Study of Heavy Metal Air Pollution, Using a Moss (Grimmia dissimulate) Biomonitoring Technique

The Survey of Atmospheric Deposition of Heavy Metal in Albania by Using Moss Biomonitoring and Icp/aes and Naa Technique

The atmospheric deposition of As, Cd, Cu, Cr, Fe, Ni, V, and Zn in Albania was investigated by using the carpet-forming moss species (Hypnum cupressiforme) as bioindicators. This research is a part of the international program (International Cooperative Programme (ICP) Vegetation, UNECE) that had carried out in the most of European countries since 1987, by investigating the impacts of air pollu...

Biomonitoring of Air Pollution with Zinc in Croatia Studied by Moss Samples and Icp-aes

Biomonitoring of Heavy Metal Pollution near Copper Smelter in Bor (serbia) Using Acacia

The correlations between sampling sites situated in the close vicinity of copper smelter (Bor, Serbia) based on heavy metal (Pb, Cu, Zn) content in plant parts and soil of acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) were determined. Very strong correlations (R>0.9) were observed between the sites Town park and Hospital in the urban-industiral zone due to high air pollution in this sampling area. The perfo...

Biomonitoring Heavy Metal Pollution Using an Aquatic Apex Predator, the American Alligator, and Its Parasites

Monitoring the bioaccumulation of chemical elements within various organismal tissues has become a useful tool to survey current or chronic levels of heavy metal exposure within an environment. In this study, we compared the bioaccumulations of As, Cd, Cu, Fe, Pb, Se, and Zn between the American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, and its parasites in order to establish their use as bioindic...

Using Moss to Assess Airborne Heavy Metal Pollution in Taizhou, China

Bryophytes act as bioindicators and bioaccumulators of metal deposition in the environment. To understand the atmospheric deposition of heavy metals (cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), mercury (Hg), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb), and zinc (Zn)) in Taizhou, East China, samples of moss (Haplocladium microphyllum) were collected from 60 sites selected by a systematic sampling method during the sum...