Developing a novel warning-informative system as a tool for environmental decision-making based on biomonitoring

Ştefănuţ, S.; Manole, Anca; Ion, Mihaela C.; Constantin, Marian; Banciu, Cristian; Onete, Marilena; Manu, Minodora; Vicol, Ioana; Moldoveanu, Mirela; Maican, Sanda; Cobzaru, Ioana; Nicoară, Roxana G.; Florescu, Larisa I.; Mogîldea, Elena D.; Purice, Dorina; Nicolae, Claudia D.; Catană, Rodica D.; Teodosiu, Gabriela; Dumitrache, Cristina A.; Maria, Gabriel M.; Vâtcă, Ciprian; Oanţă, Melania; Öllerer, Kinga

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.02.020

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“…The monitoring of atmospheric pollution by using leaves of trees has gained considerable attention in recent years. Due to the low cost of leaves, it has been suggested in the literature that leaves can be used for monitoring air pollution [14,[18][19][20][21][22].…”

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Monitoring of heavy metal pollution by using populus nigra and cedrus libani

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2021

Sigma J Eng Nat Sci - Sigma Müh Fen Bil Derg

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Monitoring of heavy metal pollution by using populus nigra and cedrus libani

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2021

Sigma J Eng Nat Sci - Sigma Müh Fen Bil Derg

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“…The sample size in different counties followed the density of the air quality monitoring stations in the chosen locations, according to the National Network of the Air Quality Monitoring in Romania (www.calitateaer.ro [9])), in order to asses possible pressures induced by the airborne pollution across the heterogeneity of our study area (ŞTEFĂNUŢ & al. [10]).…”

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The assessment of the soil mineralization processes along the traffic corridors from urban and rural areas in Romania

PĂCEŞILĂ,

RADU,

BÎRSAN

et al. 2022

RBL

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The soils of the green areas located near the traffic corridors accumulate different pollutants, especially heavy metals, which have an important impact on the microbial decomposition processes. The extracellular enzymes can be used as an indicator of the metabolic activity of the microorganism communities. Four extracellular enzymes - α and β glucosidase, alkaline phosphatase and alanine aminopeptidase - were assessed in green areas close to the traffic zones in several urban, peri-urban and rural localities in Romania. The data showed that the highest values of enzymatic activities were registered in rural areas. At the same time, the spatial dynamics of the studied enzymes revealed an important variability between the three types of sampled areas, without a clear pattern of their distribution.

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“…Plants are used extensively in environmental biomonitoring of PM pollution [24,25], and tree leaves have been employed in a national system for long-term biomonitoring of heavy metals 2 of 16 in the air. The Romanian Ministry of Environment has implemented this system as a complementary tool to the National Air Quality Monitoring Network [26]. The same authors also incorporated the moss-bag technique into long-term monitoring of heavy metals in the air to further develop the BioMonRo monitoring tool [27].…”

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Is Active Moss Biomonitoring Comparable to Air Filter Standard Sampling?

Świsłowski

Nowak

Ziembik

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Recently, significant attention has been paid to air quality awareness and its impact on human health, especially in urban agglomerations. Many types of dust samplers for air quality monitoring are used by governmental environmental monitoring agencies. However, these techniques are associated with high costs; as a consequence, biological methods such as active moss biomonitoring are being developed. The main disadvantages of such techniques are the lack of standardization of the preparation procedures and the lack of reliable comparisons of results with data from instrumental analyses. Our study aimed to compare the results obtained from active biomonitoring with the use of three moss species: Pleurozium schreberi, Sphagnum fallax and Dicranum polysetum. Samples were exposed via the moss-bag technique to measure the concentrations of analytes (Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg and Pb) which had accumulated among the total suspended particulates (TSP) collected from the filters of a dust collector in the city of Opole (Opole voivodeship, Poland). With regard to the physicochemical and biological traits of the mosses, their assessed lifetime and actual photochemical efficiency (yield) following exposure were meagre, which may have been related to the change of environment and their exposure to pollutants. When comparing the results obtained by the two methods used to monitor air pollution, the biomonitoring method was found to be incompletely consistent with the reference method. Biological monitoring using mosses must be carefully considered depending on the monitoring objectives, the required level of sensitivity and quality of measurement and the type of pollutant.

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Developing a novel warning-informative system as a tool for environmental decision-making based on biomonitoring

Cited by 12 publications

References 30 publications

Monitoring of heavy metal pollution by using populus nigra and cedrus libani

Monitoring of heavy metal pollution by using populus nigra and cedrus libani

The assessment of the soil mineralization processes along the traffic corridors from urban and rural areas in Romania

Is Active Moss Biomonitoring Comparable to Air Filter Standard Sampling?

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