Multi-element atmospheric deposition in Macedonia studied by the moss biomonitoring technique

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 22, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 16077-16097

  Barandovski, Lambe ^a   Frontasyeva, Marina V ^b   Stafilov, Trajče ^a   Šajn, Robert ^c   Ostrovnaya, Tatyana M ^b  

^a SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Atomic absorption spectrometry; Atomic emission spectrometry with inductively coupled plasma; Biomonitoring; Macedonia; Moss; Neutron activation analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; BIOMONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; MOSS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

MACEDONIA [SOUTHERN EUROPE]; SKOPJE; VELES;

BRYOPHYTA; HYPNUM CUPRESSIFORME;

AIR POLLUTANT; HEAVY METAL; TRACE ELEMENT;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BRYOPSIDA; CHEMISTRY; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRY; MACEDONIA (REPUBLIC); MINING; MOSS; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPSIDA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRY; MACEDONIA (REPUBLIC); METALS, HEAVY; MINING; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TRACE ELEMENTS;

EID: 84945443666     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-4787-x     Document Type: Article

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