National environmental quality assessment and monitoring of atmospheric heavy metal pollution - A moss bag approach

Ştefănuţ, S.; Öllerer, Kinga; Manole, Anca; Ion, Mihaela C.; Constantin, Marian; Banciu, Cristian; Maria, Gabriel M.; Florescu, Larisa I.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.06.125

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“…In some studies, this has already been done but only for single datasets (e.g. Barandovski et al 2015;Rybak 2015;Ștefănuț et al 2019). Here, cluster analyses have been performed with the mass fractions measured in moss bags and spider webs, and the resulting dendrograms are contrasted with each other (Fig.…”

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Comparison of Spider Web and Moss Bag Biomonitoring to Detect Sources of Airborne Trace Elements

Laaten

Merten

Tümpling

et al. 2020

Water Air Soil Pollut

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Atmospheric particulate matter has become a major issue in urban areas from both a health and an environmental perspective. In this context, biomonitoring methods are a potential complement to classical monitoring methods like impactor samplers, being spatially limited due to higher costs. Monitoring using spider webs is compared with the more common moss bag technique in this study, focusing on mass fractions and ratios of elements and the applicability for source identification. Spider webs and moss bags with Hypnum cupressiforme were sampled at the same 15 locations with different types of traffic in the city of Jena, Germany. In the samples, mass fractions of 35 elements, mainly trace metals, were determined using inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) after aqua regia digestion. Significantly higher mass fractions in spider webs than in moss bags were found, even after a much shorter exposure period, and could not be ascribed completely to a diluting effect by the biological material in the samples. Different mechanisms of particle retention by the two materials are therefore assumed. More significant correlations between elements have been found for the spider web dataset. Those patterns allow for an identification of different sources of particulate matter (e.g. geogenic dust, brake wear), while correlations between elements in the moss bags show a rather general anthropogenic influence. Therefore, it is recommended to use spider webs for the short-term detection of local sources while moss bag biomonitoring is a good tool to show a broader, long-term anthropogenic influence.

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Section: Cluster Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison of Spider Web and Moss Bag Biomonitoring to Detect Sources of Airborne Trace Elements

Laaten

Merten

Tümpling

et al. 2020

Water Air Soil Pollut

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“…The environment is continuously exposed to various contaminants from natural and man-made sources. The discharge of these contaminants deriving from anthropic sources remains an undue trend in urbanization and industrialization processes in many regions of the world, so that the presence of these contaminants in the environment is associated with several negative effects on human health and ecosystems (ȘTEFĂNUȚ et al, 2019;WU et al, 2016). Thereby, awareness of this situation has driven changes in the way we manage resources, design and use technology, and make decisions in society (HADDAWAY et al, 2018).…”

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Bryophytes in removal of environmental contaminants: Review and bibliometric analysis

Torres¹,

Rocha²,

Rodrigues³

2023

Development and Its Applications in Scientific Knowledge

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Bryophytes, especially mosses, have received growing attention because of their environmental applications, such as biosorption and phytoremediation. In general, this group is known for its sensitivity to environmental changes and the presence of pollutants such as metals, metalloids, persistent organic pollutants (POP), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), components that are harmful to the environment and human health. Considering that bryophytes are cosmopolitan plants, the development of approaches employing them has great potential for use in different locations around the world. Given this, the present review seeks to evaluate the main aspects related to the environmental application of bryophytes in the removal of contaminants through biosorption and phytoremediation. For this purpose, the VOSviewer software was used in the elaboration of bibliometric maps, using information obtained from the Web of Science platform. The search related to the application of mosses in phytoremediation found 174 publications, the search related to the application of mosses in biosorption obtained 140 results. Of this total, it was observed that most studies were developed from 2005 onwards for both research areas, 2020 being the year with the largest number of studies using bryophytes in phytoremediation (n = 17), thus demonstrating that use this group is in growing development and has valuable application potential in the fields of biosorption and phytoremediation.

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“…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]. In turn, the combined use of the moss-bag technique and emission inventories appears to be an effective approach for quantifying pollutants, and could be a part of a project to develop and improve air quality modelling [28].…”

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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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National environmental quality assessment and monitoring of atmospheric heavy metal pollution - A moss bag approach

Cited by 25 publications

References 43 publications

Comparison of Spider Web and Moss Bag Biomonitoring to Detect Sources of Airborne Trace Elements

Comparison of Spider Web and Moss Bag Biomonitoring to Detect Sources of Airborne Trace Elements

Bryophytes in removal of environmental contaminants: Review and bibliometric analysis

Is Active Moss Biomonitoring Comparable to Air Filter Standard Sampling?

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