Relationships between lichen community composition and concentrations of NO2 and NH3

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2553-2560

  Gadsdon, Sally R ^a   Dagley, Jeremy R ^b   Wolseley, Patricia A ^c   Power, Sally A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Epping Forest   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Canopy; Epiphytic lichens; Nitrogen dioxide; Nitrophyte

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; EPIPHYTIC LICHENS; LICHEN COMMUNITIES; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROGENOUS COMPOUNDS; NITROPHYTE; OXIDES OF NITROGEN; QUERCUS ROBUR;

AIR QUALITY; AMMONIA; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; POLLUTION;

FORESTRY;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; POLLUTANT;

AIR QUALITY; AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOINDICATOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LICHEN; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; POLLUTION EFFECT;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ALGAE, LICHENS, MOSSES AND FERNS; ARTICLE; BARK; CANOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMIDITY; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NONHUMAN; PH; PHYTOTOXICITY; POLLUTION MONITORING; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LICHEN (ORGANISM); METABOLISM; POLLUTANT;

AMMONIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; LICHENS; NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

QUERCUS ROBUR;

EID: 77957694981     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.05.019     Document Type: Article

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