Global ambient air quality monitoring: Can mosses help? A systematic meta-analysis of literature about passive moss biomonitoring.

ABSTRACT: Surging incidents of air quality-related public health hazards, and environmental degradation, have prompted the global authorities to seek newer avenues of air quality monitoring, especially in developing economies, where the situation appears most alarming besides difficulties around 'adequate' deployment of air quality sensors. In the present narrative, we adopt a systematic review methodology (PRISMA, Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) around recent global literature (2002-2022), around moss-based passive biomonitoring approaches which might offer the regulatory authorities a complementary means to fill 'gaps' in existing air quality records. Following the 4-phased search procedure under PRISMA, total of 123 documents were selected for review. A

SUBMITTER: Chaudhuri S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9970857 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature