Main description:

Focused on an important topic of a growing global activity: soil improvement through biomass production.
Includes case-studies and success stories from different countries on application of miscanthus phytotechnology to sites differently contaminated by trace elements, pesticides and petroleum products.
Discusses peculiarities of miscanthus production on post-military and post-mining contaminated land, impact of plant growth regulators, soil amendments, fertilizers and biochar to the process.
Introduces soil fauna as indicators of soil health during miscanthus phytotechnology application.
Presents miscanthus value chain associated with processing of miscanthus biomass to different bioproducts.

Contents:

1. Introduction 2. Phytotechnologies for Site Remediation 3. Remediation of Sites Contaminated by Organic Compounds 4. Phytomining Applied for Postmining Sites 5. Establishing Miscanthus, Production of Biomass, and Application to Contaminated Sites 6. Balancing Soil Health and Biomass Production 7. Plant-Microbe Associations in Phytoremediation 8. Plant Feeding Insects and Nematodes Associated with Miscanthus 9. Economics of Phytoremediation with Biomass Production 10. Miscanthus Biomass for Alternative Energy Production 11. Miscanthus as Raw Materials for Bio-based Products 12. Conclusions and Recommendations