Reaction of mollusk population to emissions from the Middle Ural Copper Smelter

Contemporary Problems of Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 667-673

  Nesterkov, A V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ANIMAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

calcium; copper smelter; grass cover; heavy metals; industrial pollution; Middle Urals; terrestrial mollusks

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; CALCIUM; COPPER; GRASS; HERB; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; MOLLUSC; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMELTING; SOIL HORIZON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOXIC MATERIAL;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SVERDLOVSK; URALS;

EID: 84888788617     PISSN: 19954255     EISSN: 19954263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1995425513060085     Document Type: Article

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