Biomonitoring of PAHs by using Quercus ilex leaves: Source diagnostic and toxicity assessment

Terrestrial mosses as biomonitors of atmospheric POPs pollution: A review

“…Although the equilibrium between the atmosphere and vegetation depends on ambient temperature, Simonich and Hites (1994) suggested that most of the PAHs absorbed by vegetation at the end of the growing season are incorporated into the soil and permanently removed from the atmosphere. In addition to mosses, other main bioaccumulators used to date for monitoring atmospheric PAH deposition are lichens (Augusto et al, 2010;Blasco et al, 2011;Guidotti et al, 2003;Migaszewski et al, 2002;Shukla and Upreti, 2009), leaves from deciduous broad-leave trees (Howsam et al, 2000;Jouraeva et al, 2002;Tian et al, 2008;Wang et al, 2008) or evergreen broad-leave trees (De Nicola et al, 2011;Müller et al, 2001;Prajapati and Tripathi, 2008) and conifer needles (Amigo, 2011;Augusto, 2010;Brorström-Lundén and Löfgren, 1998;Holoubek et al, 2007;Klánová et al, 2009;Lehndorff and Schwark, 2009a,b;Migaszewski et al, 2002;Piccardo et al, 2005;Tian et al, 2008). In higher plants, uptake of POPs from the air will either be in gaseous form via the stomata or via deposition to the cuticle and subsequent absorption of the lipophylic, organic compound (Paterson et al, 1990).…”

Optimization of pressurized liquid extraction using a multivariate chemometric approach and comparison of solid-phase extraction cleanup steps for the determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in mosses

“…For this reason, plants are widely used as airborne pollution biomonitors in urban and rural environments [8] . The most common are herbaceous species [9] , deciduous tree leaves [10], persistent tree leaves [11], coniferous needles [4,12], tree bark [13] ,lichens [14,15] and mosses [4,15,16].…”

PAHs accumulation on leaves of six evergreen urban shrubs: A field experiment

“…In the first, pre-existing plants growing in urban and periurban areas, along roadsides, public parks or private gardens were sampled (Lodovici et al, 1998(Lodovici et al, , 2003Howsam et al, 2000;Lehndorff and Schwark, 2004;Singh and Verma, 2007;Wang et al, 2008;Lehndorff and Schwark, 2009;De Nicola et al, 2011b;Papa et al, 2012;Noth et al, 2013;Terzaghi et al, 2013). In the second scenario, the plants were sampled in the surroundings of disused or still working industrial sites (Sharma and Tripathi, 2009;Rodriguez et al, 2010Rodriguez et al, , 2012Wang et al, 2012).…”