Active moss biomonitoring applied to an industrial site in Romania: Relative accumulation of 36 elements in moss-bags

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 108, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 229-240

  Culicov, Otilia A ^a,b   Mocanu, R ^c   Frontasyeva, M V ^a   Yurukova, L ^d   Steinnes, E ^e  

^a JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN MICROTECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

^c ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Moss bags; Neutron activation analysis; Pollution; Sphagnum; Trace elements; Urban atmosphere

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MONITORING; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SAMPLING; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ACTIVE MOSS BIOMONITORING; MOSS-BAGS; SPHAGNUM GIRGENSOHNII; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AIR POLLUTION;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT; MOSS; POLLUTION MONITORING; TRACE ELEMENT; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; EXPOSURE; INDUSTRIAL AREA; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL; ROMANIA; SAMPLING; SPHAGNUM;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

BRYOPHYTA; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM GIRGENSOHNII;

EID: 25844464077     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-1688-9     Document Type: Article

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