| lichens as biomonitors of air quality around a diamond mine, northwest territories, canada. | lichens are known to be bioaccumulators of atmospheric pollutants and are abundant in the canadian arctic. mining in this region may negatively impact the tundra communities and these impacts may be detected by increased accumulation of heavy metals, greenhouse gas constituents, and organic compounds in lichen tissue. the effect of sampling direction and distance from a diamond mine on bioaccumulation in three lichen species, flavocetraria nivalis, flavocetraria cucullata, and cladina arbuscula, ... | 2008 | 18689728 |