The researchers hope their findings will one day be applied to ecosystem-wide remediation efforts.
These include determining status and trends of biological, physical, or chemical/radiological conditions, conducting environmental impact assessments, performing remedial actions should remediation fail, managing ecosystems and wildlife, and assessing the efficacy of remediation, restoration, and long-term stewardship.
Arsenic is a priority pollutant in aquatic ecosystem and therefore the remediation of arsenic-bearing wastewater is an important environmental issue.
Within their territory derelict or active mining explorations represent risks to surrounding ecosystems, but engineered-based remediation processes are usually too expensive to be an option for the reclamation of these areas.
Modeling is useful in predicting effects of human actions, the success of environmental remediation, or specific ecosystem variables of economic interest such as fish production.
The ecotoxicological models are applied either for registration of chemicals to solve site specific pollution problems or to follow the recovery of an ecosystem after pollution abatement or remediation has taken place.
In addition to the positive aspects of actinorhizal plants on the remediation of degraded ecosystem, some actinorhizal plants such as Hippophae rhamnoides (sea buckthorn), Hippophae L., and Rubus ellipticus (Yellow Himalayan raspberry) are used as food ingredients or for medicinal purposes [ 7– 9].
Ecotoxicological models are applied for registration of chemicals, to solve site-specific pollution problems, or to follow ecosystem recovery after pollution abatement or remediation has taken place.
The stark fact that society must face is that on a global scale the world is contaminated and will never return to its pristine past; the successes of "spot" cleanups are newsworthy, but the unaddressed issue of environmental remediation further disturbing an ecosystem adapting to toxicity has not been addressed.
Case studies, demonstrations and applications pertaining to restoration, rehabilitation, conservation, sustainability, reconstruction, remediation and reclamation of ecosystems using ecological engineering techniques are numerous.
