Are metal ions accumulated by saxicolous lichens growing in a rural environment?

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 73-79

  Armstrong, R A ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lichen; Metal ion; Parmelia glabratula ssp. fuliginosa; Slate substratum; Xanthoparmelia conspersa

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030882518     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-8472(96)01058-1     Document Type: Article

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