Vitality behind desolation: Characteristics and succession process of plant communities in the Chongqing special steel plant brownfield

Phytoremediation is a sustainable way to clean contaminated urban soil, but selecting the right plants and designing communities is crucial. This study focuses on the vegetation in a disused steel plant in Chongqing, China, abandoned for nearly two decades. The goal is to reveal the plant community...

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Main Authors: Meng He, Bo Li, Xingyue Zeng, Chunlan Du, Jiajia Ding, Jie Lei, Wei Du, Chenglin Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-09-01
Series:Ecological Indicators
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X24009750