Emerging indirect and long-term road salt effects on ecosystems

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1223, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 58-68

  Findlay, Stuart E G ^a   Kelly, Victoria R ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Deicing salts; Ecosystem effects; Exposure; Retention

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; COST; DEICING; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; RAILWAY; REVIEW; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; WARMING;

EID: 79953148371     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05942.x     Document Type: Review

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