Assessing spatial patterns of metal bioaccumulation in French mosses by means of an exposure index

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 499-507

  Holy, Marcel ^a   Leblond, Sébastien ^b   Pesch, Roland ^a   Schröder, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VECHTA   (Germany)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; CHAID; Decision tree model; Geostatistics; Heavy metal; Percentile statistics

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; GEOSTATISTICS; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; LAND USE; MOSS; POLLUTANT SOURCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UPLAND REGION; URBAN AREA; URBAN DRAINAGE;

BOUCHES DU RHONE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; ILE DE FRANCE; LYONS; MARSEILLES; PARIS; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; RHONE; RHONE-ALPES; VILLE DE PARIS; WESTERN EUROPE;

BRYOPHYTA;

HEAVY METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRANCE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOSS; POLLUTANT;

BRYOPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FRANCE; METALS, HEAVY;

EID: 70349581494     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-009-0146-0     Document Type: Article

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