Effect of 30 years of road traffic abandonment on epiphytic moss diversity

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 8943-8959

  Plášek, Vítězslav ^a   Nowak, Arkadiusz ^b   Nobis, Marcin ^c,d   Kusza, Grzegorz ^b   Kochanowska, Katarzyna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OPOLE   (Poland)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Epiphytes; Moss monitoring; Orthotrichum; Poland; Road salting; Tilia cordata; Tree conservation

Indexed keywords

FACINGS; FORESTRY; POLLUTION; ROADS AND STREETS;

EPIPHYTES; ORTHOTRICHUM; POLAND; ROAD SALTING; TILIA CORDATA;

TRANSPORTATION;

AIR POLLUTANT; EXHAUST GAS;

AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; BRYOPSIDA; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXHAUST GAS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOSS; POLAND; TOXICITY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPSIDA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POLAND; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84928632227     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-4056-3     Document Type: Article

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