Lichen biomonitoring near Karabash Smelter Town, Ural Mountains, Russia, one of the most polluted areas in the world

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1536, 2004, Pages 221-226

  Purvis, O William ^a   Chimonides, P Jim ^a   Jones, Gary C ^a   Mikhailova, Irina N ^b   Spiro, Baruch ^a   Weiss, Dominik J ^c   Williamson, Ben J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ANIMAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical signatures; Biomonitoring; Lichen; Particles; Pollution

Indexed keywords

ELEMENT; METAL;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMONITORING; LICHEN; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); LICHENS; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CHELYABINSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; EURASIA; KARABASH; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 1042267998     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2616     Document Type: Article

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