National environmental quality assessment and monitoring of atmospheric heavy metal pollution - A moss bag approach.
Air pollution
Arsenic
Environmental tool
Lead
Moss bag
Journal
Journal of environmental management
ISSN: 1095-8630
Titre abrégé: J Environ Manage
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0401664
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Oct 2019
15 Oct 2019
Historique:
received:
07
01
2019
revised:
28
06
2019
accepted:
30
06
2019
pubmed:
17
7
2019
medline:
26
9
2019
entrez:
17
7
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
As airborne pollution is recognised as the single largest environmental health hazard in Europe, the necessity to develop effective systems for monitoring and reducing the level of air pollutants, becomes imperative. The paper describes a tested and implemented long-term biomonitoring system for airborne heavy metals at a national scale. Moss bags (Hylocomium splendens) were exposed in 142 monitoring stations designated in Romania, and the content of Pb, Cd, Ni and As was quantified using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The results revealed that the accumulation of heavy metals exceeded the established thresholds, marking high pollution levels in 8.8% of samples for As, in 5.63% samples for Cd, in 3.17% samples for Pb, and in 0.35% samples for Ni. The maximum heavy metal concentration was 113.77 mg kg
Identifiants
pubmed: 31310934
pii: S0301-4797(19)30926-0
doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.06.125
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Air Pollutants
0
Metals, Heavy
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
109224Informations de copyright
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