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The Content of Trace Metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn) in Selected Plant Species (Moss Pleurozium Schreberi, Dandelion Taraxacum Officianale, Spruce Picea Abies) along the Road Cracow - Zakopane**
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Korzeniowska, Joanna Panek, Ewa |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | One of anthropogenic sources of metals in the environment is traffic. Motor transport negatively influences the environment deteriorating air quality, polluting the soil and plants, ground waters, and surface waters, taking the land for the road infrastructure and exposing many people on noise above the acceptable level. Nowadays, we know 21 basic substances defined as toxic, and emitted by motor vehicles [1]. They include (among others) the following trace metals: Cd, Cu, Pb, Sb and Zn. Traffic pollutes the environment with different wastes such as: used car shells and tires, exploitation wastes, including oils, electrolytes, cooling liquids and materials used for washing and maintenance of vehicles. Metal deposition, among others, depends on: the amount of emission, physical properties of the suspended particles, meteorological conditions, characteristics of soils and plants, including: plant species, surface of leaves and their morphology [2]. The presence of trace metals in the components of the environment makes the indicator of anthropogenic pressure. Thus, in the monitoring, stress is put on the determination of the level of accumulated metals in soil, plant and animals. The basic method of the monitoring studies is bioindication, including phytoindication. In the studies of phytoindication certain plant species are used, called proper indicators and accumulators, characterised by specific features, related to indication. Many plant species possess the ability to absorb and accumulate potentially toxic substances. Particularly valuable are species possessing special abilities to accumulate a certain type of pollutants – so called phytoaccumulators [3]. |
| Starting Page | 43 |
| Ending Page | 50 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.7494/geom.2012.6.1.43 |
| Volume Number | 6 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://journals.bg.agh.edu.pl/GEOMATICS/2012.6.1/geom.2012.6.1.43.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.baztech-article-AGH8-0014-0011/c/Korzeniowska.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.7494/geom.2012.6.1.43 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
