Luanchuan is rich in molybdenum resources, and mining activities are frequent, but over-mining can cause serious metal pollution to the local environment. To explore the degree of metal pollution caused by mining activities, the content characteristics and spatial distribution of metals in mining areas were studied by …
The thesis consists of regional forest condition studies, using different biomonitors. Heavy metal deposition was investigated in 1985–2000 on the basis of the heavy metal concentrations (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, Ni, Pb, V, Zn) in mosses in Finland. A comparison on the suitability of mosses, epiphytic lichens and pine bark as biomonitors of heavy …
The aim of study was to evaluate the physiological condition of Pleurozium schreberi moss species subjected to continuous exposure for a year, using the moss-bag method, under variable environmental conditions, including atmospheric aerosol contaminated by selected analytes: Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg, Pb determined by flame atomic …
The mining industry is known for valuable minerals all over the world and the way to get minerals is by mining below the surface. The production, productivity, and safety of underground mine environments are affected by the environmental factors of the mines. Mining in underground areas is at high risk with high accident rates due to …
The best biomonitor of these pollutants was found to be the moss P. schreberi, which confirms previous short-term studies and offers the possibility that this species can be widely used for PAH monitoring in …
Various methods have been developed to monitor environmental quality, including biomonitoring using lichen. In this paper, a total of 143 previous stu…
The results of this study demonstrated that monitoring in different seasons and regions should be considered when biomonitoring atmospheric heavy metal pollution using moss bags in urban environments.
Microplastics (plastic particles <5 mm) were first identified in the environment during the 1970s and have since become ubiquitous across every environmental compartment. However, few studies have focused on atmospheric microplastics, and even fewer have used biological monitoring to assess their …
Biomonitoring using moss is a well-developed technique employed in many parts of the world to assess the concentrations of trace elements in the atmosphere and their potential sources.
It reduces the time-frame spent in monitoring and the results are reliable. Several types of research have been undertaken on the spatial and temporal trends in air pollution using mosses.
In the present study, we used active moss monitoring with non-indigenous mosses to monitor several volcanoes for trace element emissions. Active moss monitoring has been introduced by Goodman and Roberts (1971) and was adapted by Little and Martin (1974) using moss bags.
A quick, cheap and easy way to investigate the state of the environment is to use organisms-biomonitors that indicate the level of environmental pollution. The study aimed to assess air pollution in an urban area using three moss species: Sphagnum fallax, Pleurozium schreberi and Dicranum polysetum.
In China, there are no networks monitoring atmospheric contamination of trace elements in mosses at the cross-regional or national scale. In this study, we selected thirty remote mountains in China to investigate the atmospheric contamination of trace elements through moss monitoring.
Detection of HM contents in mosses is an effective method to monitor atmospheric and environmental quality. The spatial distribution of HM content in mosses is metal specific and may reflect local changes in atmospheric HM deposition.
The three species of mosses provided valuable information on the contamination of Al, Fe, Mn, Pb and Zn in the urban area of the city of Loja, and therefore can be used in future air quality monitoring programs over time in tropical cities.
Moss is a low-cost way of mapping air pollution and has the potential to revolutionize the enforcement of environmental regulations. Using spatial modeling and high-intensity sampling, major emissions sources of cadmium can be identified within a complex urban environment.
HoweverMonitoring Mining Environments Using Mosses. Home / Monitoring Mining Environments Using Mosses NERC JeS open date 1 June 2017 Closing date for outline proposals 16 00 on 25 July 2017 NERC is inviting proposals under this programme for public engagement consortium and capacitybuilding projects costing between 50 000 …
The approach of using moss bags was tested on site in several countries. The created biotool ′mossphere′ has clear competitive advantages over alternative methods of monitoring. It is cheaper, has lower environmental impacts and can monitor numerous pollutants using the same device.
Long-term monitoring measurements in indoor environments are missing to a large extent due to a lack of simple to operate measuring devices. Mosses proved well as biomonitors in hundreds of studies. Nevertheless, indoor use has been extremely scarce.
Climate change is affecting the global Hg cycle through the melting of sea-ice in coastal Polar Regions, and modifying Hg sequestration in mountain ecosystems. Despite limitations, large-scale monitoring of Hg with mosses and lichens may be used as a tool to evaluate the impact of global processes in remote ecosystems.
Historically, mining companies have seen environmental performance (which requires monitoring and compliance metrics) as a cost base or a simple overhead which needs to be minimised. However, this is slowly changing. "More local and regional communities are starting to place social and environmental demands on mine sites …
The use of biological indicators of environmental quality is an alternative method of monitoring ecosystem pollution. Various groups of contaminants, including organic ones, can be measured in environmental samples. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have not yet been determined by the moss bag technique. This …
One monitoring station is insufficient to characterize the high spatial variation of traffic-related heavy metals within cities. We tested moss bags ( Hylocomium splendens ), deployed in a dense network, for the monitoring of metals in outdoor air and characterized metals' long-term spatial distribution and its determinants in Girona, Spain.
In order to assess whether nitrogen (N) loads in mosses reflect different land uses, 143 sites in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Weser-Ems Region and the Euro Region Nissa were sampled between 2000 and 2005. The data were analysed statistically with available surface information on land use and forest conditions. N bioaccumulation in …
Biomonitoring in indoor environments is a recent application, and so far, indoor air quality (IAQ) has been investigated only in a few cases using photosynthesising biomonitors. On the whole, 22 studies have been selected and reviewed, being specifically focused on the assessment of IAQ using biomonitors, such as lichens (9 papers), …
Bioindicator species effectively indicate the condition of the environment because of their moderate tolerance to environmental variability (Figure 1). In contrast, rare species (or species ...
This research investigates heavy metal pollution around one of the most important mining areas in Turkey, the Murgul mining, by means of analyzing moss and soil samples collected in the neighborhood of the copper mining at different distances.
ABSTRACT Carpet-forming moss species are useful tools for monitoring the atmospheric deposition of pollutants like metals, organic compounds, nitrogen, and more recently, microplastics. Even with a dense sampling scheme, moss biomonitoring could extend the environmental study to national and/or continental scales. Moss species …
This investigation indicates that the studied aquatic mosses reflect part of the pollutant loadings released in the past in the Erzgebirge area of which remnants are still present in the environment.
The mosses have been widely used as bioindicators to investigate pollution and changes of heavy metals in different countries and regions. For a better understanding of the environmental changes in the past 40 years in Shanghai, one of the largest cities in the world, we studied the spatial and temporal changes of five heavy metal depositions in …
