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Qualitative scale for estimating sulphur dioxide air pollution in England and Wales using epiphytic lichens

Abstract

The sulphur dioxide in the air can be estimated qualitatively by studying the lichens growing on trees. A ten-point scale has been constructed and used in pilot surveys in England and Wales, Southeast England and the city of Leicester.
Publication Date:
Jan 01, 1970
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
EDB-84-024871
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Nature (London); (United Kingdom); Journal Volume: 227
Subject:
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; SULFUR DIOXIDE; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; AIR POLLUTION; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; LICHENS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; ALGAE; CHALCOGENIDES; EUROPE; FUNGI; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PLANTS; POLLUTION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SULFUR OXIDES; WESTERN EUROPE; 560303* - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology- Plants- (-1987); 500200 - Environment, Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989)
OSTI ID:
5476044
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: NATUA
Submitting Site:
HEDB
Size:
Pages: 145-148
Announcement Date:
Aug 01, 1983

Citation Formats

Hawksworth, D L, and Rose, F. Qualitative scale for estimating sulphur dioxide air pollution in England and Wales using epiphytic lichens. United Kingdom: N. p., 1970. Web. doi:10.1038/227145a0.
Hawksworth, D L, & Rose, F. Qualitative scale for estimating sulphur dioxide air pollution in England and Wales using epiphytic lichens. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/227145a0
Hawksworth, D L, and Rose, F. 1970. "Qualitative scale for estimating sulphur dioxide air pollution in England and Wales using epiphytic lichens." United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/227145a0.
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author = {Hawksworth, D L, and Rose, F}
abstractNote = {The sulphur dioxide in the air can be estimated qualitatively by studying the lichens growing on trees. A ten-point scale has been constructed and used in pilot surveys in England and Wales, Southeast England and the city of Leicester.}
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