A biological method to monitor early effects of the air pollution caused by the industrial exploitation of geothermal energy

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 383-388

  Paoli, Luca ^a   Loppi, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Ecophysiology; Italy; Lichens; Non fossil resources

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; CELL MEMBRANES; CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANTS; POLLUTION; POLLUTION DETECTION; PORPHYRINS; POWER PLANTS; RELIABILITY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DELETERIOUS EFFECTS; EARLY WARNING; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EPIPHYTIC LICHENS; EVERNIA PRUNASTRI; GEOTHERMAL POWER; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MONITOR (CO); TUSCANY , ITALY;

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY;

CAROTENOID; CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL B;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOLOGICAL METHOD; BIOMONITORING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EPIPHYTE; FOSSIL; LICHEN; PH; PIGMENT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POWER PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSPLANTATION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EVERNIA PRUNASTRI; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT;

AIR POLLUTION; BIODIVERSITY; CAROTENOIDS; CHLOROPHYLL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOT SPRINGS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ITALY; LICHENS; POWER PLANTS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LARDERELLO; PISA [TUSCANY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY;

EVERNIA PRUNASTRI;

EID: 48349095572     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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