Responses of the mangroves Avicennia marina and Bruguiera gymnorrhiza to oil contamination

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 205, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 357-362

  Naidoo, Gonasageran ^a   Naidoo, Yougasphree ^a   Achar, Premila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adventitious roots; Bunker fuel oil; Chlorophyll fluorescence; Debarking; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ADVENTITIOUS ROOT; BIOINDICATOR; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CHLOROPHYLL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELDWORK; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; MANGROVE; MORPHOLOGY; OIL POLLUTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLLUTION EFFECT;

AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA MARINA; BRUGUIERA GYMNORHIZA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 77951207162     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2009.12.033     Document Type: Article

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