| Title | CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF AIR QUALITY IN A HIGHLY INDUSTRIALIZED SITE (TARANTO CITY, ITALY), BY BIOMONITORING TECHNIQUES |
| Abstract | The city of Taranto (Southern Italy), close between large industrial plants is considered among the Italian
cities most at risk of pollution, due of increased release of toxic substances in the environment. Monitoring of air
quality, therefore, represents a problem of primary importance.
Traditional techniques are based on the use of monitoring stations and physical chemical methods.
The use of bioindicators is of considerable interest because it allows measurements on a large scale, relatively
quickly at low cost. In particular, the use of mosses has gone increasingly spreading in monitoring high-risk areas for
the environmental capacity to absorb atmospheric pollutants and provide integrated responses on the air quality,
although there are critical issues regarding different storage capacity of the species used and the influence of
environmental factors.
Mosses are used to study pollution in the surroundings of particular industrial plants (e.g., thermal power
plants, steel works, metal smelters, cement works etc.) and their use in metal pollution monitoring was of significant
importance, and subject of several, though limited, reviews (Fernandez et al., 2007).
These organisms are used as bioindicators and bioaccomulators. In the later case, the most commonly used
biomonitoring techniques are of two types: active, taking advantage of carpets of mosses transplanted or using moss
bags and passive ones that rely on indigenous/native peoples.
The first allow to obtain information concerning the effects of pollutants on the ground assessing the air
quality as a whole, even in areas lacking or deficient in mosses. The majority of investigations have utilised epiphytic
mosses as Hypnum cupressiforme, Hylocomium splendents and Pleurozium schereberi; these were widely used in
Europe due their abundant (Gerold et al., 2000; Oniawa, 2001).
Among the pollutants, "heavy metals" are of particular interest (Schilling and Lehman, 2002) whose presence
in particulate atmospheric is the result of complex interactions between natural and anthropogenic factors.
This paper illustrates the use of mosses in the monitoring of air quality in a highly contaminated industrial
site.The obtained results, using mosses as biomonitors of trace metals, were compared with the data of atmospheric
distribution of particulate matter (ISPESL, 2006). |
| Source | Environmental Engineering and Management Journal (Online) 12 (s11), pp. 245–248 |
| Keywords | metalsmoss bagsbiomonitoring techniques |
| Journal | Environmental Engineering and Management Journal (Online) |
| Editor | Ecozone., Iasi, Romania |
| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Articolo in rivista |
| Authors | Micaela Buonocore?, Cristina Annicchiarico, Nicola Cardellicchio, Antonella Di Leo, Santina Giandomenico, Lucia Spada |
| Text | 349096 2013 metals moss bags biomonitoring techniques CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF AIR QUALITY IN A HIGHLY INDUSTRIALIZED SITE TARANTO CITY, ITALY , BY BIOMONITORING TECHNIQUES Micaela Buonocore , Cristina Annicchiarico, Nicola Cardellicchio, Antonella Di Leo, Santina Giandomenico, Lucia Spada CNR Institute for Marine Coastal Environment, via Roma 3, 74123 Taranto, Italy The city of Taranto Southern Italy , close between large industrial plants is considered among the Italian cities most at risk of pollution, due of increased release of toxic substances in the environment. Monitoring of air quality, therefore, represents a problem of primary importance. Traditional techniques are based on the use of monitoring stations and physical chemical methods. The use of bioindicators is of considerable interest because it allows measurements on a large scale, relatively quickly at low cost. In particular, the use of mosses has gone increasingly spreading in monitoring high risk areas for the environmental capacity to absorb atmospheric pollutants and provide integrated responses on the air quality, although there are critical issues regarding different storage capacity of the species used and the influence of environmental factors. Mosses are used to study pollution in the surroundings of particular industrial plants e.g., thermal power plants, steel works, metal smelters, cement works etc. and their use in metal pollution monitoring was of significant importance, and subject of several, though limited, reviews Fernandez et al., 2007 . These organisms are used as bioindicators and bioaccomulators. In the later case, the most commonly used biomonitoring techniques are of two types active, taking advantage of carpets of mosses transplanted or using moss bags and passive ones that rely on indigenous/native peoples. The first allow to obtain information concerning the effects of pollutants on the ground assessing the air quality as a whole, even in areas lacking or deficient in mosses. The majority of investigations have utilised epiphytic mosses as Hypnum cupressiforme, Hylocomium splendents and Pleurozium schereberi; these were widely used in Europe due their abundant Gerold et al., 2000; Oniawa, 2001 . Among the pollutants, heavy metals are of particular interest Schilling and Lehman, 2002 whose presence in particulate atmospheric is the result of complex interactions between natural and anthropogenic factors. This paper illustrates the use of mosses in the monitoring of air quality in a highly contaminated industrial site.The obtained results, using mosses as biomonitors of trace metals, were compared with the data of atmospheric distribution of particulate matter ISPESL, 2006 . 12 Published version Contributionto the knowledge of air quality in a highly industrialized site Taranto city,Italy , by monitoring techniques 333.pdf Articolo in rivista Ecozone. 1843 3707 Environmental Engineering and Management Journal Online Environmental Engineering and Management Journal Online Environ. Eng. Manag. J. Online Environmental Engineering and Management Journal. Online cristina.annicchiarico ANNICCHIARICO CRISTINA antonella.dileo DI LEO ANTONELLA santina.giandomenico GIANDOMENICO SANTINA lucia.spada SPADA LUCIA nicola.cardellicchio CARDELLICCHIO NICOLA |
