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The Method of Dynamic Factors in Bioindication and Phytoremediation

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Bioindication and phytoremediation are applied aspects of the accumulation of chemical elements in plants. The fields of bioindication and phytoremediation have required evaluating the processes of the absorption of chemical elements by plants, in order to be able to compare plants by their capacity to absorb chemical elements and to compare the chemical elements by their possibilities to get into plants. However, besides the biochemical viewpoint towards getting of chemical elements into plants, the biogeochemical attitude is also of great importance. The latter is concentrated on the link between a plant and its environment, firstly the soil.

In order to compare the changes in the process of uptake of chemical elements by different plants (by evaluating the geochemical changes in the area), to evaluate the influence of soil modification on chemical elements’ participation in the plants’ metabolism, and to provide a quantitative evaluation of the phytoremediation efficiency during a specific period of time, a quantitative method of evaluation is presented in this paper; the method is based on the dynamic factors of bioaccumulation, biophilicity, translocation, and phytoremediation.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The Plant–Soil Coefficient defines proportion of metal concentration in the plant’s ashes and the soil. In the works of other researchers, the concentration of metal in the plant has been recalculated on the basis of dry biomass.

  2. 2.

    There can be several levels of comparison of metal concentration in plants: (1) direct comparison of their concentration in biomass (incorrect because the concentration of respective metals in the soil that nourishes plants is not included); (2) bioconcentration (bioaccumulation) coefficients (the effect of higher or lower metal concentration in the soil on their uptake and accumulation in plants is not evaluated); (3) dynamic factors of bioaccumulation, which include the effect of soil metal concentration in control (background) and contaminated territories on their uptake and accumulation in plants.

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    The concepts and calculations of dynamic factors correspond to Baltrėnaitė et al. (2012) of the reference list.

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  1. Department of Environmental Protection, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Saulėtekio al. 11, 10223, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Edita Baltrėnaitė, Pranas Baltrėnas & Donatas Butkus

  2. Department of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, National Research Tomsk State University, Lenin Av. 36, 634050, Tomsk, Russia

    Arvydas Lietuvninkas

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Baltrėnaitė, E., Baltrėnas, P., Butkus, D., Lietuvninkas, A. (2015). The Method of Dynamic Factors in Bioindication and Phytoremediation. In: Ansari, A., Gill, S., Gill, R., Lanza, G., Newman, L. (eds) Phytoremediation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10395-2_2

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