title: [Air pollution biomonitoring with plants and fungi: concepts and uses].
abstract: Air pollution remains a major environmental concern of the French. Since about 30 years, due to evolution and diversification of sources, pollution became more and more complex, constituting a true "cocktail". Today, it is very important to know environmental and health effects of this cocktail. In this context air biomonitoring using plants and fungi can bring a lot of information. Biomonitoring includes four concepts: the use of biomarkers, bioindication biointegration and bioaccumulation. These four concepts are articulated according to the levels of biological organization, what links up biosurveillance on fundamental plan with ecotoxicology. It is a complementary approach of the physicochemical techniques of air pollution measurements. The main objectives of biomonitoring studies are the monitoring of the space and temporal distribution of pollutants effect; the monitoring of local sources; participation in the health risks assessment; the information of people and the help to decision in public policies. Biomonitoring of air quality is a method, which made its proof in numerous domains of application and brings fundamental information on the impacts of the quality of air. Recent evolution of low concerning biggest industries allows us to envisage the increase of air quality biomonitoring with plants and fungi applications in the field of the valuation of environmental and health risks. The recent normalization (French and European) of different methods will also allow the development of uses.
authors: EA 4483 « Impacts de l'environnement chimique sur la santé humaine », laboratoire des sciences végétales et fongiques, faculté des sciences biologiques et pharmaceutiques, université Lille Nord de France, 3, rue du Professeur-Laguesse, BP 83, 59006 Lille cedex, France. damien.cuny@univ-lille2.fr
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mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000737:chemistry / Q000633:toxicity; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000032:analysis*; D015415:Biomarkers; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D005602:France; D005658:Fungi; D006801:Humans; D010944:Plants; D011057:Politics; D018570:Risk Assessment
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D015415:Biomarkers