Use of lichens as pollution biomonitors in remote areas: Comparison of PAHs extracted from lichens and atmospheric particles sampled in and around the Somport tunnel (pyrenees)

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 6384-6391

  Blasco, María ^a   Domeño, Celia ^a   Nerín, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXTRACTION; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

CONCENTRATION RATIOS; POLLUTION BIOMONITORS; REMOTE AREAS; ROAD TRAFFIC;

POLLUTION DETECTION;

ACENAPHTHENE DERIVATIVE; ACENAPHTHYLENE; ANTHRACENE; BENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BENZO[B]FLUORANTHENE; BENZO[GHI]PERYLENE; BENZO[K]FLUORANTHENE; CHRYSENE; DIBENZ[A,H]ANTHRACENE; DIBENZOFURAN; FLUORANTHENE; FLUORENE; NAPHTHALENE; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXTRACTION; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; POLLUTION DETECTION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLE; BIOMONITORING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LICHEN; PAH; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLER; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EXHAUST GAS; FILTER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LICHENS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PARMELIA; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; SOLUBILITY; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SPAIN;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FRANCE; LICHENS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SPAIN; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES; SOMPORT;

PARMELIA SULCATA;

EID: 33750339149     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0601484     Document Type: Article

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