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dc.contributor.authorPrica, Milijanaen_US
dc.contributor.authorAndrejić, Gordanaen_US
dc.contributor.authorŠinžar Sekulić, Jasminaen_US
dc.contributor.authorRakić, Tamaraen_US
dc.contributor.authorDželetović, Željkoen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-17T13:56:22Z-
dc.date.available2019-10-17T13:56:22Z-
dc.date.issued2019-04-01-
dc.identifier.issn1821-2158-
dc.identifier.urihttps://biore.bio.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1946-
dc.description.abstract© 2019 Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden Jevremovac, Belgrad. Heavy metal contamination of aquatic ecosystems directly threatens the health, production and biodiversity of aquatic and surrounding terrestrial ecosystems, and it represents a serious global problem. Metal extraction during ore processing produces large amounts of wastes that remain in tailings at the mining site. Fine waste particles represent a long-term source of potentially toxic metals that can be released into the ground and surface water as a result of their progressive chemical weathering. Aquatic macrophythes have a major role in absorption and accumulation of heavy metals and thereby in natural water purification. The presence of naturally growing plants on mine tailing ponds indicates their tolerance of heavy metal pollution and suggests a possible role for them in phytoremediation. In the present study, we analysed the concentrations of heavy metals (Fe, Mn, Ni, Zn, Pb, Cd, Co, Cu) in Phragmites australis plants growing spontaneously in shallow water of several mine tailing ponds. The aims of the study were to define chemical properties of the mine spoils, determine the concentrations of heavy metals in different plant organs and assess the phytoremediation potential of common reed. The investigated sediments were notably rich in both total and available forms of Fe, Pb, Zn and Cu, with their upper concentrations close to phytotoxic levels. The greatest amounts of almost all of the investigated metals in plants from all three mine tailing ponds were found in the roots, with their concentrations positively correlated with the amounts of their available forms in the corresponding sediment. The far higher metal concentrations in the roots in comparison with other plant organs clearly indicate that the metals were strongly sequestrated within root cortical tissues and were not transferred across the endodermis. Taken altogether, the presence of the greatest amounts of metals in roots, high bioaccumulation factor and low translocation factor show that P. australis is an excluder plant species with a good phytostabilisation potential. As such, it might be efficiently used in rhizofiltration of wastewaters.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofBotanica Serbicaen_US
dc.subjectCommon reeden_US
dc.subjectPhytostabilisationen_US
dc.subjectRhizofiltrationen_US
dc.subjectToxic metalsen_US
dc.titleBioaccumulation of heavy metals in common reed (Phragmites australis) growing spontaneously on highly contaminated mine tailing ponds in Serbia and potential use of this species in phytoremediationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.2298/BOTSERB1901085P-
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85066977358-
dc.identifier.urlhttps://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85066977358-
dc.description.rankM23-
dc.description.impact0.468-
item.languageiso639-1en-
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item.openairecristypehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf-
crisitem.author.deptChair of Plant Ecology and Phytogeography-
crisitem.author.deptChair of Plant Ecology and Phytogeography-
crisitem.author.deptChair of Plant Ecology and Phytogeography-
crisitem.author.orcid0000-0001-6088-9866-
crisitem.author.orcid0000-0002-8181-7164-
crisitem.author.orcid0000-0001-6959-3439-
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