Localized field effects of drainage water from abandoned coal mines on intertidal rocky shore seaweeds at St Monans, Scotland

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 659-665

  Woolsey, Sharon ^a   Wilkinson, Martin ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED MINE; BIOACCUMULATION; CATION; CLIMAX; COAL MINE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRAINAGE WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; INHIBITION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MINE WASTE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EFFECT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; ROCKY SHORE; SALINITY; SEAWEED;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FIFE; SAINT MONANS; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CHLOROPHYTA; FUCUS; FUCUS SPIRALIS;

EID: 34249071605     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407053702     Document Type: Article

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