Bio-Monitoring of Metal(loid)s Pollution in Dry Riverbeds Affected by Mining Activity.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to evaluate the most abundant native plants that could be used as a bio-monitor of metal(loid) concentration in dry riverbeds affected by mining activities. Three plants species and their respective rhizospheric soils were sampled from the El Beal (Piptatherum miliaceum, 15 samples), La Carrasquilla (Foeniculum vulgare, 10 samples), and Ponce (Dittrichia viscosa, 12 samples) dry riverbeds from the mining district of Cartegena-La Unión (SE Spain). There is scanty bibliography of the capacity of these species to be used as bio-monitors in the dry riverbeds. Plants categorized as a bio-monitor were established according to the bioaccumulation factor (BF), mobility ratio (MR), and linear correlations between metal(loid) concentrations in plants ti

SUBMITTER: Cuevas J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10650150 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature