Understorey vegetation along a heavy-metal pollution gradient in SW Finland

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 339-350

  Salemaa, M ^a   Vanha Majamaa, I ^a   Derome, J ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Boreal forest vegetation; Heavy metals; Non metric multidimensional scaling; Point quadrat method; Sulphur

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL; SULFUR;

BIOACCUMULATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTION EFFECT; UNDERSTORY;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; FINLAND; FOREST; LICHENS; MOSS; NUTRIENT; POLLUTION; REVIEW; SOIL; SPECIES; VEGETATION;

(SOUTHWEST); FINLAND;

BRYOPHYTA; MIMOSA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0035130434     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(00)00150-0     Document Type: Article

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