Estimation of the ammonia critical level for epiphytic lichens based on observations at farm, landscape and national scales

Atmospheric Ammonia: Detecting Emission Changes and Environmental Impacts - Results of an Expert Workshop under the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 71-86

  Sutton, Mark A ^a   Wolseley, Pat A ^b   Leith, Ian D ^b   Van Dijk, Netty ^b   Tang, Y Sim ^b   James, P W ^b   Theobald, Mark R ^b   Whitfield, Clare ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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