Biomonitoring of Air Pollution
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2019) | Viewed by 28785
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Interests: biomonitoring of air quality; bioaccumulation of pollutants; plant-environment interactions
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Interests: phytoremediation; plant biomonitoring; plant response to abiotic stress; plant biodiversity along environmental gradients
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Interests: plants as biomonitors of air quality; phytoremediation; factors influencing plant growth in a space environment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Despite the introduction of cleaner and sustainable technologies in industry, energy, and good production and transport, air pollution remains a major health risk. The World Health Organization reported that air pollution in 2012 caused the deaths of about 7 million people worldwide (WHO, 2014), confirming air pollution as one of the principal environmental health risks in the world, and indicated its reduction as an urgent task to save millions of lives. An effort should be made to assess the presence in the atmosphere of "old" pollutants and to bring to light emerging ones. Moreover, understanding the mechanisms of pollutant dispersion and transformation in the atmosphere and their uptake by plants represents a prerequisite to individuate the best methodologies for their monitoring. Thanks to their innate characteristics, plants are particularly suited to describe the spatial–temporal trends of pollutant deposition and the effects induced by airborne pollutants, forecasting environmental changes from small to large scale. Biomonitoring with plants is considered an adequate alternative technique to acquire data about pollution, but up to date, there are still some open issues needing exploration by the scientific community. In addition to conventional air monitoring systems, it is necessary to use and implement new, cost-effective, robust, and flexible tools for monitoring air quality using plants. Therefore, all those studies based on new methods or on the improvement of already existing ones, particularly regarding emerging pollutants, are welcome in this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Simonetta Giordano
Prof. Dr. Valeria Spagnuolo
Dr. Fiore Capozzi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- air pollution
- biomonitoring
- inorganic pollutants
- organic pollutants
- emerging pollutants
- new technologies
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