Monitoring of traffic-related pollution in a province of central italy with transplanted lichen pseudovernia furfuracea

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 852-858

  Guidotti, Maurizio ^a   Stella, Daniela ^a   Dominici, Carola ^a   Blasi, Gianfranco ^a   Owczarek, Malgorzata ^b   Vitali, Matteo ^c   Protano, Carmela ^c  

^a ARPA Lazio (Agenzia Regionale Per la Protezione Ambientale)   (Italy)

^b Istituto Sperimentale per lo Studio e la Difesa del Suolo   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Lichen; Pollution; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE POLLUTANTS; BEFORE AND AFTER; BIOMONITORS; CENTRAL ITALY; FLUORANTHENE; LICHEN; PSEUDEVERNIA FURFURACEA; TRAFFIC DENSITIES; TRAFFIC-RELATED;

LEAD; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; ZINC;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

HEAVY METAL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ITALY; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION MONITORING; PSEUDOVERNIA FURFURACEA; TRAFFIC;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ASCOMYCOTA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ITALY; LICHENS; METALS, HEAVY; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

PSEUDEVERNIA FURFURACEA;

EID: 71449119723     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-009-9792-7     Document Type: Article

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