期刊
MINERALS
卷 11, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/min11080812
关键词
biomonitoring; potentially toxic elements; spider web; PM; continuous particulate monitor
资金
- Excellent Science program of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- National Centre for Research and Development [03DW/0001/18]
Spider web biomonitoring shows potential in monitoring potentially toxic elements, with results similar to those of continuous particulate monitoring (CPM). This new monitoring method has the possibility to become a commonly used tool in biomonitoring.
Air pollution is monitored mainly in urban or industrial areas, even if it is known that in rural ones, low emission can significantly worsen air quality. Hence, cheap and easily accessible methods of monitoring are needed. Recently, spider webs biomonitoring is getting popular, however, there is no information about its comparison with active methods. In this study, PTEs accumulated on spider webs were compared with results from continuous particulate monitor (CPM). Generally, higher potentially toxic elements concentrations were noted in spider web, with exception in the case of Zn. Zn may be present rather in smaller fractions, hence it needs more time for accumulation on spider web while it is easily collected by CPM. Higher concentrations of other elements on spider webs may result from formation of aggregates which could not be reported in PM10 sampling (CPM). What is more, the order of the most and the least accumulated elements were similar and the percentage share of studied elements was coherent in most cases, proving that this new tool prospers to become commonly used in biomonitoring. Additionally, to identify possible sources of pollution air backward trajectories and trajectory frequencies for Kotorz were prepared based on the HYSPLIT model.
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