Reconstructing temporal trends in heavy metal deposition: Assessing the value of herbarium moss samples

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 120-130

  Shotbolt, L ^a   Buker P ^b   Ashmore, M R ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric deposition; Heavy metals; Herbarium; Mosses; UK

Indexed keywords

COPPER; DEPOSITION; HEAVY METALS; LEAD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOILS;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; HERBARIUM; MOSSES; UK;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; NICKEL; ZINC;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HEAVY METAL; HERBARIUM; MOSS; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; MOSS; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ARSENIC; BRYOPHYTA; CADMIUM; COPPER; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GREAT BRITAIN; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALS, HEAVY; NICKEL; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TIME; ZINC;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 33847296195     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.08.031     Document Type: Article

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