Biomonitoring of 210Po and 210Pb using lichens and mosses around a uraniferous coal-fired power plant in western Turkey

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 2237-2245

  Ugur A ^a   Ozden B ^a   Sac M M ^a   Yener, G ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Biomonitors; Lichens; Mosses; Natural radionuclides

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; COAL; PLANTS (BOTANY); POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVITY;

ATMOSPHERIC FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COAL; IRON; LEAD 210; POLONIUM; RADIUM 226; URANIUM;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMONITORING; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; LICHEN; MOSS; RADIOACTIVITY;

ARTICLE; ASH; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVATED LAND; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; LICHENS; MOSS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

GOKOVA; TURKEY;

BRYOPHYTA; CLADONIA; CLADONIA CONVOLUTA; CLADONIA PYXIDATA; CONVOLUTA; FRAXINUS; GRIMMIA; GRIMMIA PULVINATA; HYPNUM; HYPNUM CUPRESSIFORME; RHIZOPLACA; RHIZOPLACA MELANOPHTHALMA;

EID: 0037403311     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(03)00147-X     Document Type: Article

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