7. Current and future developments in plant biomonitoring
7.1 Report
Whether in the air or in the aquatic environment, to date the main functions of plant biomonitoring have been to :
detection of pollutants present in the environment ;
estimating different pollution levels;
delimitation (mapping) of contaminated areas.
Such biomonitoring work is generally carried out using identical plants scattered around the sites to be studied. It is interesting to note that, in this work, plants are always used as state indicators, even when the study of their physiological disturbances to estimate pollutant levels would have enabled them to be used in parallel as exposure indicators. This may be due...
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Current and future developments in plant biomonitoring
Air quality monitoring with biostations
References
Regulations – Standardization
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In the air
Table 1 shows the main biomonitoring guidelines that have been revised in recent years, in particular by the VDI (Germany).
In France, based on the observation that nothing...
Biomonitoring program
ICP Vegetation – International Cooperative Programme on effects of air Pollution on natural vegetation and crops
Some examples of implementation
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Plant biomonitoring and bioremediation of indoor air pollutants in buildings
Over the past 20 years, buildings have become increasingly airtight, under pressure to minimize energy costs. Nevertheless, they are subject, whether voluntarily or not, to outside air generally referred to as "new air" or "fresh air".
Premises are therefore...
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