title: Biomonitoring of atmospheric pollution by moss bags: Discriminating urban-rural structure in a fragmented landscape.
abstract: In this paper we investigated the possibility to use moss bags to detect pollution inputs - metals, metalloids and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) - in sites chosen for their different land use (agricultural, urban/residential scenarios) and proximity to roads (sub-scenarios), in a fragmented conurbation of Campania (southern Italy). We focused on thirty-nine elements including rare earths. For most of them, moss uptake was higher in agricultural than in urban scenarios and in front road sites. Twenty PAHs were analyzed in a subset of agricultural sites; 4- and 5-ringed PAHs were the most abundant, particularly chrysene, fluoranthene and pyrene. Overall results indicated that investigated pollutants have a similar spatial distribution pattern over the entire study area, with road traffic and agricultural practices as the major diffuse pollution sources. Moss bags proved a very sensitive tool, able to discriminate between different land use scenarios and proximity to roads in a mixed rural-urban landscape.
authors: Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Ambiente (CIRAM), Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Mezzocannone, 16, 80132 Napoli, Italy; Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy.
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Capozzi
authors: Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Ambiente (CIRAM), Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Mezzocannone, 16, 80132 Napoli, Italy; Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Cintia 4, 80126 Napoli, Italy. Electronic address: simonetta.giordano@unina.it.
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Giordano
authors: Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Ambiente (CIRAM), Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Mezzocannone, 16, 80132 Napoli, Italy; Dipartimento di Agraria, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Università 100, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Di Palma
authors: Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Ambiente (CIRAM), Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Mezzocannone, 16, 80132 Napoli, Italy; Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Cintia 4, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
authors: V
authors: V
authors: Spagnuolo
authors: Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università degli studi del Sannio, Via Port'Arsa 11, 82100 Benevento, Italy.
authors: F
authors: F
authors: De Nicola
authors: Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Ambiente (CIRAM), Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Mezzocannone, 16, 80132 Napoli, Italy; Dipartimento di Agraria, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Università 100, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Adamo
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D001272:Atmosphere / Q000737:chemistry; D044002:Bryophyta / Q000737:chemistry*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008670:Metals / Q000032:analysis; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D008670:Metals; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
keywords: Atmospheric deposition; Heavy metals; Hypnum cupressiforme; Moss transplants; PAHs; Urban sprawl