Evaluation of the historical records of lead pollution in the annual growth rings and bark pockets of a 250-year-old Quercus crispula in Nikko, Japan

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 295, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 91-100

  Bellis, David J ^a   Satake, Kenichi ^a   Noda, Masato ^b   Nishimura, Naoki ^c   McLeod, Cameron W ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Annual rings; Bark pockets; Historical monitoring; Pb isotope ratio; Pb pollution

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BARK POCKETS;

POLLUTION;

LEAD;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BARK; GROWTH RESPONSE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANNUAL RING; ARTICLE; BARK; HISTORY; JAPAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OAK; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOOT; TRUNK;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; JAPAN; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; QUERCUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

JAPAN;

BRYOPHYTA; LITHOCARPUS GLABER; QUERCUS;

EID: 0037025806     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00054-2     Document Type: Article

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