PMID- 23768993
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20131213
LR  - 20190318
IS  - 1873-6424 (Electronic)
IS  - 0269-7491 (Linking)
VI  - 180
DP  - 2013 Sep
TI  - Guidelines for biomonitoring persistent organic pollutants (POPs), using lichens 
      and aquatic mosses--a review.
PG  - 330-8
LID - S0269-7491(13)00266-2 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.05.019 [doi]
AB  - During the last decades, awareness regarding persistent organic pollutants 
      (POPs), such dioxins and furans (PCDD/Fs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons 
      (PAHs), has become a cutting-edge topic, due to their toxicity, bioaccumulation 
      and persistency in the environment. Monitoring of PCDD/Fs and PAHs in air and 
      water has proven to be insufficient to capture deposition and effects of these 
      compounds in the biota. To overcome this limitation, environmental biomonitoring 
      using lichens and aquatic mosses, have aroused as promising tools. The main aim 
      of this work is to provide a review of: i) factors that influence the 
      interception and accumulation of POPs by lichens; ii) how lichens and aquatic 
      bryophytes can be used to track different pollution sources and; iii) how can 
      these biomonitors contribute to environmental health studies. This review will 
      allow designing a set of guidelines to be followed when using biomonitors to 
      assess environmental POP pollution.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Augusto, Sofia
AU  - Augusto S
AD  - Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciencias, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, 
      Campo Grande, C2, Piso 5, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal. Electronic address: 
      s.augusto@fc.ul.pt.
FAU - Maguas, Cristina
AU  - Maguas C
FAU - Branquinho, Cristina
AU  - Branquinho C
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
DEP - 20130613
PL  - England
TA  - Environ Pollut
JT  - Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
JID - 8804476
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants)
SB  - IM
MH  - Air Pollutants/analysis
MH  - Bryophyta/chemistry
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/*methods
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Guidelines as Topic
MH  - Lichens/chemistry
MH  - Water Pollutants/analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Air pollution
OT  - Bioindicator
OT  - Biomonitor
OT  - Human health
OT  - POP
EDAT- 2013/06/19 06:00
MHDA- 2013/12/18 06:00
CRDT- 2013/06/18 06:00
PHST- 2012/07/06 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/03/07 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2013/05/08 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/06/18 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/06/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/12/18 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0269-7491(13)00266-2 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.05.019 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Pollut. 2013 Sep;180:330-8. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.05.019. Epub 2013 
      Jun 13.