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- Title
AQUATIC PLANTS AS BIOINDICATORS OF CONTAMINATION OF UPPER NAREW RIVER AND SOME OF ITS TRIBUTARIES WITH HEAVY METALS.
- Authors
Skorbiłowicz, Elżbieta
- Abstract
In this study, the contents of cadmium, nickel, zinc, copper, chromium, cobalt and lead were analysed in the roots of Glyceria aquatica, Phragmites australis and Acorus calamus, living in the upper Narew River and some of its tributaries as well as in bottom sediments of those watercourses. The concentrations of the above chemical elements were determined by means of atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS). Anthropogenic, economic and municipal activities as well as traffic and run-offs are responsible for heavy metal accumulation in bottom sediments and aquatic plant roots. The study performed revealed that plant material and bottom sediments of the Narew River and its tributaries are mostly contaminated with cadmium.
- Subjects
NAREW River (Belarus &; Poland); POLAND; AQUATIC plants; BIOINDICATORS; POLLUTION; WATER pollution; HEAVY metal toxicology; RIVERS
- Publication
Environment Protection Engineering, 2009, Vol 35, Issue 1, p65
- ISSN
0324-8828
- Publication type
Article