文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Cryptic footprints of rare earth elements on natural resources and living organisms

作者：Adeel, Muhammad[1];Lee, Jie Yinn[2];Zain, Muhammad[3];Rizwan, Muhammad[4];Nawab, Aamir[5];Ahmad, M. A.[6];Shafiq, Muhammad[7];Yi, Hao[1];Jilani, Ghulam[8];Javed, Rabia[9];Horton, R.[10];Rui, Yukui[1];Tsang, Daniel C. W.[11];Xing, Baoshan[12]

机构：[1]China Agr Univ, Coll Resources & Environm Sci, Beijing Key Lab Farmland Soil Pollut Prevent & Re, Beijing 100094, Peoples R China;[2]Univ Malaysia Sabah, ITBC, Kota Kinabalu 88400, Sabah, Malaysia;[3]Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Farmland Irrigat Res Inst, Minist Agr & Rural Affairs, Key Lab Crop Water Use & Regulat, Xinxiang 453003, Henan, Peoples R China;[4]Huazhong Agr Univ, Coll Resources & Environm, Microelement Res Ctr, Wuhan 430070, Peoples R China;[5]Guangdong Ocean Univ, Coll Agr Sci, Dept Anim Sci, Zhanjiang 524088, Peoples R China;[6]Shenyang Univ, Minist Educ, Key Lab Ecorestorat Reg Contaminated Environm, Shenyang 11044, Liaoning, Peoples R China;[7]Univ Colima, Fac Biol & Agr Sci, Colima, Mexico;[8]PMAS Arid Agr Univ Rawalpindi, Inst Soil Sci & SWC, Rawalpindi, Pakistan;[9]Natl Univ Med Sci, Dept Multidisciplinary Studies, Rawalpindi 46000, Pakistan;[10]Iowa State Univ, Dept Agron, Ames, IA 50011 USA;[11]Hong Kong Polytech Univ, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China;[12]Univ Massachusetts, Stockbridge Sch Agr, Amherst, MA 01003 USA

年份：2019

卷号：127

起止页码：785

外文期刊名：ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

收录：SCI-EXPANDED(收录号：WOS:000467383500076)、、EI(收录号：20191806846950)、Scopus(收录号：2-s2.0-85064739718)、WOS

基金：The project was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (SQ2017YFNC060064 and 2017YFD0801300), NSFC-Guangdong Joint Fund (U1401234), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41371471 and No. 41130526). I am grateful to Dr. Dennis Francis from Cardiff University for help in formatting the paper in a way that is acceptable to the scientific community.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Toxic metals; Human health; Bioavailability; Aquatic animals; Threshold level; Potential risks; Antioxidant enzymes

外文摘要：Background: Rare earth elements (REEs) are gaining attention due to rapid rise of modern industries and technological developments in their usage and residual fingerprinting. Cryptic entry of REEs in the natural resources and environment is significant; therefore, life on earth is prone to their nasty effects. Scientific sectors have expressed concerns over the entry of REEs into food chains, which ultimately influences their intake and metabolism in the living organisms. Objectives: Extensive scientific collections and intensive look in to the latest explorations agglomerated in this document aim to depict the distribution of REEs in soil, sediments, surface waters and groundwater possibly around the globe. Furthermore, it draws attention towards potential risks of intensive industrialization and modern agriculture to the exposure of REEs, and their effects on living organisms. It also draws links of REEs usage and their footprints in natural resources with the major food chains involving plants, animals and humans. Methods: Scientific literature preferably spanning over the last five years was obtained online from the MEDLINE and other sources publishing the latest studies on REEs distribution, properties, usage, cycling and intrusion in the environment and food-chains. Distribution of REEs in agricultural soils, sediments, surface and ground water was drawn on the global map, together with transport pathways of REEs and their cycling in the natural resources. Results: Fourteen REEs (Ce, Dy, Er, Eu, Gd, Ho, La, Lu, Nd, Pr, Sm, Tb, Th and Yb) were plighted in this study. Wide range of their concentrations has been detected in agricultural soils (< 15.9-249.1 mu g g(-1)) and in groundwater (< 3.1-146.2 mu g L-1) at various sites worldwide. They have strong tendency to accumulate in the human body, and thus associated with kidney stones. The REEs could also perturb the animal physiology, especially affecting the reproductive development in both terrestrial and aquatic animals. In plants, REEs might affect the germination, root and shoot development and flowering at concentration ranging from 0.4 to 150 mg kg(-1). Conclusions: This review article precisely narrates the current status, sources, and potential effects of REEs on plants, animals, humans health. There are also a few examples where REEs have been used to benefit human health. However, still there is scarce information about threshold levels of REEs in the soil, aquatic, and terrestrial resources as well as living entities. Therefore, an aggressive effort is required for global action to generate more data on REEs. This implies we prescribe an urgent need for inter-disciplinary studies about REEs in order to identify their toxic effects on both ecosystems and organisms.