Implications of spatial heterogeneity of tailing material and time scale of vegetation growth processes for the design of phytostabilisation
| Autor: | Anja Grawunder, Andrei Nicoara, Marilena Onete, Stelian Ion, Aurora Neagoe, Paula Constantinescu, Virgil Iordache |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Environmental Engineering
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Environmental remediation Soil science Vegetation 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Pollution Tailings Spatial heterogeneity Nutrient Lysimeter Principal component analysis Environmental Chemistry Environmental science Scale (map) Waste Management and Disposal 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | The Science of the total environment. 692 |
| ISSN: | 1879-1026 |
| Popis: | Phytostabilisation projects for tailing dams depend on processes occurring at spatial scales of 106 m2 and at decadal time scales. Most experiments supporting the design and monitoring of such projects have much smaller spatial and time scales. Usually, they are only designed for one single scale. Here, we report the results of three coupled experiments performed at pot, lysimeter and field plot scales using six sampling periodstimes from 3 to 20 months. The work explicitly accounts for the sampling times when evaluating the effects of amendments on the performance of plants grown in tailing substrates. Two treatments with potentially complementary roles were applied: zeolites to decrease availability of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn and green fertilizer to increase the availability of nutrients. Zeolites have a positive influence on plant development, especially in the early stages. Analyses of the pooled datasets for all sampling times revealed the possibility of predicting plant physiological variables, such as protein concentrations, pigments and oxidative stress enzyme activities, as a function of the factors extracted by principal component analysis from the metal concentrations in plants, phosphorus concentrations in plants, and sampling times. Two potentially general methodological rules were extracted: account for the spatial geochemical variability of tailings, and cover the broadest possible range of time scales by experiments. The proposed experimental methodology can be of general use for the design of tailing dam remediation technologies with improvements involving the set of measured variables and sampling frequency and by carefully relating the costs to the institutional aspects of tailing dam management. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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