Gondek et al. (2018) investigate the mobility of heavy metals in sandy soil after application of composts produced from maize straw, sewage sludge and biochar. The authors made a little attention to role of the soil properties and soil condition on the metals chemical behavior. In different section of the paper, the authors reported that the content of the metals extracted with water or 1 M NHNO was changed compared to the control treatment affected by the mentioned biosolids. Nowadays, different researches have shown that the trace metals nature have an important role in determining their fate in presence of different treatments. In addition to, organic compounds entered to the soil due to biosolids applications have a duplicate role in trace metals mobility. Therefore, it is needed this facts are considered to interpret the measurements in the original paper. Also, whenever effects of different materials are studied on the metals mobility, the metals status in the plant tissues presents valuable information to the scientists and readers for carefully interpreting the measurements, which it is ignored by the authors.
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Environ Pollut
January 2025
College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
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January 2025
School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre, Guangzhou 510006, PR China.
The interaction between dissolved organic matter (DOM) and ferrihydrite (Fh) is a crucial process to control the environmental behavior of heavy metals (HMs) in soil environments, with DOM playing a particularly strong role in HMs fate. Since chemical properties of DOM vary based on different soil parent materials, the underlying impact of DOM-Fh associations on HMs binding remains unclear. This study systematically investigated the interactions between DOM from three soil parent materials (fluvial alluvium: FDOM, sand-shale: SDOM and granite: GDOM) and Fh, and meanwhile understand their effects on the environmental behavior of Cd and Pb under various environmental conditions.
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January 2025
Center of Sustainable Environmental Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea. Electronic address:
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January 2025
Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran.
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