Recovery of the epiphytic lichen flora following air quality improvement in South-West Sweden

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 154, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 203-211

  Hultengren, Svante ^a   Gralén, Helena ^a   Pleijel, Håkan ^b  

^a Naturcentrum   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Lichens; Nitrogen dioxide; Nitrogen impact; Photographic method; Pollution sensitivity; Recovery; Sulphur dioxide; Sweden

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EPIPHYTIC LICHEN FLORA; NITROGEN IMPACTS; PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES;

VEGETATION;

NITROGEN; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EPIPHYTE; LICHEN; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; INDUSTRIAL AREA; LICHENS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEDEN; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PLANTS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 3543052877     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:WATE.0000022967.35036.ca     Document Type: Article

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