Chemical element concentrations in four lichens on a transect entering Voyageurs National Park

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 173-185

  Bennett, James P ^a   Wetmore, Clifford M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Heavy metals; Hypogymnia physodes; Lichen; National park

Indexed keywords

ELEMENT CONCENTRATION; HEAVY METAL; LICHEN; POLLUTION GRADIENT;

USA, MINNESOTA, INTERNATIONAL FALLS; USA, MINNESOTA, VOYAGEURS NATIONAL PARK;

CLADINA RANGIFERINA; CLADONIA; EVERNIA MESOMORPHA; HYPOGYMNIA PHYSODES; MESOMORPHA; PARMELIA SULCATA;

EID: 0030826973     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-8472(96)01039-8     Document Type: Article

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