Altered vegetative assemblage trajectories within an urban brownfield

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 159, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1159-1166

  Gallagher, Frank J ^a   Pechmann, Ildiko ^b   Holzapfel, Claus ^b   Grabosky, Jason ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assemblage trajectory; Brownfield; Soil metals; Vegetative guild

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLAGE TRAJECTORY; BROWN FIELDS; BROWNFIELD; DOMINANT SPECIES; HIGH CONCENTRATION; NATURAL CYCLE; PLANT TISSUES; POPULUS SPP; POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOP; SOIL METALS; STABLE STATE; URBAN ECOLOGY; URBAN SITE; VEGETATIVE GUILD;

ARSENIC; BIODIVERSITY; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; ECOLOGY; FEEDBACK; METALS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS; TRAJECTORIES; VANADIUM;

COPPER;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; VANADIUM; ZINC;

BROWNFIELD SITE; HERB; SOIL CHEMISTRY; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARTEMISIA VULGARIS; ARTICLE; BETULA POPULIFOLIA; BIRCH; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; FLOODPLAIN; GRASSLAND; LANDSCAPE; LYTHRACEAE; MARSH; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; RHUS COPALLINIUM; SHRUB; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOLIDAGO; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; WETLAND;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIOTA; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; METALS; NEW JERSEY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

BETULA POPULIFOLIA; POPULUS;

EID: 79954424077     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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