Toxicity of copper to Quercus robur (English Oak) seedlings from a copper-rich soil

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 99-107

  Wisniewski, Louise ^a   Dickinson, Nicholas M ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Heavy metal; Mine spoil; Tolerance; Trees

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; COPPER; ECOTOXICOLOGY; MINE WASTE; SEEDLING; SOIL POLLUTION; TREE;

ENGLAND (CHESHIRE); UNITED KINGDOM;

QUERCUS; QUERCUS ROBUR;

EID: 0038469708     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-8472(03)00005-4     Document Type: Article

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