Acknowledgments The authors express their sincere thanks to the head of the Department of
Environmental Microbiology for providing infrastructure facilities and the University Grant Commission (UGC), New Delhi, for the financial support provided.
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and risks of metals. Springer, New York
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in environmental cleanup. Geoderma 122:121–142
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amendments (mussel shell, cow bone, and biochar) on Pb availability and phytotoxicity in
military shooting range soil. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf 79:225–231
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(2014) Biochar as a sorbent for contaminant management in soil and water: a review.
Chemosphere 99:19–33
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amendments on mobility, bioavailability and toxicity of inorganic and organic contaminants in a
multi-element polluted soil. Environ Pollut 158:2282–2287
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of biochars’ potential role in the remediation, revegetation and restoration of contaminated soils.
Environ Pollut 159:474–480
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Marmiroli N (2013) Biochar addition to an arsenic contaminated soil increases arsenic concentrations in the pore water but reduces uptake to tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum L.). Sci
Total Environ 455:598–603
Belyaeva ON, Haynes RJ (2012) Comparison of the effects of conventional organic amendments
and biochar on the chemical, physical and microbial properties of coal fly ash as a plant growth
medium. Environ Earth Sci 66:1987–1997
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heavy metal-polluted soils. In: Gore RW (ed) Environmental research at the leading edge. Nova
Publishers, New York, pp 2–58
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their bioremediation approaches, 1st edn. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, pp
1–22. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315173351-2
Bharagava RN, Saxena G, Mulla SI, Patel DK (2017b) Characterization and identification of
recalcitrant organic pollutants (ROPs) in tannery wastewater and its phytotoxicity evaluation
for environmental safety. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 75:259. https://doi.org/10.1007/
s00244-017-0490-x
Bharagava RN, Saxena G, Chowdhary P (2017c) Constructed wetlands: An emerging
phytotechnology for degradation and detoxification of industrial wastewaters. In: Bharagava
RN (ed) Environmental pollutants and their bioremediation approaches, 1st edn. CRC Press,
Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, pp 397–426. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315173351-15
Blackwell P, Krull E, Butler G, Herbert A, Solaiman Z (2010) Effect of banded biochar on dryland
wheat production and fertiliser use in south-western Australia: an agronomic and economic
perspective. Aust J Soil Res 48:531–545
488
C. Singh et al.