Bioaccumulation of metals by lichens: Uptake of aqueous uranium by Peltigera membranacea as a function of time and pH

American Mineralogist

Volumn 83, Issue 11-12 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1494-1502

  Haas, Johnson R ^a,b,c   Bailey, Elizabeth H ^a,b,c   William Purvis, O ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; PH; SORPTION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; URANIUM;

ENERGY DISPERSIVE; EQUILIBRIUM SORPTION; FUNCTION OF TIME; INCUBATION TIME; PHOSPHATE LIGANDS; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SORPTION EXPERIMENTS; SURFACE FUNCTIONAL GROUPS;

FUNGI;

BIOACCUMULATION; LICHEN; METAL; PH; URANIUM;

EID: 0032415222     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-1998-11-1237     Document Type: Article

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