Concentrations of mercury, copper, cadmium and lead in fruiting bodies of edible mushrooms in the vicinity of a mercury smelter and a copper smelter

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 177, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 251-258

  Kalac P ^a   Niznanska M ^b   Bevilaqua, D ^c   Staskova I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b Regional Museum   (Slovakia)

^c District Office of Environment   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

cadmium; copper; copper smelter vicinity; edible mushrooms; heavy metals; lead; mercury; mercury smelter vicinity

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCURY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRUIT; INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION; LEPIOTA PROCERA; LEPISTA NUDA; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELTER;

LEPIOTA SPP.; LEPISTA SPP.;

CADMIUM; COPPER; FUNGI; LEAD; MERCURY; MUSHROOM;

CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA;

EID: 0029669230     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0048-9697(95)04850-2     Document Type: Article

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