Soil-to-plant transfer of uranium and its distribution between plant parts in four boreal forest species

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 158-166

  Roivainen, Päivi ^a   Makkonen, Sari ^a   Holopainen, Toini ^a   Juutilainen, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

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Indexed keywords

CONVALLARIA; DRYOPTERIS; DRYOPTERIS CARTHUSIANA; FILICOPHYTA; LILIUM; MAIANTHEMUM BIFOLIUM; PICEA ABIES; SORBUS; SORBUS AUCUPARIA;

EID: 79955141364     PISSN: 12396095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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