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Bryophytes and heavy metals: a literature review
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The literature on heavy metals in bryophytes is reviewed, including mechanisms of metal uptake, retention, toxicity and tolerance and interspecies differences in particular are discussed, including the development of extreme tolerance encountered in certain taxa.About:
This article is published in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.The article was published on 1990-09-01. It has received 294 citations till now.read more
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Bioindication capacity of metal pollution of native and transplanted Pleurozium schreberi under various levels of pollution
TL;DR: Results indicate that the native P. schreberi from the more polluted sites accumulated significantly more Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb and Zn than the transplanted moss from the same sites, as compared to the native moss.
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Entrapment of long-distance transported pollen grains by various moss species in coastal Victoria Land, Antarctica.
TL;DR: There is evidence that the Antarctic continent could act as a sink for wind-transported pollen from sub-Antarctic islands or from plants (native or cultivated) in South America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, however, the pollen concentration in air and its entrapment rate on moss result in a very low pollen density in these plants.
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Quantification of transfer of 238U, 226Ra, 232Th, 40K and 137Cs in mosses of a semi-natural ecosystem
TL;DR: The relationship between concentration ratios of radionuclides and physicochemical characteristics of the underlying soil was investigated and the data on concentration ratios obtained will provide a useful addition to the currently used database of transfer parameters, particularly for natural radions.
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D665/D665a INDEX VS. FREQUENCIES AS INDICATORS OF BRYOPHYTERESPONSE TO PHYSICOCHEMICAL GRADIENTS
TL;DR: Results suggest that D665/D665a ratio in aquatic bryophytes may be of value as an indicator of river water pollution.
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Trace Metals in the Environment and Living Organisms: The British Isles as a Case Study
TL;DR: In the British Isles, trace metals play key roles in life - all are toxic above a threshold bioavailability, yet many of them are essential to metabolism at lower doses.
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Ion Exchange in Sphagnum and its Relation to Bog Ecology
TL;DR: The kinetics of cation exchange are consistent with a heterogeneous exchange phase containing regions of high charge density and regions with lower charge density, and at equilibrium the proportions of different cations in the exchange phase are largely explicable by a Donnan distribution.
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Plants and soils as indicators of metals in the air
Gordon T. Goodman,T. M. Roberts +1 more
TL;DR: Metal concentrations downwind of the Swansea urban-industrial complex are found to be significantly greater than the normal background.
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Sorption and retention of heavy metals in the woodland moss Hylocomium splendens (Hebw.) Br. et Sch.
Åke Rühling,Germund Tyler +1 more
TL;DR: The capacity of Hylocomium splendens to sorb heavy metal ions from dilute solutions was studied in this article, and the sorption and retention generally followed the order: Cu, Pb > Ni > Co > Zn, Mn.
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Heavy metal deposition in Scandinavia
Åke Rühling,Germund Tyler +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, maps showing the regional differences in the atmospheric deposition of Pb, Cd, Hg, Cr, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Fe have been prepared for Finland, Norway and Sweden from data obtained by means of moss analysis, a method previously shown to be a sensitive and reliable tool in measuring heavy metal deposition.
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