Decrease in air pollution load in urban environment of Bratislava (Slovakia) inferred from accumulation of metal elements in lichens

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 182, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 361-373

  Guttová, Anna ^a   Lackovičová, Anna ^a   Pišút, Ivan ^a   Pišút, Peter ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Slovakia)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

AAS; Background values; Heavy metals; Lichen bags

Indexed keywords

AAS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; BACKGROUND VALUE; BRATISLAVA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EPIPHYTIC LICHENS; EVERNIA PRUNASTRI; HYPOGYMNIA PHYSODES; IN-SITU; LARGE-SCALE MONITORING; LICHEN BAG; METAL ELEMENTS; POLLUTION LOADS; SLOVAKIA; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

AIR QUALITY; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; LEAD; MANGANESE; METALS; POLLUTION CONTROL;

COPPER;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; ZINC;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EPIPHYTE; LICHEN; METAL; POLLUTION MONITORING; SPATIAL VARIATION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EVERNIA PRUNASTRI; HYPOGYMNIA PHYSODES; INDICATOR ORGANISM; LICHENS; LOWER PLANT; NONHUMAN; PARMELIA; POLLUTION MONITORING; SLOVAKIA; SPECIES COMPARISON; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LICHENS; METALS; SLOVAKIA;

BRATISLAVA; BRATISLAVSKY; SLOVAKIA;

EVERNIA PRUNASTRI; HYPOGYMNIA PHYSODES; PARMELIA SULCATA;

EID: 80054745040     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-1881-5     Document Type: Article

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