Influence of environmental pollution on Leaf properties of urban plane trees, Platanus orientalis L.

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 251-255

  Pourkhabbaz, Alireza ^b   Rastin, Nayerah ^b   Olbrich, Andrea ^a   Langenfeld Heyser, Rosemarie ^a   Polle, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b HAWK UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Filtering; Heavy metal; Leaf anatomy

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL PROPERTIES; DUST PARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; FILTERING; LEAF ANATOMY; LEAF PROPERTIES; LEAF SURFACES; MASHHAD , IRAN; MEGACITIES; TOXIC ELEMENTS; TRAFFIC EXHAUSTS; TRAFFIC POLLUTION; URBAN SITE;

AIR QUALITY; HEAVY METALS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RURAL AREAS;

POLLUTION;

PLATANUS; PLATANUS ORIENTALIS;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FERN; METABOLISM; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STOMA; TREE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FERNS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STOMATA; TREES;

EID: 78049495498     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-010-0047-4     Document Type: Article

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