Mercury in vascular, terrestrial plants - Comparison between finland and Slovenia in the years 1979-1981

Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Environmentalica

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 91-96

  Lodenius, Martin ^a   Nuorteva, Pekka ^a   Nuorteva, Sirkka Liisa ^a  

^a Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Different environments; Indication; Mercury uptake; Pollution

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTANT SOURCE; VASCULAR PLANT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; IDRIJA; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33746103676     PISSN: 08626529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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