Is Active Moss Biomonitoring Comparable to Air Filter Standard Sampling?

ABSTRACT: Recently, significant attention has been paid to air quality awareness and its impact on human health, especially in urban agglomerations. Many types of dust samplers for air quality monitoring are used by governmental environmental monitoring agencies. However, these techniques are associated with high costs; as a consequence, biological methods such as active moss biomonitoring are being developed. The main disadvantages of such techniques are the lack of standardization of the preparation procedures and the lack of reliable comparisons of results with data from instrumental analyses. Our study aimed to compare the results obtained from active biomonitoring with the use of three moss species: Pleurozium schreberi, Sphagnum fallax and Dicranum polysetum. Samples were

SUBMITTER: Swislowski P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9024558 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature