Synthesizing bioaccumulation data from the German metals in mosses surveys and relating them to ecoregions

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 374, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 311-327

  Schroeder, Winfried ^a   Pesch, Roland ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VECHTA   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Classification and Regression Trees (CART); Ecoregions; Geostatistics; GIS; Multi metal accumulation indices

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOSYSTEMS; HEAVY METALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS;

BIOMONITORING; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREES (CART); ECOREGIONS; MULTIMETAL ACCUMULATION INDICES;

METAL ANALYSIS;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LEAD; MERCURY; NICKEL; TITANIUM; VANADIUM; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; ECOREGION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GEOSTATISTICS; GIS; HEAVY METAL; INDEX METHOD; MOSS; POLLUTION EFFECT; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CLIMATE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GERMANY; MOSS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

BRYOPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GERMANY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; METALS, HEAVY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 33847181183     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.09.015     Document Type: Article

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