Elemental cycles: A status report on human or natural dominance

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Volumn 29, Issue , 2004, Pages 69-107

  Klee, R J ^a   Graedel, T E ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical cycles; Industrial ecology; Mobilization; Periodic table; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; MOBILIZATION; PERIODIC TABLE;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SEDIMENTS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 10444257378     PISSN: 15435938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.energy.29.042203.104034     Document Type: Review

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