Heavy Metals In Soils Trace Metals And Metalloids In Soils And Their Bioavailability

Brian J. Alloway

This book covers the general principles of the occurrence, analysis, soil chemical behaviour and soil-plant-animal aspects of heavy metals and metalloids, followed by more detailed coverage of 21 elements: antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gold, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, silver, thallium, tin, tungsten, uranium, vanadium and zinc. This third edition of the book has been completely rewritten by mainly new authors and is now divided into three sections:  1: Basic Principles  2: Key Heavy Metals and Metalloids 3: Other Heavy Metals and Metalloids of Potential Environmental Significance  The scope has been widened with four new chapters in Section 1 dealing with toxicity in soil organisms, soil-plant relationships, heavy metals and metalloids as micronutrients for plants and/or animals, and the modelling of critical loads of heavy...