Download or read book Biomonitoring Air Pollutants with Plants written by W.J. Manning and published by Springer. This book was released on 1980-12-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plants as Biomonitors written by Bernd A. Markert and published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 1993 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trace Elements in Terrestrial Plants written by Roberto Bargagli and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unique collection of case studies, this book provides detailed coverage of metal biomonitoring and bioremediation in terrestrial ecosystems using higher plants, lichens, mosses and fungi. Emphasis is placed on application rather than theory. It gives an exhaustive account of the most reliable procedures for sampling, sample preparation, analytical determinations and interpretation of data. Using an ecophysiological approach, metal uptake by plants and metal transfer along terrestrial food chains are examined.
Download or read book A Review of Terrestrial Plants as Biomonitors written by TG. Pfleeger and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrestrial plants have been used as monitors of environmental pollutants since at least the beginning of this century. They have recently received increased attention in response to the need for ecological assessments at hazardous waste sites and for monitoring pesticide damage to nontarget plants. Terrestrial plants are potential candidates for biomonitoring because they are continuously exposed to the air and have lipophilic cuticles. The dissemination of heavy metal and sulfur dioxide into the environment from smelters has been effectively monitored through the use of several different sensitive plant species including lichens and mosses. Visible foliar injury on Bell W-3 tobacco was developed as an indicator of ozone pollution. The Tradescantia stamen hair system has been successfully used for a number of years as a monitor for chemical mutagenesis for air and water systems. However, plants have rarely been used as an indicator for chronic exposure to organic chemical pollutants. A test using Arabidopsis was developed for chronic root exposure to both metal and organic toxicants. A chronic shoot exposure test using a short life cycle Brassica was developed for monitoring aerial deposition of spray, fog, and gases. These tests are amenable for use under natural settings but have not been implemented in the field. Preliminary work has begun on using terrestrial plants as biomonitors in detecting nontarget foliar injury from sulfonylurea herbicides.
Download or read book Plants for Toxicity Assessment written by Wun-cheng Wang and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1990 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment was held in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 19-20, 1989. This publication contains 29 refereed papers divided into six groups: Regulatory Perspectives, Comparative Toxicology, Plants and Xenobiotic Uptake, Plants and Air Pollution, General Phytotoxicology, and New Approaches. The 2nd Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment was held in San Francisco, California, on April 23-24, 1990. This publication contains 35 refereed papers divided into six groups: Regulatory Perspectives, Applications of Plant Bioassays/Photosynthesis, Xenobiotic Uptake by Plants, General Phytotoxicology, Biochemical and Genetic Applications, and New Approaches.
Download or read book Plants as Biomonitors of Indoor Air Quality written by Marsha Elizabeth Ritter Jones and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Use of Native and Cultivated Plants as Bioindicators and Biomonitors of Pollution Damage written by JA. Laurence and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants are among the most sensitive organisms to pollutants, often responding with distinct, easy-to-recognize symptoms from exposure to specific environmental contaminants. This characteristic makes plants useful as bioindicators and biomonitors of pollutants. Using plants as bioindicators offers several advantages over physical/chemical monitoring systems: plants are easy to grow and maintain and inexpensive to deploy at a great number of sites; plants integrate pollutant exposure with other environmental factors to provide a biological assessment of exposure; and plant samples may be archived for retrospective analysis. Systems in use include indicator gardens, lichen transplants, plant growth and exposure benches, standard grass cultures, field survey of indigenous or cultivated species, and chemical analysis of plant tissue. A case study illustrating the use of bioindicators to assess the level of fluoride pollution in the Rhône valley in Switzerland is presented.
Download or read book Plants for Environmental Studies written by Wuncheng (Woodrow) Wang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the problems of using plants in environmental studies is finding current information. Because plants play a key role in environmental studies, from the greenhouse effect to environmental toxicological studies, information is widely scattered over many different fields and in many different sources. Plants for Environmental Studies solves that problem with a single, comprehensive source of information on the many ways plants are used in environmental studies. Written by experts from around the world and edited by a team of prominent environmental specialists, this book is the only source of complete information on environmental impacts, mutation, statistical analyses, relationships between plants and water, algae, plants in ecological risk assessment, compound accumulations, and more. Encompassing algae and vascular plants in both aquatic and terrestrial environments, this book contains a diverse collection of laboratory and in situ studies, methods, and procedures using plants to evaluate air, water, wastewater, sediment, and soil.
