The use of vegetation, bees, and snails as important tools for the biomonitoring of atmospheric pollution—a review
- 4 February 2019
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
- Vol. 26 (10), 9391-9408
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-04388-8
Abstract
The continuous discharge of diverse chemical products in the environment is nowadays of great concern to the whole world as some of them persist in the environment leading to serious diseases. Several sampling techniques have been used for the characterization of this chemical pollution, although biomonitoring using natural samplers has recently become the technique of choice in this field due to its efficiency, specificity, and low cost. In fact, several living organisms known as biomonitors could accumulate the well-known persistent environmental pollutants allowing their monitoring in the environment. In this work, a review on environmental biomonitoring is presented. The main sampling techniques used for monitoring environmental pollutants are first reported, followed by an overview on well-known natural species used as passive samplers and known as biomonitors. These species include conifer needles, lichen, mosses, bees and their byproducts, and snails, and were widely used in recent research as reliable monitors for environmental pollution.Keywords
Funding Information
- Azm and Saade Association
- Universit? Libanaise
- Universit? de Strasbourg
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