Biodiversity of Collembola in urban soils and their use as bioindicators for pollution;Biodiversidade de Collembola em solos urbanos e o seu uso como bioindicadores de poluição

Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 868-873

  Fiera, Cristina ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Soil contamination; Species diversity; Urban parks

Indexed keywords

COLLEMBOLA;

EID: 77349108355     PISSN: 0100204X     EISSN: 16783921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-204X2009000800010     Document Type: Article

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