Chapter 14 Plant biodiversity and environmental stress

Trace Metals and other Contaminants in the Environment

Volumn 6, Issue C, 2003, Pages 501-525

  Mulder, Ch ^a   Breure, A M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

autecology; biodiversity; character state; climate change; ecotoxicology; effects; Ellenberg; flora; heavy metal; IEPS; insecticide; PAF; palynology; photosynthesis; synecology; vascular plants; vegetation

Indexed keywords

TRACHEOPHYTA; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 33744796421     PISSN: 18751121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5215(03)80144-3     Document Type: Article

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