The influence of nitrogen in stemflow and precipitation on epiphytic bryophytes, Isothecium myosuroides Brid., Dicranum scoparium Hewd. and Thuidium tamariscinum (Hewd.) Schimp of Atlantic oakwoods

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 237-246

  Leith, I D ^a   Mitchell, R J ^a   Truscott, A M ^a   Cape, J N ^a   van Dijk, N ^a   Smith, R I ^a   Fowler, D ^a   Sutton, M A ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epiphytic bryophytes; N deposition; Rainfall; Stemflow; Tissue N concentration

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; NONMETALS;

ATLANTIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MAJOR IONS; N-DEPOSITION; NITROGEN CONCENTRATIONS; PRECIPITATION (METALLOGRAPHY); Q. ROBUR; QUERCUS PETRAEA; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP ('MA' PERCEPTIVE DISTANCE); STEM FLOW;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

NITROGEN; RAIN;

BRYOPHYTE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECIDUOUS TREE; EPIPHYTE; NITROGEN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STEMFLOW;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICRANUM SCOPARIUM; EPIPHYTE; ISOTHECIUM MYOSUROIDES; MOSS; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NONHUMAN; OAK; QUERCUS PETRAEA; QUERCUS ROBUR; THUIDIUM TAMARISCINUM;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AMMONIA; BIODIVERSITY; BRYOPHYTA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FERTILIZERS; GREAT BRITAIN; NITROGEN; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; QUERCUS; RAIN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BRYOPHYTES; DICRANUM SCOPARIUM; EURHYNCHIUM; ISOTHECIUM MYOSUROIDES; QUERCUS ATLANTICA; QUERCUS PETRAEA; THUIDIUM TAMARISCINUM;

EID: 48549103510     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.11.031     Document Type: Article

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