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Title

Plants as biomonitors : indicators for heavy metals in the terrestrial environment / edited by Bernd Markert.

Publication

Weinheim ; New York : VCH, [1993], ©1993.

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Additional Authors

Markert, B. A. (Bernd A.)

Description

xxxiii, 644 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Plants > Effect of heavy metals on
• Plant indicators
• Heavy metals > Environmental aspects
• Environmental monitoring

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. General Aspects of Biomonitoring Heavy Metals by Plants / R. Wittig -- 2. Chemical Properties of Metals and the Process of Bioaccumulation in Terrestrial Plants / B. Streit and W. Stumm -- 3. Instrumental Analysis of Plants / B. Markert -- 4. Geobotanical and Biogeochemical Prospecting for Heavy Metal Deposits in Europe and Africa / W. H. O. Ernst -- 5. Geobotanical and Biogeochemical Methods for Detecting Mineralization and Pollution from Heavy Metals in Oceania, Asia, and The Americas / R. R. Brooks -- 6. Higher Plants as Indicators of Uranium Occurrence in Soil / L. Steubing and J. Haneke -- 7. Plant Distributions and Soil Chemistry at a Serpentine/Non-Serpentine Boundary in California / B. Streit, R. J. Hobbs and S. Streit -- 8. Serpentine Endemics as Biological Indicators of Soil Elemental Concentrations / M. Arianoutsou, P. W. Rundel and W. L. Berry -- 9. Lichens as Biomonitors for Heavy Metal Pollution / J. Garty.
• 10. Lichens as Bioindicators of Heavy Metal Pollution: A Case Study at La Spezia (N Italy) / P. L. Nimis, M. Castello and M. Perotti -- 11. Multi-Residue Analysis with Passive Biomonitoring: A New Approach for Volatile Multi-Element Contents, Heavy Metals and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Lichens in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein / R. Herzig -- 12. Bioindication of Road Motor Traffic Caused Heavy Metal Pollution by Lichen Transplants / Z. Tuba and Z. Csintalan -- 13. Monitoring of Heavy Metals in Soils by Higher Fungi / I. Wondratschek and U. Roder -- 14. Applicability of Fungi to the Monitoring of Environmental Pollution by Heavy Metals / V. Mejstrik and A. Lepsova -- 15. Some Aspects of Biomonitoring of Air Pollutants Using Mosses, as Illustrated by the 1976 Norwegian Survey / E. Steinnes -- 16. Mosses as Biomonitors of Heavy Metal Contamination within Urban Areas / F. Bruning and K. H. Kreeb.
• 17. The Use of Moss Transplantation Technique for Bioindication of Heavy Metal Pollution / Z. Tuba and Z. Csintalan -- 18. The Effects of Heavy Metal Stress on Higher Plants and their Use as Biomonitors / J. A. C. Verkleij -- 19. Large-Scale Screening of Heavy Metal Burdens in Higher Plants / G. Wagner -- 20. Monitoring of Heavy Metal Pollution by Taraxacum officinale / R. Djingova and I. Kuleff -- 21. Plant Leaves and Lichens as Biomonitors of Natural or Anthropogenic Emissions of Mercury / R. Bargagli -- 22. Trace Metals in Legumes and Monocotyledons and their Suitability for the Assessment of Soil Contamination / A. Kabata-Pendias, M. Piotrowska and S. Dudka -- 23. Heavy Metal Accumulation by Ruderal and Cultivated Plants in a Heavily Polluted District of Budapest / M. Kovacs, G. Turcsanyi, K. Penksza, L. Kaszab and P. Szoke -- 24. Heavy Metals in the Vegetation as Indicators for the Environmental Pollution in the Area of the Former USSR / F. Ya. Rovinsky, L. V. Burtseva and T. B. Chicheva.
• 25. Heavy Metal Accumulation by Plants Growing alongside the Motor Roads: A Case Study from Turkey / M. A. Otzturk and I. Turkan -- 26. Passive Monitoring of Airborne Pollutants, Particularly Trace Metals, with Tree Bark / A. Walkenhorst, J. Hagemeyer and S. W. Breckle -- 27. Monitoring Trace Metal Pollution with Tree Rings: A Critical Reassessment / J. Hagemeyer -- 28. Do Phytopathogenic Arthropods Alter Metal Levels of Bioindicator Plants / T. Reijonen and P. Nuorteva -- 29. Seasonal Variations of Foliar Metal Content in Three Fruit Tree Species / M. Deu and K. H. Kreeb -- 30. Changes of Cadmium Concentration in the Xylem Sap of Fagus sylvatica L. with Increasing Altitude / R. Heimerich -- 31. Effects of Altitude on Heavy Metal Accumulation in Soils of Beech Forest Ecosystems / H. Jochheim, V. Glavac, H. Koenies and R. Heimerich -- 32. Concentrations of Selected Heavy Metals in Different Compartments of a Mountain Rain Forest Ecosystem in Sri Lanka / R. Jayasekera.

ISBN

• 3527300015 (VCH, Weinheim)
• 1560812729 :

LCCN

92034620

OCLC

• 26851294
• ocm26851294

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries