9. Water quality monitoring using biostations
These biostations take advantage of the ability of aquatic plants to grow and continuously accumulate the various pollutants present. In particular, they can detect the presence of pollutants undetectable in water by conventional physico-chemical methods.
In the field, these biostations generally consist of a basin of a few cubic meters, continuously fed with the water to be monitored (figure 8 ). Here, elodea, duckweed or mosses (bryophytes) permanently cultivated in floating tanks accumulate the various pollutants present in the water:...
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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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