Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 157, Issue 1, Pages 280-286Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.06.038
Keywords
Metals; Accumulation; Ectomycorrhizas; Fruitbodies; Populus tremula
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- Austrian Science Fund [P17012-B06]
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Concentrations of Zn and Cd were measured in fruitbodies of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi and leaves of co-occurring accumulator aspen. Samples were taken on three metal-polluted sites and one control site. Fungal bioconcentration factors (BCF = fruitbody concentration: soil concentration) were calculated on the basis of total metal concentrations in surface soil horizons (BCF(tot)) and NH(4)NO(3)-extractable metal concentrations in mineral soil (BCF(lab)). When plotted on log-log scale, values of BCF decreased linearly with increasing soil metal concentrations. BCF(lab) for both Zn and Cd described the data more closely than BCF(tot). Fungal genera differed in ZnBCF but not in CdBCF. The information on differences between fungi with respect to their predominant occurrence in different soil horizons did not improve relations of BCF with soil metal concentrations. Aspen trees accumulated Zn and Cd to similar concentrations as the ECM fungi. Apparently, the fungi did not act as an effective barrier against aspen metal uptake by retaining the metals. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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