Do metal concentrations in moss from the Zackenberg area, Northeast Greenland, provide a baseline for monitoring?

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-98

  Zechmeister, Harald G ^a,b   Dullinger, Stefan ^a,c   Koellensperger, Gunda ^d   Ertl, Siegrun ^a   Lettner, Christian ^a   Reiter, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Ecotox Austria   (Austria)

^c Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atmospheric deposition; Background pollution; Bryophytes; Heavy metals

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEAVY METAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOSS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLLUTION EFFECT; RESOLUTION; VEGETATION TYPE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; ZACKENBERG;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES;

EID: 78650952840     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-010-0360-9     Document Type: Article

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