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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 81, Issue 3, Pages 321-326Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.07.029
Keywords
Bioindication; Heavy metal; Pleurozium schreberi; Pollution; Upper Silesia; Transplant
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During a period of 90 d assays were carried out with the moss Pleurozium schreberi transplanted from an uncontaminated control site to 27 sites selected in one of the most polluted regions of Upper Silesia (Poland). The native mosses of this species were collected from the polluted sites Concentrations of Cd, Cr. Cu, Pb and Zn were determined in P schreberi and in the soil of all of the sites The sites were divided into more and less polluted ones. The obtained results indicate that the native P scliiebeii from the more polluted sites accumulated significantly more Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb and Zn than the transplanted moss from the same sites. The transplanted P schreberi from the less polluted sites accumulated significantly more Cr, Pb, Zn significantly less Cu and comparable amounts of Cd, as compared to the native moss The selection of native versus transplant P schreberi as a bioindicator depends on the level of pollution (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved
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