Monitoring of air pollutants in Florence (Italy), with herbaceous and woody bioindicators

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 496, Issue , 1999, Pages 429-435

  Bussotti, F ^a   Grossoni, P ^a   Soda, C ^a   Ferretti, M ^b   Lorenzini, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Universita di Pisa ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Lolium multiflorum; Nicotiana tabacum; Ozone; Pinus halepensis

Indexed keywords

LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PINUS HALEPENSIS;

EID: 33644844118     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.1999.496.53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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