Air pollution studies in Bulgaria using the moss biomonitoring technique

Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-52

  Marinova, Savka ^a   Yurukova, Lilyana ^b   Frontasyeva, Marina V ^c   Steinnes, Eiliv ^d   Strelkova, Lyudmila P ^c   Marinov, Alexander ^a   Karadzhinova, Anelia G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atmospheric deposition; Atomic absorption spectrometry; Factor analysis; Moss biomonitoring; Neutron activation analysis; Sources; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449267655     PISSN: 18986196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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