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RECORD NUMBER: 363 OF 1026

Main Title Evaluating the utility of natural vegetation in assessing arctic accumulation of air toxics.
Author Santelmann, Mary V.
CORP Author Oregon State Univ., Corvallis. Dept. of General Science.;Corvallis Environmental Research Lab., OR.
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Research Laboratory, [1991]
Year Published 0
Report Number EPA/600/3-91/055
Stock Number PB92-103464
Additional Subjects Toxic substances ; Air pollution effects(Plants) ; Vegetation ; Deposition ; Arctic regions ; Air pollution sampling ; Trace amounts ; Metals ; Concentration(Composition) ; Site surveys ; Lead(Metal) ; Data processing ; Bioaccumulation ; Food chains ; Plants(Botany)
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NTIS  PB92-103464 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation vi, 143 p.
Abstract
Accumulation of toxic, airborne pollutants in the arctic and sub-arctic is of growing concern to scientists. Levels of atmospheric deposition of these elements in the arctic prior to anthropogenic augmentation of their cycling are unknown, and in many cases, current concentrations of these elements in surface vegetation and their rates of deposition in the arctic are also unknown. The purpose of this document is to provide species-specific information on the use of natural vegetation to monitor trace-metal deposition and accumulation in high-latitude regions of North America. Data will help in research design for arctic contamination studies, because they aid in estimating expected concentration ranges and between and within-site variability of element concentrations in vegetation samples.