Remediating polluted soils

J Scullion - Naturwissenschaften, 2006 - Springer
This review focuses on treatment-based remediation of soils and the acquisition of data to
support and monitor this remediation. Only in the last two decades has significant progress …

Phytodiversity on fly ash deposits: evaluation of naturally colonized species for sustainable phytorestoration

VC Pandey, P Prakash, O Bajpai, A Kumar… - … Science and Pollution …, 2015 - Springer
Proliferation of fly ash (FA) deposits and its toxicity have become a global concern, which
contaminate the ecosystems of our Earth. In this regard, identification of potential plant …

Assisted phytoremediation of fly ash dumps through naturally colonized plants

VC Pandey - Ecological Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
The present article briefly describes a strategy regarding the remediation and management
of fly ash (FA) dumps to mitigate all environmental problems of FA hazards. The onsite …

Plant diversity and ecological potential of naturally colonizing vegetation for ecorestoration of fly ash disposal area

S Yadav, VC Pandey, M Kumar, L Singh - Ecological Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Fly ash dump has been noticed as one of the hazardous dumpsites on the earth, which
pollutes our environment. Therefore, an affordable and effective approach for the restoration …

Investigating the recovery in ecosystem functions and multifunctionality after 10 years of natural revegetation on fly ash technosol

AK Singh, X Zhu, C Chen, B Yang, VC Pandey… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Technogenic soil (technosol) developed from coal fly ash (FA) landfilling has been
considered a critical environmental problem worldwide. Drought-tolerant plants often …

Pedological properties and ecological implications of substrates derived 3 and 11 years after the revegetation of lignite fly ash disposal sites in Serbia

O Kostić, S Jarić, G Gajić, D Pavlović, M Pavlović… - Catena, 2018 - Elsevier
The revegetation of disposal sites of lignite fly ash (FA) offers the best way to overcome the
extremely serious problems which their deposition via sluicing into settling ponds can pose …

An assessment of the phytoremediation potential of planted and spontaneously colonized woody plant species on chronosequence fly ash disposal sites in Serbia …

O Kostić, G Gajić, S Jarić, T Vukov, M Matić, M Mitrović… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this study, the potential of planted (Tamarix tetrandra Pall. ex M. Bieb. and Robinia
pseudoacacia L.) and spontaneously colonized (Amorpha fruticosa L. and Populus alba L.) …

Direct seeding offers affordable restoration for fly ash deposits

VC Pandey - Energy, Ecology and Environment, 2022 - Springer
Fly ash deposits cover significant areas throughout the world, and have extremely adverse
environmental effects on ecosystems and landscapes. Natural colonization by native plant …

Functional response of Betula species to edaphic and nutrient stress during restoration of fly ash deposits in the Middle Urals (Russia)

IV Kalashnikova, SV Migalina, DA Ronzhina… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
We studied the impact of fly ash produced by the thermal power station in the Middle Urals
(Russia) on functional traits of two Betula species naturally colonizing ash dump lagoons …

Natural revegetation of coal fly ash in a highly saline disposal lagoon in Hong Kong

LM Chu - Applied Vegetation Science, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Question: What is the relationship of the naturally colonizing vegetation and substrate
characteristics in fly ash lagoons? Location: West lagoon, Deep Bay, a 13‐ha coastal lagoon …