The use of mosses and pine needles to detect persistent organic pollutants at local and regional scales

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 283-292

  Holoubek, I ^a   Korinek P ^b   Seda Z ^a   Schneiderova E ^c   Holoubkova I ^c,d   Pacl, A ^d   Triska J ^e   Cudlin P ^e   Caslavsky J ^f  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Hygienic Survey   (Czech Republic)

^c TOCOEN Ltd   (Czech Republic)

^d 394 22   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^f INSTITUTE OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ACENAPHTHENE DERIVATIVE; ANTHRACENE; BENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BENZO[GHI]PERYLENE; BENZO[K]FLUORANTHENE; CHLORPHENOTANE; CHRYSENE; FLUORANTHENE; FLUORENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; LINDANE; NAPHTHALENE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; PENTACHLOROPHENOL; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE;

BIOMONITORING; HYDROCARBON; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREECE; ITALY; MOSS; NETHERLANDS; PINE; POLLUTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLING; VEGETATION;

HYPNUM CUPRESSIFORME; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 0343130534     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(99)00260-2     Document Type: Article

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