Abstract
SUMMARYThe lead and zinc contents of shoot material of Agrostis tennis, Festuca ovina and Minuartia verna and of the soil in which they were growing at an abandoned lead‐mining area on Grassington Moor, Yorkshire, England were determined. The relationship between the zinc contents of shoot material and soil was broadly linear. There was little increase, however, in the lead content of the shoot material over the range 500‐20000 μg g−1 lead in the soil. Above this value the lead content of the shoot material increased markedly. There were large differences between samples in the metal contents of the shoot material collected from soils having the same metal contents. Possible reasons for this variation are discussed and specific suggestions for future comparative work are made.
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