Using environmental and growth characteristics of plants to detect long-term changes in response to atmospheric pollution: Some examples from British beechwoods

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 310, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 203-210

  Ling, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Beech; Ellenberg values; Ground flora; Plant growth strategies; Temporal changes

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MOISTURE; PH EFFECTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS; WOOD;

MOIST-SOILS;

AIR POLLUTION;

NITROGEN;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOINDICATOR; GROWTH RESPONSE; NITROGEN; PLANT COMMUNITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WOODLAND;

ACIDITY; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION INDICATOR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; COMMUNITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FLORA; FOREST SOIL; NONHUMAN; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; WOOD;

COTSWOLDS; ENGLAND (GLOUCESTERSHIRE); UNITED KINGDOM;

FAGUS;

EID: 0037601693     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00640-X     Document Type: Article

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