Study of the air quality in industrial areas of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain) by active biomonitoring with Pseudoscleropodium purum

Ares, A.; Fernández, J.Á.; Aboal, J.R.; Carballeira, A.

doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2010.08.019

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“…The holders were mounted perpendicular to the lampposts, which are commonly distributed uniformly across entire urban areas, which enables researchers to cover any microenvironment of interest, e.g., roads, residential/housing areas, parks, etc. Lampposts were chosen for moss bag exposure in other biomonitoring studies as well (e.g., Orliński, 2002;Ares et al, 2011;Tretiach et al, 2011). The holders with moss bags were placed at the representative height of 3 − 4 m (Ares et al, 2012;Vuković et al, 2013) in open spaces far from tree canopies, roofs and electric cables.…”

Section: Moss Sampling Moss Bag Preparation Exposure and Post-exposmentioning

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

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Urošević

Goryainova

et al. 2015

Science of The Total Environment

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“…However, only a few active biomonitoring surveys have been performed on a large scale with extensive sampling grids over urban environments, e.g., across Girona and Salt, Spain (Rivera et al, 2011), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (Ares et al, 2011), and Warsaw, Poland (Orliński, 2002;Dmuchowski and Bytnerowicz, 2009).…”

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

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Urošević

Goryainova

et al. 2015

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Past research using moss to map cadmium found that model residuals were spatially auto-correlated (Ares et al, 2011;Hasselbach et al, 2005). To account for this spatial dependence among residuals, we considered three possible spatial-covariance structures-Gaussian, spherical, or exponential-and chose the best-fitting model using Akaike information criterion.…”

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“…The authors faced a relatively simple situation-little background cadmium and only one suspected source. Similarly, Ares et al (2011) were investigating pollution from a single refinery. It is encouraging that we were able to identify unpermitted sources of cadmium in a more complex urban environment with 124 permitted sources of atmospheric cadmium and dozens of possible unpermitted sources, as the public-health impact of air pollution is greatest in areas with high population density.…”

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“…To be of the most benefit to air quality regulators and to identify pollution sources with a high level of confidence, maps must account for spatial autocorrelation and sampling must be sufficiently intensive to capture small-scale variability in metals deposition. One exception was Ares et al (2011), who used 50 moss bags of Pseudoscleropodium purum and spatially-explicit regression to map six heavy metals in an industrial area around an oil refinery in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. They found very high levels of nickel and vanadium near the refinery.…”

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Using an epiphytic moss to identify previously unknown sources of atmospheric cadmium pollution

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Jovan

Gatziolis

et al. 2016

Science of The Total Environment

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L.; Amacher, Michael C.; and Monleon, Vicente J., "Using an epiphytic moss to identify previously unknown sources of atmospheric cadmium pollution" (2016 H I G H L I G H T S• Bio-indicators are a valid method for measuring atmospheric pollutants • We used moss to map atmospheric cadmium in Portland, Oregon • Using a spatial linear model, we identified two stained-glass manufacturers as the major sources of atmospheric cadmium in Portland • After both companies suspended cadmium use, atmospheric levels declined precipitously Urban networks of air-quality monitors are often too widely spaced to identify sources of air pollutants, especially if they do not disperse far from emission sources. The objectives of this study were to test the use of moss bioindicators to develop a fine-scale map of atmospherically-derived cadmium and to identify the sources of cadmium in a complex urban setting. We collected 346 samples of the moss Orthotrichum lyellii from deciduous trees in December, 2013 using a modified randomized grid-based sampling strategy across Portland, Oregon. We estimated a spatial linear model of moss cadmium levels and predicted cadmium on a 50 m grid across the city. Cadmium levels in moss were positively correlated with proximity to two stained-glass manufacturers, proximity to the Oregon-Washington border, and percent industrial land in a 500 m buffer, and negatively correlated with percent residential land in a 500 m buffer. The maps showed very high concentrations of cadmium around the two stainedglass manufacturers, neither of which were known to environmental regulators as cadmium emitters. In addition, in response to our findings, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality placed an instrumental monitor 120 m from the larger stained-glass manufacturer in October, 2015. The monthly average atmospheric cadmium G R A P H I C A L A B S T R A C T a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Contents lists available at ScienceDirectScience of the Total Environment j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w . e l s e v i e r . c o m / l o c a t e / s c i t o t e n v This document is a U.S. government work and is not subject to copyright in the United States.concentration was 29.4 ng/m 3 , which is 49 times higher than Oregon's benchmark of 0.6 ng/m 3 , and high enough to pose a health risk from even short-term exposure. Both stained-glass manufacturers voluntarily stopped using cadmium after the monitoring results were made public, and the monthly average cadmium levels precipitously dropped to 1.1 ng/m 3 for stained-glass manufacturer #1 and 0.67 ng/m 3 for stained-glass manufacturer #2.Published by Elsevier B.V.

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Accumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the devitalized aquatic moss Fontinalis antipyretica: From laboratory to field conditions

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This work aims to test the feasibility of a Fontinalis antipyretica devitalized moss clone to uptake and accumulate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from surface waters. To assess the capability of the devitalized clone to accumulate PAHs, in the laboratory, moss was placed in water and spiked with increasing concentrations of 16 PAHs, and under field conditions, the moss was transplanted to 22 sites of Galicia (Spain) rivers. In general, PAH concentrations in water samples were lower than the maximum allowable concentrations from Directive 2013/39/EU, so the sampling sites did not show water PAH contamination. The exponential accumulation kinetic in the laboratory trial highlights a good capability of the devitalized moss clone to accumulate total PAHs. In field experiments, the hydrogeological conditions and the low emission sources caused low concentrations of PAHs in the water system and, consequently, in the transplants, although an enrichment can be observed for several PAHs. Overall, the devitalized clone of F. antipyretica can uptake and accumulate PAHs in water and may be useful in bioremediation strategies.

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Study of the air quality in industrial areas of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain) by active biomonitoring with Pseudoscleropodium purum

Cited by 45 publications

References 32 publications

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

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

Using an epiphytic moss to identify previously unknown sources of atmospheric cadmium pollution

Accumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the devitalized aquatic moss Fontinalis antipyretica: From laboratory to field conditions

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