Coal mining activities change plant community structure due to air pollution and soil degradation

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1474-1483

  Pandey, Bhanu ^a   Agrawal, Madhoolika ^a   Singh, Siddharth ^b  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MINING AND FUEL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Coal mining; Community characteristics; Diversity index; Plant ecology; Soil degradation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COAL MINING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; PLANT; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL QUALITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMARANTHACEAE; AMBIENT AIR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BIODIVERSITY; BULK DENSITY; COAL MINING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONVOLVULACEAE; CYPERACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; FABACEAE; INDIA; LAMIACEAE; MALVACEAE; METEOROLOGY; NONHUMAN; NYCTAGINACEAE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT STRESS; PLANT STRUCTURES; POACEAE; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY; SOLANACEAE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLANT; POLLUTION; SOIL;

BIHAR; INDIA; JHARIA COALFIELD; RANIGANJ; WEST BENGAL;

SOIL;

AIR POLLUTION; BIODIVERSITY; COAL MINING; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; INDIA; PLANTS; SOIL;

EID: 84911975871     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: 15733017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-014-1289-4     Document Type: Article

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