Moss: A powerful tool for dioxin monitoring

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 30, 2006, Pages 5776-5786

  Carballeira, Alejo ^a   Angel Fernandez J ^a   Aboal, Jesús R ^a   Real, Carlos ^a   Couto, Javier A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Dioxin; Homologue profiles; Principal component analysis; Pseudoscleropodium purum

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; ISOMERS; MONITORING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

BIOMONITORING; DIOXINS; HOMOLOGUE PROFILES; PSEUDOSCLEROPODIUM PURUM;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

DIOXIN; FURAN;

BIOMONITORING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FURAN; MOSS; PCDD; POLLUTION MONITORING;

ABSORPTION; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DUMPING; INCINERATION; INDUSTRY; ISOMER; LOWER PLANT; MOSS; NONHUMAN; PLANT TISSUE; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOSCLEROPODIUM PURUM; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BRYOPHYTA; PSEUDOSCLEROPODIUM PURUM;

EID: 33748138571     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.05.016     Document Type: Article

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