Trial site, Florida, United States
Florida, former CCA wood-treatment site
A site where wood was treated with chromated copper arsenate (CCA). The abstract does not name it; the authors are at the University of Florida.
Contaminants
Plants and fungi at this site
PhytoremediationField scale, 2000–2002
Pteris vittata
Kertulis-Tartar, Ma, Tu and Chirenje planted the hyperaccumulating fern and measured soil arsenic in 2000, 2001 and 2002, harvesting in 2001 and 2002 either senescing fronds only or all fronds.
Outcome An inconclusive result for the soil: differences between the three years were not statistically significant, because of the extreme variability of soil arsenic, although the surface mean fell from 190 to 140 mg/kg. The ferns removed about 19.3 g of arsenic in all. The authors call for better agronomic practice.
From the literature
Species that acted on one of this site's contaminants in at least one study. The list is automatic and takes no account of this site's soil, concentrations or climate.
Plants
- Pteris vittataChinese brake fernEvidence: field
- Populus albaWhite poplarEvidence: field
- Arundo donaxGiant reedEvidence: greenhouse
- Lemna minorCommon duckweedEvidence: laboratory
- Azolla carolinianaCarolina mosquito fernEvidence: laboratory
Fungi
- Funneliformis mosseaeEvidence: greenhouse
- Rhizophagus irregularisEvidence: greenhouse
- Fomitopsis pinicolaRed-belted conkEvidence: laboratory
- Aspergillus nigerBlack mouldEvidence: laboratory
- Mucor circinelloidesEvidence: laboratory
- Suillus luteusSlippery jackEvidence: laboratory
Sources
Draft compiled from public sources, not yet reviewed.