Heavy Metal Balances, Part I: General Aspects of Cadmium, Copper, Zinc, and Lead Balance Studies in Agro-Ecosystems

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 45-60

  Moolenaar, Simon W ^a   Lexmond, Theo M ^b  

^a IWACO   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Heavy metals; Mass balance; Materials flows; Soil contamination; Substance flow analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002069654     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jiec.1998.2.4.45     Document Type: Article

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