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Analysis of vegetation state in the copper tailing yard in Tongling

WANG Youbao, ZHANG Li, LIU Dengyi, XIE Jianchun, CHU Ling, LI Ying   

  1. College of Life Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China
  • Received:2002-04-28 Revised:2002-11-02 Online:2004-02-10

Abstract: From the field investigation and laboratory analysis, this paper studied the vegetation state in the copper tailing yard of Tongling. The results showed that there were 89 species of naturaly colonized plants in the copper tailing yard, which belonged to 30 families and 73 genera. The main families were Gramineae (19 species), Compositae (16 species),and Legumineceae(9 species).Hippochaete ramosissimwn, which belong to Equisetaceae, had an important position too. The vegetation on copper tailing yard was distributed on spot piece and scattered with low species diversity.mainly composed of biernial and annual herbs. Cynodon dactylon, Imperata cylindraca, Lespedeza chinensis and Trifolium pratense etc. were dominant species that can be used for copper tailing treatment.

Key words: Environmental conditions, Phytochelatins, Cd biotoxicity, Triticum aestivum

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