Detection of landscape species as a low-cost biomonitoring study: Cr, Mn, and Zn pollution in an urban air quality

Yayla, Emine Emel; Şevik, Hakan; Işınkaralar, Kaan

doi:10.1007/s10661-022-10356-6

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“…This finding indicates that traffic is an essential source of copper pollutants. Numerous studies show that heavy metals are emitted mainly into the atmosphere from anthropogenic sources such as mining activities, industry, and traffic [32][33][34]. It is emphasized that the most significant heavy metal source, especially in urban areas, is traffic.…”

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Urban Public Spaces, Public Health, and Heavy Metal Pollution Threatening in Ankara City Center: Strategies for Urban Planning

IŞINKARALAR

BAYRAKTAR

2022

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In the last century, worldwide population growth and concentration in urban areas cause many problems, especially in the central areas of metropolitan cities. One of these problems is air pollution it reduces the quality of life of the citizens and threatens public health. Among the components of air pollution, heavy metals are the most dangerous because they accumulate in metabolism, some of them are toxic and poisonous even at low concentrations, and they are deadly for human health at high concentrations. Studies on the determination of air pollution are limited to revealing the current situation and do not offer solutions for urban planning. In this context, the accumulation of copper elements, which is extremely dangerous for public health, in plants located in the city center was investigated by using landscape plants as a tool in the research. Within the scope of the study, the change of copper concentration in five plant species grown in areas with no traffic, less dense, and dense areas were investigated. As a result of the research, the increase in the concentration of copper in the air due to traffic has been revealed statistically. The research emphasizes the relationship between heavy metal pollution, which poses a serious threat to public health, and urban planning, and reveals the basic strategies in terms of urban planning.

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“…Samples prepared in this way were read at appropriate wavelengths in the ICP-OES device. This method is one of the most used methods in heavy metal analysis in plants, and many studies have been carried out using this method in recent years [31,32].…”

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Urban Public Spaces, Public Health, and Heavy Metal Pollution Threatening in Ankara City Center: Strategies for Urban Planning

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BAYRAKTAR

2022

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“…Similarly, the information about the transfer of nutrient elements within the plant after the intake from soil or air is also limited [66][67][68]. Thus, to provide important information, it is necessary to determine the amounts of nutrient elements in soil and to perform comparative evaluations.…”

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Change of Calcium Concentrations in Forest Soils by Plant Species and Soil Depth

Erdem

2022

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One of the most important factors playing role in plant development is the nutrient element content of the soil. Being one of the fundamentally necessary macronutrients for plant nourishment, calcium (Ca) plays an important role in the growth and development of a plant. Thus, even though many studies have been carried out on the change of Ca concentration in agricultural soils, the number of studies examining this subject for forest soils is very limited. In the present study, it was aimed to compare the concentrations of Ca in soil and plant organs for the soils, where different forest trees are grown. Within this scope, leaf, bark, wood, cone, and root samples were collected from Turkish fir, black pine, Scotch pine, and Oriental beech species and soil samples were taken from the surface, mid-deep, and deep soil levels. Then, the Ca concentrations were compared. As a result, it was determined that Ca concentrations statistically significantly vary between leaves, roots, and woods of plants and between mid-deep and deep soils by species (p

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“…It was also reported that the heavy metals, which are necessary as plant nutrition elements, might be harmful to the organisms when at high concentrations. Previous studies emphasized that the heavy metals inhaled into the human body might be more harmful and even lethal [18][19][20][21]. For this reason, it is very important to monitor and reduce the concentrations of heavy metals in the air [22].…”

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Usability of some woody plants in monitoring and reducing the Mn, Zn, Ba, and Sr concentrations in the air

ÇOBANOĞLU¹,

Şevik²,

Özel³

et al. 2022

World J. Adv. Res. Rev.

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The advancements worldwide in the last century made air pollution one of the most important problems threatening human health on a global scale. One of the most harmful components of air pollution is heavy metals. For this reason, monitoring and reducing heavy metal pollution has been one of the main research subjects in recent years. In the present study, the accumulation of Mn, Zn, Ba, and Sr, which were included in the preliminary pollutant list by ATSDR (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) since they pose a significant threat to human health, by plant species and organ was investigated. As a result of the present study, the highest concentrations were found in the leaves. The most useful species to be utilized in monitoring the change of the concentrations of heavy metals examined here in the air and to reduce the level of pollution were found to be Cotoneaster franchetii and Platycladus orientalis.

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Detection of landscape species as a low-cost biomonitoring study: Cr, Mn, and Zn pollution in an urban air quality

Cited by 40 publications

References 53 publications

Urban Public Spaces, Public Health, and Heavy Metal Pollution Threatening in Ankara City Center: Strategies for Urban Planning

Urban Public Spaces, Public Health, and Heavy Metal Pollution Threatening in Ankara City Center: Strategies for Urban Planning

Change of Calcium Concentrations in Forest Soils by Plant Species and Soil Depth

Usability of some woody plants in monitoring and reducing the Mn, Zn, Ba, and Sr concentrations in the air

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