Trace metals in Phragmites australis and Phalaris arundinacea growing in constructed and natural wetlands

Vymazal, Jan; Švehla, Jaroslav; Kröpfelová, Lenka; Chrastný, Vladislav

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.01.057

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“…Vymazal et al [49] claimed that heavy metals levels were reduced in the order of roots > rhizomes ≥ leaves > stems of the reed plants and that the heavy metal (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn) levels in the shoots and roots plant tissues were the same as those reported for plants growing in natural ecosystems. However, these levels were much less than for plants that were irrigated with mines, smelters, or highway drainage waters.…”

Section: Advances In Bioremediation and Phytoremediationmentioning

confidence: 84%

“…Water contaminants are classically removed using different procedures such as flotation, membrane filtration, aeration, precipitation, coagulation-flocculation, ion exchange, and electrochemical treatment [34,48]. These classical procedures are thoroughly discussed in the literature [49,50]. However, these procedures are costly and have prompted the use of new techniques, such as phytoremediation.…”

Section: Water Pollution Treatment Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…PA plants are aquatic perennial grass [103]. A number of studies have been conducted on PA plants growth and development [104], mineral content [105], response to heavy metals [49,104,[106][107][108], response to salt stress, [108,109] as well as the different reed plant subspecies phenotypic, genotypic, evasive characteristics [49,96,109]. The results on the available research studies indicated that reed plant species significantly differ in their response to salt stress [102,109,110], this could be due to genotypic differences [103,111].…”

Section: Use Of Plants For the Treatment Of Pollutantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Drainage water or water contaminated with micro-and macro-organism has complications regarding specific cells and tissues differences, within cells transport level, consanguinity of chelating particles, as well as transport efficacy that can influence the rate of mineral accumulation [118], as well as operations like movement and uptake of ions from the soil solution, assortment and retention inside the root system, effectiveness of xylem for loading and transmitting of ions, allocation of ions in the different ion sinks in the shoot, confinement and pilling of the various ions in leaf cell [49].…”

Section: Heavy Metal Accumulation In Plant Speciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Pollution of Water by Trace Elements Research Trends

Alakeel¹

2018

Advances in Bioremediation and Phytoremediation

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Water pollution has been a growing issue for the last decades. This is mainly because of the boost in human population, and the motivations that lead to technological advances for the welfare of the society. Water pollution originates from different sources such as agricultural, municipal, industrial, and landfills drainage waters. These pollutants, which are either organic, nutrient, or heavy metals pollutants, are very deleterious to the natural ecosystems and eventually harmful to humans. Different procedures have been proposed for handling heavy metals water pollution, which encompass electro-osmosis, ion exchange, electrokinetic, sludge activation, as well as phytoextraction. Water contaminants are also removed using flotation, membrane filtration, aeration, precipitation, coagulation-flocculation, ion exchange, and electrochemical treatment. These procedures are costly and have prompted the use of other techniques, such as phytoremediation. Phytoremediation involves the utilization of plant species to alleviate the impacts of environmental pollution. It could be implemented to eliminate pollutants from various natural ecosystems including water, soil, and air or to develop new vegetation growth on disturbed or barren ground. Different plant species have been used for phytoremediation. This chapter addresses trace elements pollution of natural water resources in details and the abilities of Aquatic plant communities such as Reed plants (Phragmites australis) to absorb soluble trace elements from water.

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Section: Water Pollution Treatment Methodsmentioning

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Section: Use Of Plants For the Treatment Of Pollutantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Heavy Metal Accumulation In Plant Speciesmentioning

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The Pollution of Water by Trace Elements Research Trends

Alakeel¹

2018

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“…Constructed wetland is a type of sewage treatment process that began to develop in the 1970s (Hattermann et al, 2006;Vymazal et al, 2007). The constructed wetland treatment system artificially batches sewage with land that is usually in a submerged state and has aquatic plants growing (such as reeds, cattails, etc.…”

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Impacts of different media on constructed wetlands for rural household sewage treatment

Zhang

Wang

et al. 2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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a b s t r a c tConstructed wetland systems have been used for treating a variety of household and industrial wastewater; they are a wastewater treatment technology that has high economic efficiency and environmental effectiveness, especially for sewage treatment in rural areas. Medium filler plays an important role in wetland sewage treatment processes. By carrying out a problem analysis of the ineffective operation and treatment of traditional wetlands, this paper designs different constructed wetland fillers to treat rural household sewage. Using the same plants, this paper chooses four different fillers, namely maifanite, steel slag, bamboo charcoal and limestone as substrates to build constructed wetland systems, and studies rural household sewage treatment in order to examine their effects on the degradation of pollutants. The results show the removal efficiencies obtain good effect. The theoretical maximum adsorption capacities of all these media are ordered as: maifanite > steel slag > bamboo charcoal > limestone. The effluent water quality meets the first class A standard of the "Discharge standard of pollutants for municipal wastewater treatment plant" (GB18918-2002). The selection of medium has an important significance for the operating results of constructed wetland sewage treatment systems.

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A Comparative Study of Nutrients, Cadmium, and Chromium Bioremoval Efficiencies of Three Emergent Macrophytes From a Metal‐Contaminated Wastewater

Kouki

Saidi

Mhiri

et al. 2015

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A comparative study of the metal tolerance and removal capacities of three emergent macrophyte species was established in an artificially contaminated wastewater. The removal efficiencies of chromium (Cr), cadmium (Cd), ammoniacal-nitrogen (NH 4 -N), nitrate-nitrogen (NO 3 -N), and ortho-phosphate (PO 4 -P) by mono-cultures of Arundo donax, Phragmites communis, and Typha latifolia were determined. The leaf number as well as Crand Cd-plant tissue contents were assessed after 15 days of exposure to metal concentration gradients. Arundo donax achieved the highest removal efficiencies of NH 4 -N (72%) and PO 4 -P (83%). However, P. communis and T. latifolia accomplished significantly higher reduction rates of NO 3 -N (86 and 82%, respectively). With exposure to the wastewater metal contamination, A. donax was more resistant than the other two species and produced the highest leaf number for both pollutants Cr (13 leaves at 20 mg Cr/L) and Cd (14 leaves at 2 ppm). In addition, compared to P. communis and T. latifolia, A. donax showed significantly higher accumulative capacities for Cr and Cd in terms of dry weight (DW) of the plant biomass in both belowground (16.9 mg Cr/kg DW, 189 mg Cd/kg DW) and aboveground (10.1 mg Cr/kg DW, 130 mg Cd/kg DW) parts.

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Trace metals in Phragmites australis and Phalaris arundinacea growing in constructed and natural wetlands

Cited by 119 publications

References 18 publications

The Pollution of Water by Trace Elements Research Trends

The Pollution of Water by Trace Elements Research Trends

Impacts of different media on constructed wetlands for rural household sewage treatment

A Comparative Study of Nutrients, Cadmium, and Chromium Bioremoval Efficiencies of Three Emergent Macrophytes From a Metal‐Contaminated Wastewater

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