Bioaccumulation of heavy metals by aquatic macrophytes around Wroclaw, Poland

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 242-247

  Samecka Cymerman, A ^a   Kempers, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; GROUND WATER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCURY; NICKEL; ZINC;

AIR POLLUTION; AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; EFFLUENT; POLAND; SEWAGE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

AQUATIC MACROPHYTE; HEAVY METAL; LIVERWORT; SEWAGE;

POLAND, WROCLAW;

EID: 0030299126     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/eesa.1996.0106     Document Type: Article

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