Active moss biomonitoring of small-scale spatial distribution of airborne major and trace elements in the Belgrade urban area

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 5461-5470

  Vuković, Gordana ^a   Aničić Urošević, Mira ^a   Razumenić, Ivana ^b   Goryainova, Zoya ^c   Frontasyeva, Marina ^c   Tomašević, Milica ^a   Popović, Aleksandar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Active biomonitoring; Major and trace elements; Moss bags; Spatial distribution; Sphagnum girgensohnii; Urban area

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MICROCLIMATE; MOSS; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREET CANYON; TRACE ELEMENT; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLLUTION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

BELGRADE; SERBIA;

BRYOPHYTA; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM GIRGENSOHNII;

EID: 84880637098     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-1561-9     Document Type: Article

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