Following a description of the various sources and factors influencing the contents of heavy
metal pollution in post-catastrophic and agricultural soils subsequent chapters examine soil
enzymes and eggs as bio-monitors lead adsorption the effects of arsenic on microbial
diversity and the effects of Mediterranean grasslands on abandoned mines. A third section
focuses on the adaptation strategies used by plants and bacteria such as Pinus sylvestris in
industrial areas and the rhizosphere in contaminated tropical soils and soil treated with
sewage sludge. Further topics addressed include strategies of bioremediation e.g. using
transgenic plants as tools for soil remediation. This new volume on heavy metals in soil will
be of interest to researchers and scholars in microbial and plant biotechnology agriculture
the environmental sciences and soil ecology.
