Migration and Diffusion of Heavy Metals and Metalloids in Agri-Soil Systems
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Soils".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 116
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental science and engineering; contaminant fate and transport; soil remediation; water and wastewater treatment; environmental biotechnology; recovery of metal(loid)s
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Interests: plant biochemistry; molecular biology; microbiology; plant genetics; plant detoxification; environmental remediation; plant–microbe interactions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agricultural soil is a long-term sink for heavy metals and metalloids. Both natural input and anthropogenic input contribute to their accumulation in agricultural soil. The accumulation, diffusion, and migration of heavy metals and metalloids in agricultural soil systems pose a serious threat to the health of the agricultural ecosystem, animals, and humans. Therefore, it is of vital importance to gain a deeper understanding of the characteristics of diffusion and migration of heavy metals and metalloids, e.g., Zn, Pb, Se, Cu, Cd, and Cr, etc., in agricultural soil systems. This Special Issue welcomes scientific contributions to the aforementioned topic. High-quality original research and reviews are accepted.
Areas of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The migration and transformation of heavy metals and metalloids in soil and plants;
- Sources and accumulation of heavy metals and metalloids in agricultural systems;
- Distribution and forms of metal(loid)s in agri-soil systems;
- Environmental or health risk assessment on the migration of metal(loid)s;
- Mathematical modeling and numerical simulation for the migration of metal(loid)s on regional or large scales;
- Amendments to reduce the bioavailability and plant accumulation of metal(loid)s in agricultural soil.
Dr. Zhiming Zhang
Prof. Dr. Rupali Datta
Dr. Chenxi Zhai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heavy metals
- metalloids
- agricultural soil
- migration
- diffusion
- transformation
- sources and distribution
- risk assessment
- remediation
