Contribution of fungal spores to organic carbon in ambient aerosols in Beijing, China

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 351-358

  Liang, Linlin ^a,b   Engling, Guenter ^c,d   Du, Zhenyu ^b,e   Duan, Fengkui ^b   Cheng, Yuan ^b   Liu, Xuyan ^b,f   He, Kebin ^b  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e National Center for Environmental Analysis and Measurements   (China)

^f NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Fungi; Mannitol; Molecular tracers; OC; PM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992314112     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apr.2016.10.007     Document Type: Article

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