Effects of an industrial effluent on plant colonization and on the germination and post-germinative growth of seeds of terrestrial and aquatic plant species

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 179-189

  Crowe, A U ^a   Plant, A L ^a   Kermode, A R ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Germination; Oil sands effluent; Osmotic potential; Seedling growth; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

CRUDE PETROLEUM; EFFLUENTS; GYPSUM; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED; WATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

VEGETATION SURVEYS;

WATER POLLUTION;

CALCIUM SULFATE; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; MACROGOL; PETROLEUM;

AQUATIC PLANT; COLONIZATION; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; EFFLUENT; GERMINATION; OIL SAND; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CEREAL; GERMINATION; GRASS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PEA; PINE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SEED; POLLUTANT; SAND; TOMATO; VEGETATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WETLAND; WHEAT;

ALBERTA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GERMINATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PETROLEUM; PLANTS; SOIL;

CANADA;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PHALARIS AQUATICA; PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA; PHRAGMITES; PINUS TAEDA; PISUM SATIVUM; SECALE CEREALE; TRIFOLIUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0036145030     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(01)00131-2     Document Type: Article

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