The lichen transplant methodology in the source apportionment of metal deposition around a copper smelter in the former mining town of Karabash, Russia

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 141, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 227-236

  Williamson, B J ^a,b   Purvis, O W ^b   Mikhailova, I N ^c   Spiro, B ^b   Udachin, V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ANIMAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Karabash; Lichen transplants; Monitoring; Smelter; Source apportionment

Indexed keywords

BLAST FURNACES; DEPOSITION; FLOTATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

LICHEN TRANSPLANT METHODOLOGY; MULTI-ELEMENT LEAST-SQUARES MODELLING; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT;

COPPER SMELTING;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; METAL; NICKEL; SELENIUM; STRONTIUM; TITANIUM; ZINC;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; COPPER; LICHEN; MONITORING; SMELTING; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TRANSPLANTATION;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION INDICATOR; AIR QUALITY; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOTATION; LICHENS; METALLURGY; MINING; NONHUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SMELTER; SOIL ANALYSIS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; LICHENS; MINING; RUSSIA;

CHELYABINSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; EURASIA; KARABASH; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

HYPOGYMNIA PHYSODES;

EID: 43249105776     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9890-0     Document Type: Article

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