Download or read book Air Pollution and Plant Biotechnology written by K. Omasa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air pollution is ubiquitous in industrialized societies, causing a host of environmental problems. It is thus essential to monitor and reduce pollution levels. A number of plant species already are being exploited as detectors (for phytomonitoring) and as scavengers (for phytoremediation) of air pollutants. With advances in biotechnology, it is now feasible to modify plants for a wider range of phytomonitoring and phytoremediation applications. Air Pollution and Plant Biotechnology presents recent results in this field, including plant responses during phytomonitoring, pollution-resistant plant species, imaging diagnosis of plant responses, and the use of novel transgenic plants, along with reviews of basic plant physiology and biochemistry where appropriate. Researchers and students working in plant biotechnology and the environmental sciences or considering new areas of investigation will find this volume a valuable reference.
Download or read book Bioindicators Biomonitors written by Bernd A. Markert and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Download or read book In Situ Biomonitoring of a Polluted Environment by Wild and Crop Plant Species written by Karol Mičieta and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original method of testing for pollution in the environment by means of wild and crop plant species is described, with practical examples explained in detail within this book.This original method was developed by authors and proved correct for industrial complexes like nickel plant dumps, a smelting plant and an aluminium factory as well as city environments experiencing a heavy traffic impact.For a demonstration of general usefulness, a collaborative study with Kuwait University was accomplished to show the impact of the first Gulf War to the environment.The study of radioactive contamination in the vicinity of the Jaslovské Bohunice nuclear power plant was finished in cooperation with the University of Wien, Austria.Promising results from the retrospective biomonitoring of polluted environments by means of pollen grains for herbal samples are also presented, detailing the situation at a chosen locality up to one hundred years prior.A list of wild and crop plant species as bioindicators is presented for practical use.This original method is extended by special chapters describing other authors parallel plant test of phytotoxicity and mutagenicity and practical examples of remediation of heavily polluted sites.In conclusion, the authors are underlying the remarkable ability of nature to recover from all anthropogenic interventions thanks to the mechanisms of auto-regulation, adaptation and resistance.As this book is based on the thirty years of the authors experiences, it covers the period between the years of 1966-2018, with 380 references from this field of research.
Download or read book Responses of Plants to Air Pollution written by Giacomo Lorenzini and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biological Monitoring written by Hermann Ellenberg and published by Friedr Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft. This book was released on 1991 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plants as biomonitors of atmospheric pollution written by R J. Pakeman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organic Xenobiotics and Plants written by Peter Schröder and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural and agro-ecosystems are frequently exposed to natural or synthetic substances, which, while they have no direct nutritional value or significance in metabolism, may negatively affect plant functioning. These, xenobiotics, may originate from both natural (fires, volcano eruptions, soil or rock erosion, biodegradation) and anthropogenic (air and soil pollution, herbicides) sources. And, while affected plants have only a limited number of possibilities for avoiding accumulation of these compounds, they do exhibit several enzymatic reactions for detoxification including oxidation, reduction, hydrolysis and conjugation reactions. In agro-ecosystems in particular these mechanisms have great significance in relation to herbicide detoxification and tolerance. In this volume an international group of experts present an overview of the nature and distribution of organic xenobiotics, including their uptake, effects on plant functioning and detoxification mechanisms. The particular significance of glutathione S-transferases in bio-indication and bio-monitoring, and in the detoxification of volatile organic air pollutants and herbicides is evaluated, and their potential significance in phytoremediation and bioaccumulation will be discussed. This volume will be of interest to a wide audience, from graduate students to senior researchers in a wide range of disciplines including plant ecology, plant biochemistry, agriculture and environmental management. It will also be of practical interest to environmentalists, policy makers and resource managers.
Download or read book Biomonitoring General and Applied Aspects on Regional and Global Scales written by Conradin A. Burga and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of 14 articles dealing with different aspects of biomonitoring and their relation to questions of global change. The first part concerns general aspects of biomonitoring. The second part gives examples of applied biomonitoring in Germany and Switzerland (changes in species composition, phenologies, vegetation restoration, changes in soil conditions, and heavy metal concentrations). The third part deals with climate-related monitoring studies of arctic-alpine and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere (mountain peaks and timberline ecotones of the Alps, spread of exotic evergreen broad-leaved plants, phytomass and carbon balance in Svalbard).
Download or read book Plants as Biomonitors of Atmospheric Pollution written by R. J. Pakeman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
