Patterns of soil copper contamination and temporal changes in vegetation in the vicinity of a copper rod rolling factory

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 363-369

  Lepp, Nicholas W ^a   Hartley, Jeanette ^b   Toti, Mihai ^a,c   Dickinson, Nicholas M ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c Res Inst Soil Sci and Agrochem   (Romania)

Author keywords

Agrostis; Copper; Festuca; Grass; Lolium; Metal tolerance; Poa; Soil pollution; Trifolium; Weeds

Indexed keywords

COPPER;

ARTICLE; CHIMNEY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FURNACE; GRASS; PLANT GROWTH; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECIES; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; VEGETATION;

COMMON BENT; COPPER; PERENNIAL RYEGRASS;

UK, ENGLAND, MERSEYSIDE, PRESCOT;

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS CAPILLARIS; LOLIUM PERENNE; POACEAE;

EID: 0030746434     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(96)00130-3     Document Type: Article

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