Active moss biomonitoring for extensive screening of urban air pollution: Magnetic and chemical analyses

Vuković, Gordana; Urošević, Mira Aničić; Goryainova, Z. I.; Pergal, Miodrag M.; Škrivanj, Sandra; Samson, Roeland; Popović, Aleksandar

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.085

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“…In previous studies, an RAF higher than 0.5 indicated a slight elemental enrichment in moss, and values >1 indicated considerable elemental enrichment [ 33 , 41 ]. In the current study, the RAF indicated Cr, Cu, and V to be the most abundant elements in the moss exposed to air within the studied roads.…”

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Monitoring Heavy Metal Contents with Sphagnum Junghuhnianum Moss Bags in Relation to Traffic Volume in Wuxi, China

Yan

Zhou

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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Despite its small size, a moss bag can reveal the different temporal and spatial deposition patterns of pollutants at a particular site; therefore, researchers can use moss bags to determine pollution sources and to put forward strategies for pollution control. Although the use of moss bags to monitor atmospheric pollution has been widely reported in Europe, there are few such empirical studies in China. Thus, in this study, bags containing the moss Sphagnum junghuhnianum were used to assess the concentrations of heavy metals (chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), lead (Pb), vanadium (V), and zinc (Zn)) at five sampling sites (four roads and a forest park) during the summer and winter of 2012. According to the relative accumulation factor (RAF) and contamination factor (CF) results, pollution in winter was heavier than that in summer, and Cr was found to be the most contaminating, having the highest mean CF. There was a significant positive correlation (p < 0.05) between traffic volume and concentration for three heavy metals (Cr, Cu, and V) in winter, whereas a significant positive correlation (p < 0.05) was observed between traffic volume and concentrations for four heavy metal elements (Cr, Pb, V, and Zn) in summer, indicating a close relationship between heavy metal contents and traffic volume. Although there was substantial variation in the concentrations of the five heavy metals in the moss bags, significant correlations between heavy metals suggested that the contaminants originated from a common source, namely vehicle emissions. The results demonstrated that the four roads were subject to different degrees of pollution depending on the volume of traffic using each road. Therefore, the results of this study suggest that traffic volume is a major reason for heavy metal pollution.

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Monitoring Heavy Metal Contents with Sphagnum Junghuhnianum Moss Bags in Relation to Traffic Volume in Wuxi, China

Yan

Zhou

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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“…Magnetic properties of tree leaves as biocarriers of the deposited atmospheric dust have been investigated in relation to air pollution by many authors (Hofman et al, 2017;Jordanova et al, 2010b;Jordanova et al, 2003;Kardel et al, 2018;Kardel et al, 2011;Kardel et al, 2012;Maher et al, 2008;Matzka and Maher, 1999;Mitchell and Maher, 2009;Mitchell et al, 2010;Moreno et al, 2003;Rodriguez-Germade et al, 2014;Sagnotti et al, 2009;Zhang et al, 2006). There are also numerous studies on magnetic properties of tree needles (Jordanova et al, 2010;Lehndorff et al, 2006;Urbat et al, 2004), tree barks, rings or branches (Brignole et al, 2018;Vezzola et al, 2017;Wuyts et al, 2018;Zhang et al, 2009;Zhang et al, 2008), lichens, in situ or transplanted (Chaparro et al, 2013;Kodnik et al, 2017;Marie et al, 2016;Marie et al, 2018;Paoli et al, 2017;Salo et al, 2012), and moss and transplanted moss bags (Fabian et al, 2011;Limo et al, 2018;Salo et al, 2012Salo et al, , 2016aSalo et al, , 2016bMakinen, 2014, 2019;Vukovic et al, 2015a;Vukovic et al, 2015b). High sensitivity of magnetic methods enabled even examination of magnetic properties of spider webs (Rachwal et al, 2018).…”

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Negative correlation between concentration of iron oxides and particulate matter in atmospheric dust: case study at industrial site during smoggy period

