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Tracing historical changes, degradation, and original sources of airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Jilin Province, China, by Abies holophylla and Pinus tabuliformis needle leaves

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
卷 29, 期 5, 页码 7079-7088

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SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-16176-4

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); Air pollution; Biomonitoring; PAH degradation constants; Abies holophylla; Pinus tabuliformis

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21775134, 22066025]
  2. 111 Project [D18012]

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Plant leaves are interesting candidates for biomonitoring atmospheric pollution due to their wide distribution and availability. This study investigated the content of PAHs in needle samples from two different species and found that the total PAH concentration in needles increased with their age, while degradation rates of PAHs increased with molecular complexity. This research could provide valuable historical environmental information through pine needles biomonitoring.
Due to their wide distribution and availability, plant leaves can be considered interesting candidates as biomonitoring substrates for the evaluation of atmospheric pollution. In addition, some species can also retain historical information, for example, related to environmental pollution, due to their leaf class age. In this study, the content of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Abies holophylla and Pinus tabuliformis needle samples in the function of their class age has been investigated to obtain information regarding the degradation constant for each PAH under investigation (alpha values ranging from 0.173 to 1.870) and to evaluate the possibility to correlate the presence of PAHs in needles with some important pollution environmental factors. Considering air pollutant variables registered in Jilin Province, interesting correlations (at 95% confidence level) have been found between coal consumption per year and anthracene contents in needles, while fluorene, phenanthrene, and anthracene results correlated with coal consumption. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that the total PAH concentration in needles, for both species, increased with their age (from 804 to 3604 ng g(-1) dry weight), showing a general tendency to accumulate these substances through years. PAH degradation rates increased instead with molecular complexity. This study could be considered a first trial to obtain historical environmental information by pine needles biomonitoring.

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