Determination of lead, cadmium and copper in roadside soil and plants in Elazig, Turkey

Bakırdere, Sezgin; Yaman, Mehmet

doi:10.1007/s10661-007-9695-1

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“…Yet in the 1970s, Lagerwerff and Specht (1970) found that concentration of Cd, Ni, Pb, and Zn in roadside soil and grass samples from several locations decreased with distance from traffic and with depth in the soil profile. Similar results were more recently obtained by Naszradi et al (2004) and Bakirdere and Yaman (2008). Furthermore, the presence of buildings and trees as barriers for the pollutants was found to remarkably reduce road-induced pollution in the nearby gardens (Säumel et al 2012).…”

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“…A weak point of previous research is the absence of appropriate control when comparing urban to rural horticultural production. Most of the available cases addressed contaminations in urban (Bakirdere and Yaman 2008;Bretzel and Calderisi 2006;Khan et al 2008;Vittori et al 2009) or rural (Peris et al 2007) cases only. On the other hand, when a comparison of urban versus rural horticultural good is claimed (Säumel et al 2012), no reference to the growing conditions and provenance of the rural product is given.…”

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Heavy metal accumulation in vegetables grown in urban gardens

Antisari¹,

Orsini²,

Marchetti³

et al. 2015

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

133

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Urban agriculture is increasingly popular for social and economical benefits. However, edible crops grown in cities can be contaminated by airborne pollutants, thus leading to serious health risks. Therefore, we need a better understanding of contamination risks of urban cultivation to define safe practices. Here we study heavy metal risk in horticultural crops grown in urban gardens of Bologna, Italy. We investigated the effect of proximity to different pollution sources such as roads and railways, and the effect of the growing system used, that is soil versus soilless cultivation. We compared heavy metal concentration in urban and rural crops. We focused on surface deposition and tissue accumulation of pollutants during 3 years. Results show that in the city, crops near the road were polluted by heavy metals, with up to 160 mg per kilogram of dry weight for lettuce and 210 mg/kg for basil. The highest Cd accumulation of up to 1.2 mg/kg was found in rural tomato. Soilless planting systems enabled a reduction of heavy metal accumulation in plant tissue, of up to −71 % for rosemary leaves.

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Heavy metal accumulation in vegetables grown in urban gardens

Antisari¹,

Orsini²,

Marchetti³

et al. 2015

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

133

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“…We found in this study that the height of the road bed was significantly related to the PN value (Table 7); it is possible that a high road bed contributes to a wider range of enrichment of traffic-related metals with the same kinetic energy. The wind speed can also account for differences in the PN value at different sampling sites (Table 7; Bakirdere and Yaman, 2008). The highest road bed and strongest winds at site TTH may therefore explain the greatest enrichment in traffic-related metals in roadside soils.…”

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Identification of traffic-related metals and the effects of different environments on their enrichment in roadside soils along the Qinghai–Tibet highway

Zhang

Wang

Zhang

et al. 2015

Science of The Total Environment

137

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• Cr, Zn, Cu, As, Cd, and Pb in soils along the highway are related to the traffic.• There are three distribution patterns of the traffic-related metals in soils.• Regional differences had significant relationship with the enrichment levels.• Cd was the prior metal and the TTH was the key area for soil environment monitoring. The road transportation could affect roadside soils environment detrimentally, including heavy metal enrichment. In order to identify and evaluate the enrichment of heavy metals resulted from road transportation on the Tibetan Plateau, the 11 heavy metals (V, Cr, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Cd, Rb, Pb and Tl) in the topsoil (0-10 cm depth) from four sites along the Qinghai-Tibet highway were discussed in this study. Our results indicate that heavy metals such as Cr, Cu, Zn, As, Cd and Pb are related to road transportation. The content of most of these heavy metals in roadside soils decreased exponentially with the distance from the road, as did some of the Nemero Synthesis Indexes (PN values). The contamination factor for the traffic-related metals ranged from 0.56 (no pollution) to 5.67 (considerable pollution) and the Nemero Synthesis Indexes of these heavy metals ranged from 0.80 (no pollution) to 4.49 (severe pollution). Cd was of priority concern as it had the highest contamination factor. The highest PN value for these traffic-related heavy metals was found in soils at site TTH (alpine steppe). Although transportation contributed to the high contents of these traffic-related metals in roadside environments, regional differences such as wind and the terrain also had significant relationship with their enrichment in these roadside soils. The roadside distance at which there is a potential risk to livestock and wildlife from the contamination of soils by heavy metals should be determined scientifically along the Qinghai-Tibet highway, based on the different natural environments found in the region. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o

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“…Cu is an essential element that became toxic to both humans and animals when its concentration exceeds the safe limits. [15] The current studies [10,[15][16][17][18] showed that anti-knock agents used in automotive fuel [17,18] could contaminate the air and soils by their toxic emissions containing Pb, Cd, Zn, Ni. Also the worn out tyres, the oils leakage, the corrosion of batteries and metallic parts such as radiators increased the accumulation of these metals in roadside soil [19,20] Herein we presented a study concerning the concentrations Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn and As in soils along the Sun Highway in Romania which connects Bucharest to Constanta.…”

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Heavy Metal Contamination of Roadside Soil Near Sun Highway in Romania

Anghelache¹,

Kim²,

Cuciureanu³

et al. 2016

Simi 2016

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In order to assess the impact of car emissions on the soil, studies are required to monitor the concentation heavy metals from roadside soils. In this paper, we report an extensive survey of the roadside soils contamination with heavy metal along the Sun Highway (A2) which connects Bucharest to Constanta. The contents of heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn, As) were assessed by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The car pollution was also studied to link it with the concentrations and distributions of heavy metals in the roadside soils.A comparison between the degree of contamination obtained in the set points was made. Moreover, the impact of the metal concentration value was debated.

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Determination of lead, cadmium and copper in roadside soil and plants in Elazig, Turkey

Cited by 127 publications

References 32 publications

Heavy metal accumulation in vegetables grown in urban gardens

Heavy metal accumulation in vegetables grown in urban gardens

Identification of traffic-related metals and the effects of different environments on their enrichment in roadside soils along the Qinghai–Tibet highway

Heavy Metal Contamination of Roadside Soil Near Sun Highway in Romania

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