In defence of plants as biomonitors of soil quality

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-3

  Madejón, Paula ^a   Marañón, Teodoro ^b   Murillo, José M ^b   Robinson, Brett ^c  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Plant biomonitoring; Plant metal interactions; Risk based assessment; Soil quality

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LETTER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL QUALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLANTS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 33646424081     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2005.11.008     Document Type: Letter

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