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Pollution Monitoring With Lichens

Pollution Monitoring With Lichens - Naturalists' Handbooks

Paperback (01 Jan 1992)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Lichens make excellent material for field studies throughout the year and are valuable for the detection and mapping of pollution. This book provides an overview of the value of lichens for monitoring a range of potentially harmful substances including sulphur dioxide, fluorides, PCBs, metals and radioactive elements.

In each section background information is provided and case studies briefly described to enable the reader to appreciate the potential applications of lichens for monitoring each type of environmental pollutant. To help with the problems of identifying lichens, coloured illustrations are provided of species that commonly grow on trees together with an identification key and direction to more advanced texts for lichens growing on other surfaces.

This book is a digital reprint (without updates) of ISBN 0-85546-289-5 (1992).

Book information

ISBN: 9780855462895
Publisher: Pelagic Publishing
Imprint: Pelagic Publishing
Pub date:
DEWEY: 577.270941
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 76
Weight: 142g
Height: 150mm
Width: 209mm
Spine width: 9mm