Pleurozium schreberi as bioindicator of mercury pollution in heavily industrialized region

Samecka-Cymerman, Aleksandra; Kosior, Grzegorz; Kolon, Krzysztof; Zawadzki, Krzysztof; Rudecki, Andrzej; Kempers, Alexander J.

doi:10.1007/s10874-013-9256-7

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“…Mosses are a useful tool in monitoring environment quality and identifying pollution sources [37]. The selected species has been used as bioindicator in active biomonitoring studies [38,39] and is capable of accumulating mainly copper and remove its ions from solutions [40,41]. Our biomonitoring (field) studies did not confirm large accumulation of this metal, however, this may be due to the fact that concentrations of heavy metals accumulated in mosses depended on the time and place of samples exposition [42].…”

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Influence of Heavy Metal Concentration on Chlorophyll Content in Pleurozium schreberi Mosses

Świsłowski

Rajfur

Wacławek

2020

Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S

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The aim of biomonitoring is assessment of environment condition. Biomonitoring studies with the use of mosses focus mainly on analytes accumulation and determining elements’ concentrations in the study area. It is often forgotten that a bioindicator should be alive during biomonitoring studies (which can be determined by, e.g., analysis of chlorophyll content). The objective of the carried out research was an assessment of the influence of selected heavy metals concentration: Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb accumulated by Pleurozium schreberi mosses during 3-month exposition within active biomonitoring, on their vitality, assessed by an analysis of a and b chlorophyll concentrations. The studies were also carried out in laboratory conditions, where the content of the dyes was determined with the aid of a UV-Vis spectrophotometer, in mosses reacting with solutions of various concentrations of the analysed metals. The content of elements in mosses after exposition and in solutions prior and after sorption were determined with the use of atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) in a flame atomiser. After the carried out studies it was determined that mosses, during 12-week long exposition, accumulated heavy metals, which did not clearly influence the changes in chlorophyll content. The carried out studies prove that heavy metals are not the only and determining factor, which influences chlorophyll content in mosses as well as the bioindicator’s vitality in the conditions of environmental stress.

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Influence of Heavy Metal Concentration on Chlorophyll Content in Pleurozium schreberi Mosses

Świsłowski

Rajfur

Wacławek

2020

Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S

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“…Concentrations of the heavy metals Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb and Hg, accumulated by Pleurozium schreberi mosses samples differ from each other within and between study periods of a given year. The concentration of individual elements is influenced by the moss species used and their accumulation capacity, exposure time and other environmental factors (interactions among elements, temperature, humidity) [49][50][51]. The changes in concentrations between the two study periods are also due to the global lockdown situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic restrictions.…”

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Air Quality during New Year’s Eve: A Biomonitoring Study with Moss

2021

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Mosses are one of the best bioindicators in the assessment of atmospheric aerosol pollution by heavy metals. Studies using mosses allow both short- and long-term air quality monitoring. The increasing contamination of the environment (including air) is causing a search for new, cheap and effective methods of monitoring its condition. Once such method is the use of mosses in active biomonitoring. The aim of the study was to assess the atmospheric aerosol pollution with selected heavy metals (Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg and Pb) from the smoke of fireworks used during New Year’s Eve in the years 2019/2020 and 2020/2021. In studies a biomonitoring moss-bag method with moss Pleurozium schreberi (Willd. ex Brid.) Mitt. genus Pleurozium was used. The research was conducted in the town Prószków (5 km in south direction from Opole, opolskie voivodship, Poland). The moss was exposed 14 days before 31 December (from 17 to 30 of December), on New Year’s Eve (31 December and 1 January) and 2 weeks after the New Year (from 2–15 January). Higher concentrations of analysed elements were determined in samples exposed during New Year’s Eve. Increases in concentrations were demonstrated by analysis of the Relative Accumulation Factor (RAF). The results indicate that the use of fireworks during New Year’s Eve causes an increase in air pollution with heavy metals. In addition, it was shown that the COVID-19 induced restrictions during New Year’s Eve 2020 resulted in a reduction of heavy metal content in moss samples and thus in lower atmospheric aerosol pollution with these analytes. The study confirmed moss usefulness in monitoring of atmospheric aerosol pollution from point sources.

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“…Samecka-cymerman. et al, (2010) [20] reported mean concentration of cadmium to the tune of 90µg/g. in Taxus baccata leaves from Poland.…”

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Phytochemical screening and ionomic analysis of selected RET medicinal plants of eastern Himalayan region

Timsina,

Upadhyay,

Muddarsu

et al. 2023

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The study was conducted at Dept. of Horticulture, Sikkim University, Gangtok during 2017-2018 with an objective to study phytochemical and ionomic analysis of RET medicinal plants of Himalayan region. In the present study on phytochemical and ionomic analysis of RET medicinal plants, the stem and leaf samples of Swertia chirata, Clematix bouchiana, Gingko biloba and Valeriana jatamansi were collected from Kalimpong, W.B. The selected medicinal plants have been recommended as remedies for innumerable ailments in traditional medicinal system. The phytochemicals are thought to be largely responsible for the protective health benefits and are naturally occurring compounds in the plants. Among phytochemicals, screening was done for alkaloids, flavonoids, tannins, terpenoids and saponins. Study of trace elements in (RET) medicinal plants is of prime importance and ICP-MS was used for ionomic analysis. The presence of (Ba,

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Pleurozium schreberi as bioindicator of mercury pollution in heavily industrialized region

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Influence of Heavy Metal Concentration on Chlorophyll Content in Pleurozium schreberi Mosses

Influence of Heavy Metal Concentration on Chlorophyll Content in Pleurozium schreberi Mosses

Air Quality during New Year’s Eve: A Biomonitoring Study with Moss

Phytochemical screening and ionomic analysis of selected RET medicinal plants of eastern Himalayan region

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