Effect of tailings on wetland vegetation in Rautuvaara, a former iron-copper mining area in northern Finland

Journal of Geochemical Exploration

Volumn 116-117, Issue , 2012, Pages 60-65

  Närhi, Paavo ^a   Räisänen, Marja Liisa ^b   Sutinen, Marja Liisa ^c   Sutinen, Raimo ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Centre for Economic Development Transport and the Environment   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carex rostrata; Equisetum palustre; Eriophorum angustifolium; Metal; Phytostabilization; Wetland

Indexed keywords

CAREX ROSTRATA; CONTAMINATED AREAS; EQUISETUM PALUSTRE; ERIOPHORUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM; FINLAND; FINNISH; HIGH CONCENTRATION; IRON-COPPER; METAL POLLUTION; MINE TAILINGS; MINING AREAS; MULTIPLE METALS; PHYTOSTABILIZATION; PLANT DIVERSITY; PLANT SPECIES; PLANT SPECIES COMPOSITION; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SOIL CHEMICAL VARIABLES; TOXIC ELEMENTS; VEGETATION COMPOSITION; WETLAND VEGETATION;

BOTTLES; COPPER MINES; ECOSYSTEMS; METALS; SOILS; TAILINGS; VEGETATION; WETLANDS; ZINC;

EFFLUENTS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; EFFLUENT; IRON; MINE WASTE; MINING; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; TAILINGS; VEGETATION COVER; WETLAND;

FINLAND; LAPPI [FINLAND];

CAREX ROSTRATA; EQUISETUM PALUSTRE; ERIOPHORUM; ERIOPHORUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM;

EID: 84860368790     PISSN: 03756742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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