Caesium-137 concentrations and ecological half-lives in three epiphytic lichen species from Southern Greece (Megalopolis)

Bryologist

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 422-427

  Riga Karandinos, A Nelly ^a   Karandinos, Michael G ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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Indexed keywords

ANAPTYCHIA CILIARIS; LOBARIA PULMONARIA; PULMONARIA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS FRAINETTO; QUERCUS PUBESCENS; RAMALINA FARINACEA;

EID: 0031715444     PISSN: 00072745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745(1998)101[422:ccaehi]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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