Contents
Preface.................................................................................................................... vii

Acknowledgments .................................................................................................xi

Editors................................................................................................................... xiii

Contributors...........................................................................................................xv

1. Introduction .....................................................................................................1

Larry E. Erickson and Valentina Pidlisnyuk
2. Phytotechnologies for Site Remediation ................................................... 5

Valentina Pidlisnyuk, Ganga M. Hettiarachchi, Zeljka Zgorelec,
Melissa Prelac, Nikola Bilandžija, Lawrence C. Davis, and

Larry E. Erickson

3. Remediation of Sites Contaminated by Organic Compounds............ 37

Lawrence C. Davis, Barbara Zeeb, Larry E. Erickson, Aigerim Mamirova,
and Valentina Pidlisnyuk
4. Phytomining Applied for Postmining Sites ........................................... 61

Hermann Heilmeier
5. Establishing Miscanthus, Production of Biomass, and
Application to Contaminated Sites...........................................................77

Lawrence C. Davis, Valentina Pidlisnyuk, Aigerim Mamirova,
Pavlo Shapoval, and Tatyana Stefanovska

6. Balancing Soil Health and Biomass Production .................................. 115

Larry E. Erickson and Kraig Roozeboom
7. Plant–Microbe Associations in Phytoremediation.............................. 123

Asil Nurzhanova, Aigerim Mamirova, Josef Trögl, Diana Nebeská, and
Valentina Pidlisnyuk
8. Plant Feeding Insects and Nematodes Associated with
Miscanthus................................................................................................... 141

Tatyana Stefanovska, Valentina Pidlisnyuk, and Andrzej Skwiercz
9. Economics of Phytoremediation with Biomass Production .............. 159

Larry E. Erickson, Jan Černý, and Valentina Pidlisnyuk
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