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"In situ" biomonitoring of a polluted environment by wild and crop plant species / Karol Mičieta and Gustáv Murín.

Mičieta, Karol, (author.). Murín, Gustáv, (author.).

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ISBN: 9781536142761 (hbk.)
ISBN: 153614276X (hbk.)
Physical Description: 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Publisher: New York: Nova Science Publishers, [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Materials and Methods -- Chapter 3. Adaptations of Higher Plants to the Environmental Stress Caused by Heavy Metal Pollution of Soil in Industrial Complexes -- Chapter 4. The Bio-Indication of Pollution in Urban-Industrial Complexes -- Chapter 5. Wild Plant Species in the Bio-Indication of Radioactive-Contaminated Sites as Compared with Radio-Resistance of Plants in Laboratory Tests -- Chapter 6. Genotoxicity of Oil Pollution on Some Species of Kuwaiti Flora -- Chapter 7. Examples of Remediation from Central Europe -- Chapter 8. Retrospective Biomonitoring: A Hundred Years of Environmental Pollution at Selected Areas in Slovakia -- Chapter 9. Parallel Plant Test of Phytotoxicity and Mutagenicity Presented on Practical Examples of Environmentally Polluted Sites in Slovakia, Central Europe -- Chapter 10. Conclusions and Perspectives -- References.