Heavy metals in soil and vegetation at Shallee mine, Silvermines, Co. Tipperary

Biology and Environment

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-42

  Steinbörn, Maria ^a   Breen, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOINDICATOR; COPPER; ECOTOXICITY; IRELAND; LEAD; POLLUTION MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTION; ZINC;

BRYOPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; HYLOCOMIUM SPLENDENS; PRIMULA VULGARIS; PRIMULACEAE; RHYTIDIADELPHUS LOREUS; SUCCISA PRATENSIS; TEUCRIUM; TEUCRIUM SCORODONIA;

EID: 0032730816     PISSN: 07917945     EISSN: 2009003X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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