Significant contributions of fungal spores to the organic carbon and to the aerosol mass balance of the urban atmospheric aerosol

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 5542-5549

  Bauer, Heidi ^a   Schueller, Elisabeth ^a   Weinke, Gert ^a   Berger, Anna ^a   Hitzenberger, Regina ^b   Marr, Iain L ^c   Puxbaum, Hans ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioaerosol; Fungal spores; Organic carbon; PM10

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; ORGANIC CARBON;

AEROSOL MASS; FUNGAL SPORES; ORGANIC CARBON (OC); PARTICULATE MATTER (PM) 10;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

AEROSOL; FUNGUS; MASS BALANCE; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE MATTER; SPORE; URBAN AREA; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FUNGUS SPORE; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPRING; SUBURBAN AREA; SUMMER; URBAN AREA;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; VIENNA;

EID: 46749131415     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.03.019     Document Type: Article

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