Description: Bio-organic Amendments for Heavy Metal Remediation: Water, Soil and Plant Approaches and Technologies focuses on these core continuum media to explore remediation options using microbial, organic, and combined approaches. This volume in the Plant Biology, Sustainability and Climate Change series offers a comprehensive view of techniques and approaches for addressing contamination by heavy metals. It provides a comprehensive view of the challenge, with a focus on the bioremediation of heavy metals contamination using ecotechnological approaches for protecting the soil, water, and plant continuum.
As anthropogenic activities increasingly negatively impact natural resources, there has been significant disturbance of the water, soil, and plant continuum due to the accumulation of heavy metals. The bioaccumulation of heavy metals in the food chain could pose life-threatening effects on plants as well as humans, and there is need to find effective and sustainable remediation options. The application of bio-organic amendments could serve as a sustainable solution to this problem.Brief description: Allah Ditta is an Assistant Professor at Department of Environmental Sciences, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University Sheringal, Dir upper, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He earned his BSc (Hons) MSc (Hons) from University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan and received his Ph.D. from Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan. He has carried out research projects in the areas of Eco-restoration by using integrated organic, inorganic and microbial strategies. He has also served as Assistant Professor at Department of Environmental Sciences, PMAS, Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan. His major research interests encompass broad, interdisciplinary field of plant production, with a focus on eco-restoration under abiotic stresses. The breadth of his research spans from degraded land ecological amelioration, using integrated and sustainable approaches. Dr. Ditta has published more than 85 research and review articles (Impact factor 210.43) in internationally well-recognized journals along with thirteen book chapters.