Monitoring heavy metal pollution by aquatic plants

作者：Materazzi S^*; Canepari S; Aquili S

来源：Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2012, 19(8): 3292-3298.

DOI：10.1007/s11356-012-0846-8

• Heavy metal pollution
• Copper
• Biosensors
• Uptake
• Aquatic plants
• Lemna minor
• Ranunculus tricophyllus

The copper bioaccumulation by the floating Lemna minor and by the completely submerged Ranunculus tricophyllus as a function of exposure time and copper concentration was studied, with the aim of proposing these species as environmental biosensors of the water pollution.
The results show that both these aquatic angiosperms are good indicators of copper pollution because the copper uptake is the only function of metal concentration (water pollution).
Uptake behavior is reported as a function of the time and concentration, based on the results of a 3-year study. Kinetic evaluations are proposed.

• 出版日期2012-9