Spatial patterns and autocorrelation in the response of microarthropods to soil pollutants: The example of oribatid mites in an abandoned mining and smelting area

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2939-2948

  Caruso, Tancredi ^a   Migliorini, Massimo ^a   Bucci, Charlie ^a   Bargagli, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Metal pollution; Microarthropods; Modelling; Soil; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATED; CONCENTRATION OF; ERROR TERMS; EXOGENOUS FACTORS; FIELD STUDIES; KEY ISSUES; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENTS; MACROFAUNA; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; METAL POLLUTION; MICROARTHROPODS; MODELLING; ORGANIC MATTER; PB AND CU; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION; SPATIAL MODELS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; STUDY AREAS;

CORRELATION DETECTORS; METALS; MINING; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; ZINC;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; ZINC;

ARTHROPOD; MINING; MODELING; ORGANIC MATTER; SMELTING; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MINING; MITE; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTANT; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; INSECTS; METALLURGY; METALS, HEAVY; MINING; MITES; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

ACARI; FUNGI; ORIBATIDA;

EID: 68949200811     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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