Threshold increases in soil lead and mercury from tropospheric deposition across an elevational gradient

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 8061-8068

  Stankwitz, Clare ^a,b   Kaste, James M ^a   Friedland, Andrew J ^c  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b Cadmus Group Inc   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; BERYLLIUM-7; CLOUD BASE; CONIFEROUS FORESTS; COSMOGENIC; DATA SETS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; HIGH RESOLUTION; LEAD 210; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; PRIMARY MECHANISM; RESIDENCE TIME; SCAVENGING EFFECT; SOIL CONTAMINANTS; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL METALS; VEGETATION SPECIES; VERMONT;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BERYLLIUM; FORESTRY; LEAD; LEAD COMPOUNDS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; SOILS; TROPOSPHERE; VEGETATION;

MERCURY (METAL);

BERYLLIUM 7; LEAD; LEAD 210; MERCURY;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CLOUD DROPLET; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ELEVATION; LEAD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); OROGRAPHY; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL POLLUTION; TROPOSPHERE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CLOUD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST; SOIL POLLUTION; TROPOSPHERE; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; LEAD; MERCURY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; VERMONT;

BERYLLIUM; FORESTRY; LEAD; LEAD COMPOUNDS; MERCURY; METEOROLOGY; PLANTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOIL;

CAMELS HUMP STATE FOREST; UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

CAMELIDAE;

EID: 84864686264     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204208w     Document Type: Article

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