Peat properties, major and trace element accumulation in bog peat in Latvia

Baltica

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-50

  Klavins, Maris ^a   Silamikele, Inese ^a   Nikodemus, Olgerts ^a   Kalnina, Laimdota ^a   Kuske, Eliza ^a   Rodinov, Valery ^a   Purmalis, Oskars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Peat; Pollution; Trace and major elements

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BOG; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECOMPOSITION; FULVIC ACID; HUMIC ACID; OXYGEN; PEAT; SOIL POLLUTION; SORPTION; TRACE ELEMENT;

BALTIC STATES; EURASIA; EUROPE; LATVIA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350371733     PISSN: 00673064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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