Closing the loop: A spatial analysis to link observed environmental damage to predicted heavy metal emissions

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 970-976

  Colgan, Anja ^a   Hankard, Peter K ^b   Spurgeon, David J ^b   Svendsen, Claus ^b   Wadsworth, Richard A ^b   Weeks, Jason M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c WRC PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dispersal; Earthworms; Heavy metals; Spatial interpolation

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEAVY METALS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS;

INDUSTRIAL SITES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

HEAVY METAL; ZINC;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; EARTHWORM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GIS; HEAVY METAL; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; EARTHWORM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; INDUSTRY; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELTER; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

AIR POLLUTION; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; METALLURGY; METALS, HEAVY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEUTRAL RED; OLIGOCHAETA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 0037403469     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(2003)022<0970:CTLASA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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