Element contents in leaves of four plant species (birch, mountain ash, fern and spruce) along anthropogenic and geogenic concentration gradients

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 377, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 416-433

  Reimann, Clemens ^a   Arnoldussen, Arnold ^b   Boyd, Rognvald ^a   Finne, Tor Erik ^a   Koller, Friedrich ^c   Nordgulen, Øystein ^a   Englmaier, Peter ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Airborne pollution; Biomonitoring; Geogenic background; Transect; Urban influence

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BIODIVERSITY; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

AIRBORNE POLLUTION; BIOMONITORING; GEOGENIC BACKGROUND; GEOGENIC CONCENTRATION; TRANSECT; URBAN INFLUENCE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BARIUM; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BORON; CALCIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; GOLD; IRON; LANTHANUM; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MERCURY; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SILVER; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; SULFUR; TITANIUM; ZINC;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CHEMICAL ELEMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONIFEROUS TREE; FERN; GEOLOGY; LEAF; PH;

AIR POLLUTION; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; BETULA PUBESCENS; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIRCH; BRACKEN FERN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GEOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; NORWAY SPRUCE; PH; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; SORBUS AUCUPARIA;

BETULA; BORON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FERNS; GEOLOGY; METALS; NORWAY; PHOSPHORUS; PICEA; PLANT LEAVES; SEAWATER; SORBUS; SULFUR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; OSLO [NORWAY]; SCANDINAVIA;

BETULA PUBESCENS; FILICOPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM; SORBUS; SORBUS AUCUPARIA;

EID: 34247506706     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.02.011     Document Type: Article

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