Monitoring fluoride with honey bees in the upper Snake River Plain of Idaho

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 868-877

  Bromenshenk, Jerry J ^a   Cronn, Richard C ^a   Nugent, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS; FUNGI; GAS EMISSIONS; MONITORING; PHOSPHATE ORE TREATMENT; SOILS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; HONEY BEES; IDAHO; LICHENS; VEGETATION;

FLUORINE COMPOUNDS;

FLUORIDE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; HONEYBEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030200357     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq1996.00472425002500040031x     Document Type: Article

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