Sharma, Shivali, Likhita, Jonnada, Sharma, Sunny, Sharma, Gaurav, Kumar, Amit, Kumar, Rupesh and Pandey, Vimal Chandra (2024) Plant diversity on post-industrial land: Resilience and restoration. In: Biodiversity and ecosystem services on post-industrial land. Wiley. ISBN 978-1-394-18738-6
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Abstract
Industries are starting to be acknowledged as a significant new global change factor that may have an impact on terrestrial ecosystems (de Souza Machado et al. 2018; Rillig 2012). Industrial pollution affects all aspects of our environment, including the food and the air. Due to its indistinctness, it might present a significant hazard and potentially remain unnoticed. Soil pollution is the condition when the soil contains excessive amounts of compounds, agrochemicals, and other substances that surpass a specific limit and disrupt the growth and survival of plants and animals. Soil contamination causes a variety of pressures that impede the growth of the plants. Additionally, industrial pollutants raise the soil’s salinity, making it insufficient for plant development. Consequently, the soil becomes deficient in minerals and becomes unusable. Although the global population is growing daily, agricultural yield is not rising at the same rate. Industrial pollution affects the biodiversity and abundance of organisms cohabiting in the soil, resulting in significant detrimental effects on soil functionality. A steady decrease in the activity of soil microbes leads to a decrease in the process of nitrogen cycling (Jacoby et al. 2017). This, in turn, has an impact on the structure and fertility of the soil, ultimately affecting crop yield. The generation of microplastics can adversely affect plant communities through many mechanisms. A significant amount of microplastics will be deposited in both terrestrial and marine ecosystems as a result of several factors, such as the wearing down of synthetic materials and big plastic objects during production or in their natural habitats, and the erosion of tires while driving. Microplastics can find their way into soil through soil additions, irrigation, diffuse urban runoff, floods, air fallout (Qi et al. 2018; Zhang and Liu 2018), and plastic mulching. (Rillig 2012; Mahon et al. 2017) (Hurley et al. 2018; Dris et al. 2015). As a result, microplastics can show up in soil as fibers, films, or granules with a range of shapes, compositions, and abundances, and at concentrations as high as 7% in the vicinity of industrial sites. (Fuller and Gautam 2016) For example, because plastic mulching is heavily employed to increase plant production, agricultural areas would be greatly impacted by microplastic films (Brodhagen et al. 2017), but microplastic pieces or microfibers would typically have a greater impact on waterways or roadsides. According to (Sommer et al. 2018), plant communities are significantly harmed by industrial waste.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Subjects: | Physical, Life and Health Sciences > Environmental Science, Policy and Law Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General) |
JGU School/Centre: | Jindal Global Business School |
Depositing User: | Subhajit Bhattacharjee |
Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2024 09:33 |
Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 09:33 |
Official URL: | https://www.wiley.com/en-es/Biodiversity+and+Ecosy... |
URI: | https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/8481 |
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