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Bryophytes and heavy metals: a literature review

Germund Tyler
- 01 Sep 1990 - 
- Vol. 104, Iss: 1, pp 231-253
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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.
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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.

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Bryophytes as Green Brain: Unique and Indispensable Small Creature

TL;DR: Bryophytes influences a number of ecosystem processes and have been used in different fields, like: horticulture, bio-monitoring, forest dweller, antimicrobial activities, etc and are being increasingly recognized around the world for multifarious applications.

Bryophytes in Protected Territories of Plovdiv City (Bulgaria): Preliminary Species List and First Data of Air Pollution Monitoring

TL;DR: In this article, preliminary results of survey on bryophyte diversity in protected areas in the city of Plovdiv and biomonitoring urban air pollution with moss Hypnum cupressiforme were presented.
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The toxic metal stress in two mosses of different growth forms under axenic and controlled conditions

TL;DR: In this article, two different growth forms of Bryophytes, acrocarpous Atrichum undulatum and pleurocarpous Hypnum cupressiforme, were evaluated in vitro under axenic in vitro fully controlled laboratory conditions, and the results showed that reactions to stress are both species and metal-specific.
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Moss bags as biomonitors of heavy metal deposition in Navarra, Spain

TL;DR: In this paper, the atmospheric deposition of heavy metals Cu, Cd, Pb, Zn, Fe and Mn was biomonitored by placing moss bags (Sphagnum sp.) in different sampling locations throughout Navarra (Spain).
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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, +1 more
- 04 Jun 1971 - 
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, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1970 - 
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

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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