Air quality for metals and sulfur in Shanghai, China, determined with moss bags

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1270-1278

  Cao, Tong ^a   Wang, Min ^a   An, Li ^a   Yu, Yinghao ^a   Lou, Yuxia ^a   Guo, Shuiliang ^a   Zuo, Benrong ^a   Liu, Yan ^a   Wu, Jiming ^b   Cao, Yang ^c   Zhu, Zhirui ^d  

^a SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jingan Monitoring Station of Shanghai   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Haplocladium microphyllum; Monitoring; Moss bag; Shanghai

Indexed keywords

BIO-MONITORING; HAPLOCLADIUM MICROPHYLLUM; INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS; MONITORING STATIONS; MOSS BAG; MOSS-BAGS; SHANGHAI; SHANGHAI , CHINAS; SPACE AND TIME; SUBURBAN AREAS; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

LEAD; SULFUR; ZINC;

AIR QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY; BIOMONITORING; METAL; MOSS; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SULFUR;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BRYOPHYTA; CHINA; CITIES; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LEAD; METALS; SULFUR; ZINC;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHANGHAI;

BRYOHAPLOCLADIUM MICROPHYLLUM; BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 60949102960     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.11.051     Document Type: Article

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