Why does earthworm mucus decrease metal mobility?

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 777-779

  Sizmur, Tom ^a   Palumbo Roe, Barbara ^b   Hodsony, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; METABOLISM; MOTION; MUCUS; SOIL POLLUTANT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; MUCUS; OLIGOCHAETA; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 79952116780     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.124     Document Type: Note

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