Accumulation Capacities of Particulate Matter in an Acrocarpous and a Pleurocarpous Moss Exposed at Three Differently Polluted Sites (Industrial, Urban and Rural)

• Published in: Water, air, and soil pollution Vol. 212; no. 1-4; pp. 205 - 217
• Main Authors: Fabure, J, Meyer, C, Denayer, F, Gaudry, A, Gilbert, D, Bernard, N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands 01-10-2010; Springer Netherlands; Springer; Springer Nature B.V; Springer Verlag
• Subjects: Aerosols; Air pollution; Airborne particulates; Aluminum; Applied sciences; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Bryophyta; Cadmium; Ceratodon purpureus; Chromium; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Copper; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecology, environment; Environment; Environmental monitoring; Exact sciences and technology; Exposure; Heavy metal content; Hydrogeology; Indicator organisms; Industrial pollution; Iron; Lead; Lead (metal); Life Sciences; Mass spectrometry; Mass spectroscopy; Metals; Morphology; Moss; Mosses; Outdoor air quality; Particulate matter; Physiology; Pollution; Pseudoscleropodium purum; Rural; Soil Science & Conservation; Studies; Titanium; Trace elements; Traffic; Water Quality/Water Pollution; Zinc; France; Active monitoring; Moss; Metal trace element; Arsenic; Zerovalent metal; Iron; Urban area; Active detection; Lead; Rural area; Copper; Cadmium; Musci; Arsenates; Bryophyta; Antimony; Biological indicator; Ceratodon purpureus; Atmospheric dust; Zinc; Heavy metal; Carcinogen; Trace element; ICP mass spectroscopy; Surveillance; Aerosols; Chromium; Air pollution; Poison; Industrial area; Pseudoscleropodium purum; Manganese
• ISSN: 0049-6979; 1573-2932
• DOI: 10.1007/s11270-010-0333-0

The aim of this study was to compare the capacity of two morphologically different moss species to accumulate elements when exposed to three different types of air pollution (rural, urban and industrial). Transplants of Pseudoscleropodium purum and Ceratodon purpureus were exposed for 6 months, and the concentrations of 18 elements (Al, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Cu, Zn, As, Mo, Cd, Sn, Sb, Ba, La, Pb and Bi) in the mosses samples were analysed by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. On the whole, the metals were accumulated by mosses, and this accumulation was correlated with concentrations in the atmospheric particles. Whereas P. purum is to be preferred for Al, Cu, Zn and Fe monitoring, C. purpureus was most efficient at accumulating Mo, Ti, V, As, Sn, La and Pb. In both species, a phenomenon of saturation was observed during the exposure at the most contaminated site (industrial).