Variation in air pollution tolerance index of plants near a steel factory: Implications for landscape-plant species selection for industrial areas

WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-32

  Liu, Yan Ju ^a   Ding, Hui ^a  

^a Beijing Centre for Physical and Chemical Analysis   (China)

Author keywords

Air pollution tolerance index; APTI; Ascorbic acid; Leaf relative water content; Leaf total chlorophyll; Leaf extract pH

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHLOROPHYLL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HERB; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; LEAF; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; SHRUB; STEEL; VINE; WATER CONTENT;

AILANTHUS; AILANTHUS ALTISSIMA; AMPELOPSIS; AMPELOPSIS ACONITIFOLIA; BROUSSONETIA; BROUSSONETIA PAPYRIFERA; IPOMOEA PURPUREA; METAPLEXIS JAPONICA; RHAMNUS; ROBINIA; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA; VITEX; VITEX NEGUNDO; ZIZIPHUS;

EID: 46449112103     PISSN: 17905079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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