Are cadmium, lead and mercury concentrations in mosses across Europe primarily determined by atmospheric deposition of these metals?

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1572-1584

  Schröder, Winfried ^a   Holy, Marcel ^a   Pesch, Roland ^a   Harmens, Harry ^b   Ilyin, Ilia ^c   Steinnes, Eiliv ^d   Alber, Renate ^e   Aleksiayenak, Yuliya ^f   Blum, Oleg ^g   Coşkun, Mahmut ^h   Dam, Maria ⁱ   De Temmerman, Ludwig ^j   Frolova, Marina ^k   Frontasyeva, Marina ^l   Miqueo, Laura Gonzalez ^m   Grodzińska, Krystyna ⁿ   Jeran, Zvonka ^o   Korzekwa, Szymon ^p   Krmar, Miodrag ^q   Kubin, Eero ^r   Kvietkus, Kestutis ^s   Leblond, Sébastien ^t   Liiv, Siiri ^u   Magnússon, Sigurdur ^v   Maňkovská, Blanka ^w   Piispanen, Juha ^r   Rühling, Åke ^x   Santamaria, Jesus ^m   Spiric, Zdravko ^y   Suchara, Ivan ^z   Thöni, Lotti ^aa   Urumov, Viktor ^ab   Yurukova, Lilyana ^ac   Zechmeister, Harald G ^ad   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF VECHTA   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Meteorological Synthesizing Centre East of EMEP   (Russian Federation)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e Environmental Agency of Bolzano   (Italy)

^f International Sakharov Environmental University   (Belarus)

^g INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^h ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

ⁱ Food Veterinary and Environmental Agency   (Denmark)

^j VETERINARY AND AGROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^k Latvian Environment   (Latvia)

^l JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^m UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

ⁿ POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^o JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^p UNIVERSITY OF OPOLE   (Poland)

^q UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^r FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^s Institute of Physics   (Lithuania)

^t MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^u Tallinn Botanic Garden   (Estonia)

^v ICELANDIC INSTITUTE OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Iceland)

^w INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^x Institute for Applied Ecology ^*  (Sweden)

^y Department of Natural Resources Management   (Croatia)

^z SILVA TAROUCA RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LANDSCAPE AND ORNAMENTAL GARDENING   (Czech Republic)

^aa FUB Research Group for Environmental Monitoring   (Switzerland)

^ab SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

^ac INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Cadmium; Correlation analysis; Deposition; Lead; Mercury; Moss

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOMONITORING; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; GIS; LEAD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MOSS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EUROPE;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 77958177783     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-010-0254-y     Document Type: Article

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