Data quality in laboratories: Methods and results for soil, foliar, and water chemical analyses

Developments in Environmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue , 2013, Pages 415-453

  König, Nils ^a   Cools, Nathalie ^b   Derome, Kirsti ^c   Kowalska, Anna ^d   De Vos, Bruno ^b   Fürst, Alfred ^e   Marchetto, Aldo ^f   O'Dea, Philip ^g   Tartari, Gabriele A ^f  

^a Northwest German Forest Research Station   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^e FEDERAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE FOR FORESTS   (Austria)

^f CNR   (Italy)

^g Technical Services ^*  (Ireland)

Author keywords

Control charts; Ion balance; Plausible ranges; Quality assurance; Quality control; Reference material; Ring test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875508492     PISSN: 14748177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-098222-9.00022-4     Document Type: Chapter

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