Accumulation of some heavy metals in lichens in Giresun city, Turkey

Ekologia Bratislava

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 306-313

  Kinalioǧlu, Kadir ^a   Horuz, Ayhan ^b   Kutbay, Hamdi Güray ^b   Bilgin, Ali ^b   Yalçin, Erkan ^b  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Crustose lichens; Foliose lichen; Heavy metal pollution; Traffic density

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BIOMONITORING; CONTAMINATED LAND; COPPER; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; IRON; LEAD; LICHEN; MANGANESE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC EMISSION; ZINC;

EURASIA; GIRESUN; TURKEY;

CLADONIA;

EID: 33750022406     PISSN: 1335342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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