Transplanted Lichen Pseudovernia furfuracea as a Multi-Tracer Monitoring Tool Near a Solid Waste Incinerator in Italy: Assessment of Airborne Incinerator-Related Pollutants
| Autor: | Maurizio Guidotti, Malgorzata Owczarek, Carmela Protano, Luca Fantozzi, Matteo Vitali |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Municipal solid waste
Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins Lichens Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis biomonitoring tool Air pollution persistent organic pollutants Incineration lichen Toxicology medicine.disease_cause Solid Waste Hazardous Substances TRACER Metals Heavy Biomonitoring medicine Ecotoxicology toxicology and mutagenesis Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons heavy metals Lichen Pollutant Air Pollutants Chemistry health General Medicine Pollution transplant technique Italy Environmental chemistry biomonitoring health toxicology and mutagenesis pollution toxicology Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology. 95(5) |
| ISSN: | 1432-0800 |
| Popis: | The ability of a transplanted lichen, Pseudovernia (P.) furfuracea, to act as a multi-tracer biomonitoring tool for As, Cd, Ni, Pb, 12 PAHs, 17 polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and 27 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) was evaluated at six areas of varying risk (high, medium, negligible) of pollutant fallout from a municipal waste incinerator in central Italy. Transplanted P. furfuracea proved to be an useful tool to biomonitor PCDDs/Fs and PCBs. Concentrations of As, heavy metals, PAHs, PCDDs/Fs resulted similar for all monitored stations. Small differences in total PCBs (4378 and 4631 pg/g dw vs 3298, 4123, 3676 and 4022 pg/g dw) and dioxin-like PCBs (1235 and 1265 pg/g dw vs 794, 1069, 1106 and 1188 pg/g dw) were observed. Air concentrations of monitored compounds appear to be more related to general air pollution than point emissions from the incinerator. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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