Multiple indicators of human impacts on the environment in the Pechora Basin, north-eastern European Russia

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 765-779

  Walker, Tony R ^a   Crittenden, Peter D ^a   Dauvalter, Vladimir A ^b   Jones, Vivienne ^c   Kuhry, Peter ^d   Loskutova, Olga ^e   Mikkola, Kari ^f   Nikula, Ari ^f   Patova, Elena ^e   Ponomarev, Vasily I ^e   Pystina, Tatyana ^e   Rätti, Osmo ^g   Solovieva, Nadia ^c   Stenina, Angelina ^e   Virtanen, Tarmo ^h   Young, Scott D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF NORTH INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^f FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Environmental chemistry; Forestry; Oil and gas industries; Pechora Region; Russian Arctic

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; FORESTRY; GASES; POLLUTION DETECTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TIMBER; WATER ANALYSIS;

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES; ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY; EUROPEANS; FOREST LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES; HUMAN IMPACTS; LAKE WATERS; LANDSCAPE ANALYSES; LOCAL IMPACTS; LONG RANGES; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; OIL AND GAS INDUSTRIES; PECHORA REGION; REGIONAL SCALES; REMOTE AREAS; RUSSIAN ARCTIC; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRIES; SPATIAL SCALES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FORESTRY; GAS INDUSTRY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; OIL INDUSTRY; POLLUTION EFFECT;

ARCTIC REGIONS; BASINS; BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; FORESTS; GAS; INDICATORS; INDUSTRIAL WASTES; LAKES; LICHENS; OIL; POLLUTION CONTROL; SEDIMENTS; WATER ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; EURASIA; KOMI; PECHORA BASIN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; USINSK; VORKUTA;

AVES;

EID: 58249083742     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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