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8. Air quality monitoring with biostations
8.1 Current situation
Biostations generally consist of 1 or more model plants (figure 7 ). Some of these are now standardized (e.g. ryegrass for inorganic elements, kale for organic elements). Thanks to the use of these model plants, biostations also provide us with information on air quality and, for the first time, on the contamination of food chains leading to humans or animals, i.e. on the health risks associated with the presence of these pollutants.
In the field, several biostations consisting of different crops (on a shelf or directly on the ground) are set up around the sites to be...
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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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