Metals in northern forest ecosystems: Role of vegetation in sequestration and cycling, and implications for ecological risk assessment

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 749-766

  Johnson, D ^a   MacDonald, D ^b   Hendershot, W ^b   Hale, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Cycling; Ecological risk assessment; Forest; Metals; Soils

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038379230     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713610007     Document Type: Review

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