Epiphytic lichens as biomonitors of airborne heavy metal pollution

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 88, Issue , 2013, Pages 24-32

  Kularatne, K I A ^a   De Freitas, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Biomonitoring; Equilibrium time; Heavy metals; Lichens; New Zealand; Parmotrema reticulatum

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EPIPHYTE; EQUILIBRIUM; HEAVY METAL; LICHEN; POLLUTION EFFECT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AUCKLAND; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

PARMOTREMA RETICULATUM;

EID: 84875251215     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2012.02.010     Document Type: Article

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