Air pollution study in croatia using moss biomonitoring and ICP-AES and AAS analytical techniques

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-46

  Špirić, Zdravko ^a   Vučković, Ivana ^b   Stafilov, Trajče ^b   Kušan, Vladimir ^a   Frontasyeva, Marina ^c  

^a Institute for Applied Ecology   (Croatia)

^b SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; MERCURY; NICKEL; VANADIUM; ZINC;

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARSENIC; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BIOMONITORING; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MOSS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; AUTUMN; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOSS; NORWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BRYOPHYTA; CROATIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; METALS, HEAVY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

CROATIA; NORWAY;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84879303931     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: 14320703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-013-9884-6     Document Type: Article

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