Petrovský¹,

Kapicka²,

Grison³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Background: Environmental magnetism, focusing on ferrimagnetic iron oxides, provides useful additional information on pollution of different environments. Magnetic methods have been applied to studies of atmospheric dust, namely PM10 (particulate matter smaller than 10 micrometers) in, e.g., industrial or urban areas. Until now, positive correlation was reported between concentration of iron oxides (expressed in terms of either magnetic susceptibility, saturation remanent or saturation induced magnetization) and concentration of PM10 or smaller. Purpose of this study was to verify the relationship between iron oxides and PM at monitoring site close to source of emissions rich in iron oxides during period of smoggy conditions. Results: We examined 24-hours PM10 and PM1 samples, collected during 10 days of smoggy winter period at a site close to steel plant, which represents a significant source of atmospheric emissions in industrial region of Northern Moravia (Czech Republic), known for generally high degree of air pollution. Magnetic hysteresis loops were measured in order to obtain parameters reflecting the concentration and grain-size distribution of iron oxides. Our data show unexpected negative correlation between saturation magnetization (concentration of ferrimagnetic iron oxides) and both PM1 and PM10 concentrations, to the best of our knowledge the trend not being reported yet. Conclusions: Our finding may seemingly disqualify magnetic methods as useful proxy in air pollution studies. However, we suggest that this is an exceptional case, specific to this region and monitoring site, as well as to synoptic conditions during the smoggy period. Although the significant dust emissions are presumably rich in iron oxides, the overall air quality at the monitoring site is determined by the general environment, controlled by many other sources of different character in the region, and by the specific climatic conditions. Thus, the nearby steel plant, presumably emitting dust rich in ferrimagnetic iron oxides, dominates the deposited dust at the nearby monitoring site only during very few days of suitable weather (namely wind speed and direction).

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“…BioMAP itself deals already more than 20 years with these innovative methods (some relevant examples on B&B activities are given in Almeida et al 2015;Branquinho et al 2008;Chudzińska et al 2015;El-Khabib et al 2011;Figueiredo et al 2001;Freitas et al 2007;Frontasyeva et al 2004 andGorelova et al 2010, Kang et al 2008Lodenius et al 2005, Loppi et al 1994Loppi and Bonini 2000;Nassri et al 2015;Markert et al 2014 andPaoli et al 2013;Prapamontol et al 2014;Saiki et al 2007;Samson et al 2015;Steinnes et al 1997 andSuchara et al 2011;Vuković et al 2015;Youssef et al 2014;Wolterbeek et al 1995 andWünschmann et al 2008). Yet, there is another realm of science where the accreditation and quality control measures have a long and formally well-understood tradition: analytical chemistry.…”

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Quality means decency–on the quality of teaching through accreditation of the course?

Markert¹,

Delakowitz

Fränzle

et al. 2015

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The term "accreditation" applies to the attempts in various fields of scientific work and administration. It refers to an acknowledgement of some particular positive (wanted) property being present in or brought about by either a procedure or technical system, an acknowledgement which is then formally issued by some authority generally accepted to be able to prove and file such statements. Bioindication & Biomonitoring (B&B) technologies are highly influenced by accreditation procedures, because both B&B technologies are often related to accreditation during the overall instrumental measurement processes applied. As an example, tuna fish used for (bio) monitoring salt water systems on pollution by Pb will be presented. Analytical measurement results from the International Measurement Evaluation Programme (IMEP 20) and additionally the construction of the university course "Integrative sustainable management: quality, environmental, health, safety and risk management (QUAR)" are reviewed in this respect. It was a serious finding by the multi-participant IMEP study that neither quality control measures nor accreditation actually ensure improved quality of measurement results, i.e. data produced by analytical laboratories. Accordingly, even though the accreditation of study curricula is often done with utmost diligence and precision, and while it is fairly important for making study curricula throughout Europe (and the World) fitting and comparable to each other to get study results produced and tested at university X also be accepted when changing to university Y, we cannot assume or take for granted that the mere protocol of accreditation will do anything positive to improve the chance to get better or "more correct" results. A single member of lab staff or professor changing to some other position might seriously compromise the turnout of some analytical lab or university course at least in the short term regardless of whether accreditation was done or not. As consequence, data obtained by B&B technologies have to be discussed and handled with the highest care to reach acceptable and scientifically sound goals of quality.

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Active moss biomonitoring for extensive screening of urban air pollution: Magnetic and chemical analyses

Cited by 55 publications

References 57 publications

Monitoring Heavy Metal Contents with Sphagnum Junghuhnianum Moss Bags in Relation to Traffic Volume in Wuxi, China

Monitoring Heavy Metal Contents with Sphagnum Junghuhnianum Moss Bags in Relation to Traffic Volume in Wuxi, China

Negative correlation between concentration of iron oxides and particulate matter in atmospheric dust: case study at industrial site during smoggy period

Quality means decency–on the quality of teaching through accreditation of the course?

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