Development and calibration of epiphytic lichens as saltfall biomonitors - Dry-deposition modelling

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 69-78

  Figueira, Rui ^a   Pacheco, Adriano M G ^a,b   Sousa, António J ^a   Catarino, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Atmospheric deposition; Biomonitoring; Calibration; Lichen transplants; Precipitation; Tropospheric salinity

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; DEPOSITION; PLANTS (BOTANY); RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS;

AIR POLLUTION;

RAIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BIOMONITORING; CALIBRATION; DRY DEPOSITION; LICHEN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CALIBRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRY DEPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; LICHENS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; SEASHORE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

PORTUGAL;

RAMALINA; RAMALINA CALICARIS; USNEA;

CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; LICHENS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 0035989658     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(02)00129-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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