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Moss Biomonitoring in Former Sovet Union Countries: A Review

Moss Biomonitoring in Former Sovet Union Countries: A Review

Inga Zinicovscaia, Nikita Yushin, Konstantin Vegel, Dmitrii Grozdov
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781799812418|ISBN10: 1799812413|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799812425|EISBN13: 9781799812432
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1241-8.ch024
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Zinicovscaia, Inga, et al. "Moss Biomonitoring in Former Sovet Union Countries: A Review." Handbook of Research on Emerging Developments and Environmental Impacts of Ecological Chemistry, edited by Gheorghe Duca and Ashok Vaseashta, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 511-529. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1241-8.ch024

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Zinicovscaia, I., Yushin, N., Vegel, K., & Grozdov, D. (2020). Moss Biomonitoring in Former Sovet Union Countries: A Review. In G. Duca & A. Vaseashta (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Emerging Developments and Environmental Impacts of Ecological Chemistry (pp. 511-529). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1241-8.ch024

Chicago

Zinicovscaia, Inga, et al. "Moss Biomonitoring in Former Sovet Union Countries: A Review." In Handbook of Research on Emerging Developments and Environmental Impacts of Ecological Chemistry, edited by Gheorghe Duca and Ashok Vaseashta, 511-529. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1241-8.ch024

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Abstract

Air pollution is a worldwide environmental and health issue. Among environmental pollutants, heavy metals are the most dangerous due to their persistence and bioaccumulation in food chain. Assessment of heavy metal deposition using moss biomonitors is a cheap and effective technique, which was successfully applied in different European counties. The present work revises application of passive biomonitoring in former Soviet Union countries: Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine. The air pollution sources in each country were identified. The mean concentration of elements considered as environmental pollutants were compared in order to detect the most polluted countries on the post-Soviet space.

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