Aquatic Pollution and Coastal Zone Managememnt (2+1)

Unit 8 : Bioremediation and phytoremediation

8.1.2.Factors of bioremediation
The control and optimization of bioremediation processes is a complex system of many factors. These factors include: the existence of a microbial population capable of degrading the pollutants; the availability of contaminants to the microbial population; the environment factors (type of soil, temperature, pH, the presence of oxygen or other electron acceptors, and nutrients).