Monitoring of Traffic-Related Pollution in a Province of Central Italy with Transplanted Lichen Pseudovernia furfuracea

Guidotti, Maurizio; Stella, Daniela; Dominici, C.; Blasi, Gianfranco; Owczarek, Malgorzata; Vitali, Matteo; Protano, Carmela

doi:10.1007/s00128-009-9792-7

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“…It has been reported that the fruticose lichens absorb the low molecular weight POPs better, most likely due to their high surface area to volume ratio, whilst the foliose lichens preferentially absorb the higher molecular weight organic pollutants [34,45,46,47]. Despite these differences, it has been found that similar POP profiles have emerged from studies, where 2-to 4-ringed PAHs are primarily observed in PAH studies with lichens [36,37,38,42,43,44,48,49,50] and the PCDD/F profiles show a tendency towards TeCDD/PeCDD and PeCDF domination [39,41,46,51]. Blasco et al [34] investigated the behavior of different lichen species under the same conditions with regard to their abilities to accumulate PAHs.…”

Section: Biomonitoring Of Organic Air Pollutants Using Lichensmentioning

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“…Whereas Guidotti et al [44,49] used cyclohexane as the solvent for ultrasound assisted extraction, combining only 2 extractions, Domeno et al [50] extracted a 0.2 g lichen sample using portions of 15 mL dichloromethane each in four subsequent extractions. A study in which a novel ultrasonic assisted extraction technique for lichens was developed by Domeno and Blasco [50], found that hexane is the solvent which extracts most PAHs efficiently and the new DSASE technique has been popular in numerous [34,36,37,68] studies since [34,42,68].…”

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Lichens as biomonitors for organic air pollutants

Wat

Forbes

2015

TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry

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Lichens are useful biomonitors for semi-volatile organic air pollutants, particularly polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), as a result of their ability to respond to air pollutants at different levels, their slow growth rate, longevity and their ability to indicate the presence and concentrations of these pollutants. Consequently there has been a recent global trend in environmental analytical research to utilize lichens in this manner, where Soxhlet and ultrasonic assisted extraction are the most common analyte extraction techniques. A wide range of total PAH concentrations have been determined in lichens from different environments, although phenanthrene, fluoranthene, naphthalene and pyrene tend to dominate the PAH profiles, with higher 2-and 3-ring PAH concentrations than 6-ring compound concentrations. In order to facilitate inter-study comparisons, the development of a reproducible, sensitive analytical method for organic pollutants in lichens is needed.

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Lichens as biomonitors for organic air pollutants

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Forbes

2015

TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry

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“…Lichens have been well studied as a biomonitoring tool for air pollution [9][10][11][12][13]. The lichens absorb mineral nutrients and trace elements, including metals from dry and wet atmospheric deposition, due to the lack of a protective cuticle and a vascular root system [14,15].…”

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Heavy Metal Behavior in Lichen-Mine Waste Interactions at an Abandoned Mine Site in Southwest Japan

Sueoka

Sakakibara

Sera

2015

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Abstract:The lichen, Stereocaulon exutum Nylander, occurring in a contaminated abandoned mine site was investigated to clarify (1) the behavior of heavy metals and As during the slag weathering processes mediated by the lichen; and (2) the distribution of these elements in the lichen thallus on slag. The heavy metals and As in the slag are dissolved from their original phases during the weathering process by lichen substances (organic acids) and hypha penetration, in addition to non-biological weathering. The dissolved elements are absorbed into the lichen thallus. Some of these dissolved elements are distributed in the cells of the hyphae. The others are distributed on the surface of the hyphae as formless particles and show lateral distribution inside the cortex of the thallus. The Cu and Zn concentrations in the thalli are positively correlated with the concentrations in the corresponding substrata and a positive intercept in the regression curve obtained using a linear function. These chemical characteristics make this lichen a good biomarker for Cu and Zn contamination of the substrata of the lichen. Therefore, the present study supposes that Stereocaulon exutum has a possible practical application in biomonitoring or risk assessment of heavy metal pollution at abandoned mine sites.

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“…Many studies have used the technique of lichen transplantation to monitor air pollution, and shortterm transplantations may be an easy and economical method to monitor airborne pollutants (Canas et al, 1997). In Turkey, a large number of pollution-monitoring studies that have used biological and chemical methods have shown the ability of lichens to absorb elements directly from the air and accumulate them in their tissues (Cansaran-Duman et al, 2009, Guidotti et al, 2009Cansaran-Duman, 2011;Aslan et al, 2004Aslan et al, , 2010Aslan et al, , 2011.…”

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Application of molecular markers to detect DNA damage caused by environmental pollutants in lichen species

Cansaran-Duman¹,

Altunkaynak²,

Aslan³

et al. 2015

Genet. Mol. Res.

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ABSTRACT. Pseudevernia furfuracea L. (Zopf), Peltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf, Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm., and Usnea longissima Ach. lichen species were used as bioindicators to assess the genotoxicity of air pollutants. In the present study, we examined significant environmetal pollutants and investigate how changes may lead to damage in DNA structure using RAPD markers. In the study area (Erzurum, Turkey), poor-quality lignite, which generates a large amount of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particle matter, is used for domestic heating, and vehicles also contribute to air pollution. Control lichen samples were collected far from large urban and industrial settlements and transplanted to four polluted sites for 4, 8, or 12 months. The total soluble protein content of the examined four lichen species did not significantly change with exposure time (P < 0.05). The four lichen samples exposed to the pollutants for 8 months had the highest ratio of DNA changes. The ratio of band differences (2015) in P. praetextata was higher than that in the other three lichen species, possibly because it has broad leaves that accumulated more pollutants. The average incidences of polymorphism were 64.14, 54.58, 65.76, and 43.06% for P. furfuracea, P. praetextata, L. pulmonaria, and U. longissima, respectively. The genomic template stability (GTS) significantly decreased following exposure to pollutants. GTS ratios revealed that the highest value (98.36%) belonged to U. longissima samples from Site 1 (10 m) after 4 months of exposure, and the lowest values belonged to P. praetextata (73.58%) from Site 3 (100 m) after 8 months of exposure. Based on our findings, we recommend the use of P. praetextata as an indicator of genotoxicity.

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Monitoring of Traffic-Related Pollution in a Province of Central Italy with Transplanted Lichen Pseudovernia furfuracea

Cited by 49 publications

References 15 publications

Lichens as biomonitors for organic air pollutants

Lichens as biomonitors for organic air pollutants

Heavy Metal Behavior in Lichen-Mine Waste Interactions at an Abandoned Mine Site in Southwest Japan

Application of molecular markers to detect DNA damage caused by environmental pollutants in lichen species

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