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Title: | Heavy metal and nitrogen concentrations in mosses are declining across Europe whilst some "hotspots" remain in 2010 | Authors: | Harmens, H Norris, D A Sharps, K Mills, G Alber, R Aleksiayenak, Y Blum, O Cucu-Man, S-M Dam, M De Temmerman, L Ene, A Fernández, J A Martinez-Abaigar, J Frontasyeva, M Godzik, B Jeran, Z Lazo, P Leblond, S Liiv, S Magnússon, S H Maňkovská, B Karlsson, G Pihl Piispanen, J Poikolainen, J Santamaria, J M Skudnik, M Spiric, Z Stafilov, T Steinnes, E Stihi, C Suchara, I Thöni, L Todoran, R Yurukova, L Zechmeister, H G |
Issue Date: | May-2015 | Journal: | Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) | Abstract: | In recent decades, naturally growing mosses have been used successfully as biomonitors of atmospheric deposition of heavy metals and nitrogen. Since 1990, the European moss survey has been repeated at five-yearly intervals. In 2010, the lowest concentrations of metals and nitrogen in mosses were generally found in northern Europe, whereas the highest concentrations were observed in (south-)eastern Europe for metals and the central belt for nitrogen. Averaged across Europe, since 1990, the median concentration in mosses has declined the most for lead (77%), followed by vanadium (55%), cadmium (51%), chromium (43%), zinc (34%), nickel (33%), iron (27%), arsenic (21%, since 1995), mercury (14%, since 1995) and copper (11%). Between 2005 and 2010, the decline ranged from 6% for copper to 36% for lead; for nitrogen the decline was 5%. Despite the Europe-wide decline, no changes or increases have been observed between 2005 and 2010 in some (regions of) countries. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/15959 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.01.036 |
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