Biomonitoring with epiphytic lichens as a complementary method for the study of mercury contamination near a cement plant

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 181, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 225-241

  Mlakar, Tanja Ljubič ^a   Horvat, Milena ^b   Kotnik, Jože ^b   Jeran, Zvonka ^b   Vuk, Tomaž ^a   Mrak, Tanja ^b   Fajon, Vesna ^b  

^a Salonit Anhovo   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Cement plant; Emission; Epiphytic lichens; Mercury

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE BIOMONITORING; BIOMONITORING; COMPLEMENTARY METHODS; DUST DEPOSITS; DUST PARTICLE; ELEMENTAL MERCURY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIPHYTIC LICHENS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; HG CONCENTRATIONS; IN-SITU; INSTRUMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY CONTAMINATION; MERCURY EMISSIONS; MERCURY SPECIATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; MONITORING PERIODS; PSEUDEVERNIA FURFURACEA; REACTIVE GASEOUS MERCURY; REFERENCE SITES; WORKING HOURS;

CEMENT PLANTS; CEMENTS; DEPOSITS; DUST; GAS PLANTS; MERCURY (METAL); MONITORING;

MERCURY DEPOSITS;

MERCURY; RAIN;

ALKALINITY; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; BIOMONITORING; CEMENT; EMISSION; EPIPHYTE; LICHEN; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CEMENT INDUSTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; EXHAUST GAS; LICHENS; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRECIPITATION; PSEUDEVERNIA FURFURACEA; TEMPERATURE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LICHENS; MERCURY; SLOVENIA;

PSEUDEVERNIA FURFURACEA;

EID: 80054738294     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1825-5     Document Type: Article

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