The accumulation of heavy metals in naturally occurring plants of herbs, shrubs and trees grown on South Bolanda coal mine overburdens in subtropical region of India were illustrated.. The inter-elemental relationships of different parts of five plant species including herbs, shrubs and trees with the coal mine wastes were studied. From the tree species maximum positive correlation was observed...

In this paper, the morphological properties of fiber length (weighted in length) and of fiber width of unbleached Kraft pulp of Acacia melanoxylon were determined using TECHPAP Morfi® equipment (Techpap SAS, Grenoble, France), and were used in the calibration development of Near Infrared (NIR) partial least squares regression (PLS-R) models based on the spectral data obtained for the wood. It i...

Aim of the study: The ability of NIR spectroscopy for predicting the ISO brightness was studied on unbleached Kraft pulps of Acacia melanoxylon R. Br. Area of study: Sites covering littoral north, mid interior north and centre interior of Portugal. Materials and methods: The samples were Kraft pulped in standard identical conditions targeted to a kappa number of 15. A Near Infrared (NIR) partia...

Nitrogen (N)-fixing Acacia species are often aggressive invaders outside their native range. When invading riparian temperate forests, they can decrease tree diversity, alter the quality of litter inputs to streams and increase water N concentration. Although effects diversity nutrient enrichment on decomposition associated microbial decomposers have been widely studied, individual combined rem...

The use of biomass as an energy source presents itself a viable alternative, especially at time when the mitigation climate change requires that all possibilities replacing fossil fuels be used and implemented. residual also appears way to include in renewable production system products came out it, while allowing resolution environmental problems, such large volumes available, which are not us...