Higher plants as bioindicators of sulphur dioxide emissions in urban environments

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 111, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 75-88

  Fidalgo Hijano, Concepción ^a   Pettit Domínguez, Maria Dolores ^a   García Giménez, Rosario ^a   Hungría Sánchez, Pilar ^a   Sancho García, Inés ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pollution; Bioindicators; Cedrus deodara; Higher plants; Nerium oleander; Pinus pinea; Pyracantha coccinea; Quercus ilex; Sulphur dioxide

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; GAS EMISSIONS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CEDRUS DEODARA; NERIUM OLEANDER; PINUS PINEA; PYRACANTHA COCCINEA; QUERCUS ILEX;

AIR POLLUTION;

CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL B; PEROXIDASE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOINDICATOR; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; PLANT; SULFUR DIOXIDE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BALLOTA; BIOACCUMULATION; CALCULATION; CEDRUS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIGHER PLANT; INDICATOR ORGANISM; NERIUM; NONHUMAN; PINE; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION DENSITY; PYRACANTHA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAIN; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPRING; SUMMER; TISSUE INJURY; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETABLE; VEGETATION; WINTER; WOOD;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANGIOSPERMS; CEDRUS; CHLOROPHYLL; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NECROSIS; PEROXIDASE; PINUS; PLANT LEAVES; SPAIN; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MADRID [SPAIN]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

BALLOTA; CEDRUS; CEDRUS DEODARA; EMBRYOPHYTA; ILEX; NERIUM; NERIUM OLEANDER; PINUS PINEA; PYRACANTHA; PYRACANTHA COCCINEA; QUERCUS ILEX; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 29444460048     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-8140-6     Document Type: Article

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