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Tipo de Documento
Artigo Completo

Título
Guidelines for biomonitoring persistent organic pollutants (POPs), using lichens and aquatic mosses – A review

Participantes na publicação
Sofia Augusto (Author)
Cristina Máguas (Author)
Dep. Biologia Vegetal
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Cristina Branquinho (Author)

Resumo
During the last decades, awareness regarding persistent organic pollutants (POPs), such dioxins and furans (PCDD/Fs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), has become a cutting-edge topic, due to their toxicity, bioaccumulation and persistency in the environment. Monitoring of PCDD/Fs and PAHs in air and water has proven to be insufficient to capture deposition and effects of these compounds in the biota. To overcome this limitation, environmental biomonitoring using lichens and aquatic mosses, have aroused as promising tools. The main aim of this work is to provide a review of: i) factors that influence the interception and accumulation of POPs by lichens; ii) how lichens and aquatic bryophytes can be used to track different pollution sources and; iii) how can these biomonitors contribute to environmental health studies. This review will allow designing a set of guidelines to be followed when using biomonitors to assess environmental POP pollution.


Suporte
Environmental Pollution

Identificadores da Publicação
ISSN - 0269-7491

Editora
Elsevier BV



Identificadores do Documento
DOI - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2013.05.019
URL - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2013.05.019

Identificadores de Qualidade
SCOPUS Q1 (2013) - 1.973 - Pollution

Keywords
Bioindicator Biomonitor Air pollution Human health POP