Behaviour of Strontium in Plants and the Environment

by Dharmendra K. Gupta (Editor), Clemens Walther (Editor)

Overview

This book provides extensive and comprehensive knowledge to researchers and academics who work on strontium contaminated areas. Topics covered include impact on plants and environment, as well as remediation strategies.

This book will inform graduate and undergraduate students who are specializing in radioecology, especially strontium uptake via soil to plants, safe disposal of strontium waste, remediation legacies and impact of strontium waste material on the natural and manmade environment. A broad overview of reviews is provided covering a number of original publications on strontium plant uptake, including case studies that present the latest technological developments and future trends for investigating strontium mobility in soil and treatment of strontium contaminated areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319665733
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	10/28/2017
Edition description:	1st ed. 2018
Pages:	170
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dharmendra K. Gupta is Sr. Scientist of environmental biotechnology/radioecology and already published more than 80 refereed research papers/review articles in peer reviewed journals and edited ten books. His field of research includes abiotic stress by radionuclides/heavy metals and xenobiotics in plants; antioxidative system in plants, environmental pollution (radionuclides/heavy metals) remediation through plants (phytoremediation).

Clemens Walther is professor of radioecology and radiation protection and director of the Institute for Radioecology and Radiation Protection at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. He published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed journals. His field of research is actinide chemistry with a focus on solution species and formation of colloids, ultra-trace detection and speciation of radionuclides in the environment by mass spectrometry and laser spectroscopy.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Strontium in the ecosystem: Transfer in plants via root system.- Chapter 2. Factors influencing the soil to plant transfer of strontium.- Chapter 3. Distribution of strontium in soil: interception, weathering, speciation and translocation to plants.- Chapter 4. Assessment of entry of 90Sr into plants in case of a heterogeneous radiation contamination of ecosystems.- Chapter 5. Accumulation of 90Sr by plants of different taxonomic groups from the soils at the East Ural Radioactive Trace.- Chapter 6. Soil-to-crop transfer factors (TFs) of alkaline earth elements and comparison of TFs of stable Sr with those of global fallout 90Sr.- Chapter 7. 90Sr distribution in system “soil-Scots pine” (Pinus sylvestris L.).- Chapter 8. Contamination of the firewood taken from the exclusion zone of Chernobyl NPP by 90Sr according to data of 2005-2016.- Chapter 9. The behaviour of 90Sr in macrophytes inhibiting water reservoirs in the Belarussian sector of the Chernobyl NPP exclusion zone.- Chapter 10. Strontium isotopes in biological material: a key tool for the geographic traceability of foods and humans beings.