg-1, soluble and extractable As from 0.01 to 8.5 and from 0.04 to 35.8 mg kg-1, respectively. The As concentrations in the different fractions of soil were correlated significantly or very significantly. Sixty-four plant species were analyzed. The highest As contents were found in roots and leaves of Mentha aquatica (540 and 216 mg kg-1, respectively) and in roots of Phragmites australis (688 mg kg-1). In general, the As contents of plants were low, especially in crops and in the most common wild species. In the analyzed species, roots usually showed the highest content followed by leaves and shoots. Arsenic levels in soils and plants were positively correlated, while the ability of the plants to accumulate the element (expressed by their Biological Accumulation Coefficients and Concentration Factors) was independent of the soil As content. Comparison with the literature data, relationships between the As contents in plants and soils, and biogeochemical and environmental aspects of these results are discussed. KW - Arsenic KW - Plant accumulation KW - Mining area KW - Soil contamination ER - TY - CONF ID - brunn2003 AU - Brunn, A. AU - Busch, W. AU - Dittmann, C. AU - Fischer, C. AU - Vosen, P. TI - Monitoring Mining Induced Plant Alteration and Change Detection in a German Coal Mining Area using Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery T2 - Spectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation Conference at the U.S. EPA Environmental Sciences Div. CY - Las Vegas, Nevada PY - 2003 DA - March 12-14th, 2003 ER - TY - JOUR ID - chevrel2002 AU - Chevrel, Stephane AU - Belocky, Reinhard AU - Grösel, Klemens TI - Monitoring and Assessing the Environmental Impact of Mining in Europe Using Advanced Earth Observation Techniques - MINEO T2 - Environmental Communication in the Information Society - Proceedings of the 16th Conference PY - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR ID - cole1984 AU - Cole, Monica M. AU - Smith, Roger F. TI - Vegetation as Indicator of Environmental Pollution UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/621782 T2 - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers PY - 1984 SN - 00202754 VL - 9 IS - 4 SP - 477-493 AB - The environment can be polluted by industrial emissions and effluents and by dumped waste materials from mines. Most pollutants constitute health hazards and some like mercury and lead can cause disease and death. Toxic conditions can also occur in the natural environment notably where mineral elements, particularly heavy metals emanating from orebodies, enter the soils. Here metal concentration, although much lower than over mine dumps, frequently results in changes in the vegetation whereby the characteristic species give way to metal-tolerant species. Some of these indicator plants restrict their uptake of heavy metals whereas others accumulate them. The indicator plants reveal the presence of mineralization in sub-surface bedrock, including economic orebodies and may also outline areas contaminated by man's activities. They constitute the most suitable species for the reclamation of polluted areas. Examples of communities of indicator plants occupying naturally toxic ground over recently discovered copper, lead-zinc and nickel deposits in Africa, Australia and the UK are given and the presence of the same species over contaminated ground near smelters in Australia and in a meadow contaminated by run-off from old mines in Europe are cited. KW - Vegetation, Minerals, Indicator plants, Metal-tolerance, Mining, Pollution, Environment, Australia, Africa, Lrnited Kingdom ER - TY - JOUR ID - eyers2004 AU - Eyers, R. D. AU - Mills, J. P. TI - Subsidence Detection Using Integrated Multi Temporal Airborne Imagery T2 - INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY REMOTE SENSING AND SPATIAL INFORMATION SCIENCES PY - 2004 SN - 1682-1750 VL - 35 IS - 7 SP - 714-719 ER - TY - CONF ID - eyers2004-2 AU - Eyers, R. D. AU - Mills, J. P. AU - Cutler, M. E. J. TI - The topographic and spectral expression of mining subsidence T2 - Annual Conference of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society RSPSoc2004) CY - Aberdeen PY - 2004 DA - 7-10 September 2004 ER - TY - CONF ID - fischer2002 AU - Fischer, Christian TI - Use of GIS and Multitemporal Imaging Spectrometer data for Modelling and Mapping Environmental Changes in Mining Areas T2 - ISPRS Commission IV Symposium “Geospatial Theory, Processing and Applications” CY - Ottawa PY - 2002 DA - 8 – 12 July 2002 SN - 1682-1750 VL - 14 SP - 460-464 ER - TY - ELEC ID - idb AU - Henrich, V. AU - Krauss, G. AU - Götze, C. AU - Sandow, C. 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