Radionuclides and heavy metals in Borovac, Southern Serbia

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 509-520

  Popovic, Dragana ^a   Todorovic, Dragana ^b   Frontasyeva, Marina ^c   Ajtic, Jelena ^a   Tasic, Mirjana ^d   Rajsic, Slavica ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Pollution; Radionuclides; Southern Serbia

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL; RADIOISOTOPE; WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HEAVY METAL; RADIONUCLIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HONEY; PLANT; POLLUTANT; SOIL; YUGOSLAVIA;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HONEY; METALS, HEAVY; PLANTS; RADIOISOTOPES; SOIL; WATER; YUGOSLAVIA;

BUJANOVAC; EURASIA; EUROPE; SERBIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 51349110090     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-008-0003-6     Document Type: Article

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