using biological tissues. Lichens, mosses, and trees are the most commonly used organisms, with ... cies in a Hg mining environment. Sampling included leaves and barks from Platanus hispanica and ... The first monitoring systems for Hg in air took advantage of the ability of …

the use of neutron activation analysis in the biomonitoring of trace element deposition in the opole province By Andrzej Kłos, Maria Wacławek, and Zbigniew ZIEMBIK Trace elements in native and transplanted Fontinalis antipyretica and Platyhypnidium riparioides from rivers polluted by uranium mining h i g h l i g h t s

Mosses have specific tolerance to pollutants, and are widely used for air pollution monitoring, water pollution monitoring, and heavy-metals pollution monitoring (Cymerman et al., 2006, Rui and Teresa, 2005). However, studies have not explored the use of mosses to indicate heavy metal changes in soil from manganese mining areas, and the ...

By using a moss biomonitoring method, moss samples near the ferronickel smelter plant were found to have a higher content of nickel, cobalt, and chromium (Bačeva et al., 2012). Particularly, the ...

Monitoring 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 and 100 000 (at 80% full economic cost) that must be delivered …

assessing and monitoring the environmental impact of mining activities, using the most advanced Earth observation techniques, and in particular hyperspectral remote-sensing sensors. During an airborne survey six mining areas, five within Europe and one in Greenland have been scanned by HyMap, a hyperspectral scanner build by the Australian company

Aquatic mosses and sediments were monitored along T opolnitsa River Basin (Bulgaria), copper-producing and mining. region. Six mosses were …

The use of aquatic mosses to monitor heavy metals was investigated in the River Etherow, near Manchester, Great Britain. The river was visited on five occasions during 1979 and 1980 and samples of ...

Biomonitoring air pollution using plants, especially the lower ones such as mosses and lichens are being supported by also IAEA in many countries within a coordinated research project (Bleise and Smodis, 2000).Lichens are symbiotic organisms composed of fungi (mycobionts) and green algae or cyanobacteria (photobionts) (Bargagli, 1998).

and retain a longer history of exposure. Monitoring using moss has been successfully implemented over decades in terrestrial and aquatic environments leading to a wide range of applications. Mosses are also one of the most robust and resilient plant species persisting in even the harshest environments …

mining areas of Ebonyi State using moss samples collected from the mining sites and their environs as biomonitors. Study Area . Ebonyi State is located in the Southeastern region of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The state lies between latitude 5. o. 43'30" and 6. o. 46'30'' North of the equator and between longitudes 7. o. 36'00 ...

This paper discusses biomonitoring using mosses as a technique used in programs for investigating trace-element air pollution. Emphasis is given to mosses as the dominant plant species used in biomonitoring surveys. Biomonitoring is regarded as a means to assess traceelement concentrations in aerosols. Current literature is reviewed for moss biomonitors and their physiological process ...

In Turkey there is a few survey using mosses and lichens for radiation monitoring. These studies are focused only on 134 Cs and 137 Cs fallout in the Black Sea Area (Köse et al., 1994; Topcuoğlu et al., 1993; Varinlioğlu et al., 1994). In the present study our principal objective is to investigate the effect of a CPP on environmental ...

This article reviews the literature on the use of mosses for monitoring atmospheric metal pollution. It discusses the nature of mosses, the mechanisms for moss uptake of metals from the air and wet precipitation, the various forms in which mosses are used for this purpose, and cases in which mosses have been used for monitoring local hot spots of pollution, and regional patterns of metal ...

This study identified specific emission sources of atmospheric pollution in the vicinity of two secondary iron and steel smelting factories in Osun state, southwestern Nigeria, using transplanted biomonitors. A total of 120 biomonitors consisting of lichen and moss were grown under a controlled environment and later transplanted to the surroundings of each factory for monitoring of air ...

Emrironmental Pollution (Series B) 4 (1982) 69-84 LICHENS AND MOSSES AS MONITORS OF INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH URANIUM MINING IN NORTHERN ONTARIO, CANADA--PART 1 : FIELD PROCEDURES, CHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND INTER- SPECIES COMPARISONS L. J. R. BOILEAU, P.J. BECKETT, P. LAVOIE & D. H. S. RICHARDSON* …

The concentrations of six elements (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn) were measured in moss (Haplocladium microphyllum) samples collected from 55 urban sites in the summer of 2013. The objectives were to evaluate variations in the heavy metal concentrations in mosses across Xuzhou, and to develop maps of metal pollution for this region. Despite great variations in the concentrations of the …