Growth and metal concentration of seedlings of woody species in a heavy metal contaminated soil

• Autor(a) principal: Marques, Teresa Cristina Lara Lanza de Sá e Melo
• Data de Publicação: 2000
• Outros Autores: Moreira, Fatima Maria de Souza, Siqueira, José Oswaldo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.sct.embrapa.br/index.php/pab/article/view/5701
• topic: soil pollution; tropical trees; revegetation; soil rehabilitation; poluição do solo; árvores tropicais; revegetação; reabilitação do solo

The objective of the paper was to evaluate metal content and ability to grow in soil with excess of heavy metals of seedlings of 20 woody species. In the greenhouse, seedlings were transplanted to pots with 3.3 kg of soil-mixes with different proportions (0, 20, 40, 60% v/v) of a heavy metal contaminated soil. It was found that plant species behaved differently in terms of growth inhibition and metal content in the shoots and roots. Based upon the dry matter yield, only Myrsine umbellata, Cedrella fissilis, Tabebuia impetiginosa and Copaifera langsdorffii were not affected by increasing contamination, whereas Hymenaea courbaril, Mimosa caesalpiniaefolia, Acacia mangium and Platypodium gonoacantha were only slightly affected by it. All the other species were highly inhibited by the excess of metals in the soil, being such effects related, in most cases, to high uptake of Zn and Cd. Several species were able to retain large quantities of these metals in the roots, therefore avoiding their translocation to shoots.