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Aug 2026
Bioavailable metals, microbial community dysfunction, and plant growth constraints in a tropical mining waste dump: implications for ecological risk assessment and remediation
Mining waste dumps in tropical regions suffer severe ecological degradation with plant growth inhibition, yet the synergistic limiting factors remain unclear. This study systematically assessed a tropical mining waste dump (Democratic Republic of the Congo), analyzing soil physicochemical properties, total/b...
Li-Sha Huang, Zhi-Bo Wu, Biwei Hu et al.
· Frontiers in Soil Science · 0 citations