Earthworm Assisted Remediation of Effluents and Wastes

Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Applicability of Vermifiltration for Wastewater Treatment and Recycling  ( Bhavini, Kavita Kanaujia, Amber Trivedi, Subrata Hait)....Pages 3-17
 Vermifiltration for Rural Wastewater Treatment  (Meena Khwairakpam)....Pages 19-34
 Treatment of Wastewater by Vermifiltration Integrated with Plants  (Anu Bala Chowdhary, Jahangeer Quadar, Bhaskar Singh, Jaswinder Singh)....Pages 35-51
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 Recycling of Municipal Sludge by Vermicomposting  (Kui Huang, Hui Xia, Fusheng Li, Sartaj Ahmad Bhat)....Pages 55-67
 Influence of Distillery Sludge-Based Vermicompost on the Nutritional Status of Rapanus sativus L. (Radish)  (Susila Sugumar, Tamilselvi Duraisamy, Selvakumar Muniraj, Ramarajan Selvam, Vasanthy Muthunarayanan)....Pages 69-83
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 Vermitechnology: A Sustainable Approach in the Management of Solid and Liquid Waste  (Soubam Indrakumar Singh, Deachen Angmo, Rahil Dutta)....Pages 87-105
 Natural Biological Treatment of Effluent and Sludges to Combat the Burden of Waste  (Deachen Angmo, Rahil Dutta, Soubam Indra Kumar, Angelika Sharma)....Pages 107-122
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 Vermicomposts Are Biologically Different: Microbial and Functional Diversity of Green Vermicomposts  (María Gómez-Brandón, Manuel Aira, Jorge Domínguez)....Pages 125-140
 Vermicomposting Treatment of Fruit and Vegetable Waste and the Effect of the Addition of Excess Activated Sludge  (Wenjiao Li, Sartaj Ahmad Bhat, Yongfen Wei, Fusheng Li)....Pages 141-159
 Eco-management of Industrial Organic Wastes Through the Modified Innovative Vermicomposting Process: A Sustainable Approach in Tropical Countries  (Ram Kumar Ganguly, Susanta Kumar Chakraborty)....Pages 161-177
 Growth and Reproductive Biology of Earthworms in Organic Waste Breakdown Under the Indian Condition  (Priyasankar Chaudhuri, Susmita Debnath)....Pages 179-193
 Vermicomposting of Parthenium hysterophorus L.: A Solution to Weed Menace in Terrestrial Ecosystem  (Deepshikha Sharma, Anu Bala Chowdhary)....Pages 195-207
 Evaluating Method of Mica Waste Application in Earthworm Cast-Treated Soil for Enhancing Potassium Availability to the Plants with Reference to Tea  (Prabhat Pramanik, Chayanika Kalita, Pallabi Kalita, Anup Jyoti Goswami)....Pages 209-225
 PGPR and Earthworm-Assisted Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals  (Pooja Sharma, Palak Bakshi, Jaspreet Kour, Arun Dev Singh, Shalini Dhiman, Pardeep Kumar et al.)....Pages 227-245
 Waste Management Practices and Their Impact on Earthworms  (Harsimran Kaur, Puttaganti Vijaya, Suman Sharma)....Pages 247-267
 Toxicity and Histopathological Effect of Distillery Industrial Sludge on the Earthworm Eudrilus eugeniae  (Susila Sugumar, Selvakumar Muniraj, Tamilselvi Duraisamy, Ramarajan Selvam, Vasanthy Muthunarayanan)....Pages 269-279
 Earthworm-Assisted Amelioration of Thermal Ash  (Bhawana Sohal, Adarsh Pal Vig)....Pages 281-295
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 Some Perspectives on Vermicompost Utilization in Organic Agriculture  (Hupenyu A. Mupambwa, Balasuramani Ravindran, Ernest Dube, Noxolo S. Lukashe, Asteria A. N. Katakula, Pearson N. S. Mnkeni)....Pages 299-331
 Earthworm Communities and Soil Structural Properties  (Sharanpreet Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Adarsh Pal Vig, Falwinder Verma, Surindra Suthar)....Pages 333-350
 Effect of Methyl Parathion on the Growth and Reproduction of Eisenia fetida in Natural Soil  (Ankurita Nath, Subrata Hait)....Pages 351-363