Using native epiphytic ferns to estimate the atmospheric mercury levels in a small-scale gold mining area of West Java, Indonesia

Chemosphere

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 241-248

  Kono, Yuriko ^a   Rahajoe, Joeni S ^b   Hidayati, Nuril ^b   Kodamatani, Hitoshi ^a   Tomiyasu, Takashi ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Atmospheric mercury; Biomonitoring; Epiphytic fern; Mercury pollution; Small scale gold mining; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; GOLD MINES; MERCURY AMALGAMS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY; BIOMONITORING; EPIPHYTIC FERN; GOLD MINING; MERCURY POLLUTION;

RIVER POLLUTION;

GOLD; MERCURY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EPIPHYTE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FERN; GOLD MINE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NATIVE SPECIES; POLLUTION EFFECT; RIVER POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FERN; INDONESIA; MINING; NONHUMAN; VAPOR;

INDONESIA; WEST JAVA;

ASPLENIUM NIDUS; FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 84864065931     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.04.027     Document Type: Article

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