Comparative assessment of potentially toxic elements bioaccumulation and biomonitoring ability using rosehip, hazelnut, and black elder leaves
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Date
2025
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Šerbula, Snežana
Kalinović, Tanja
Radojević, Ana
Kalinović, Jelena
Jordanovic, Jelena
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Crnogorsko društvo za koroziju, zaštitu materijala i zaštitu životne sredine
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Knjiga radova [Elektronski izvor] - Šesti Međunarodni simpozijum o koroziji i zaštiti materijala, životnoj sredini i zaštiti od požara, Bar, 23-26. septembar 2025. godine
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This paper aims to evaluate and compare the environmental role of the rosehip, hazelnut and black elder, in areas with various anthropogenic sources of pollution. In addition to the essential elements for plants such as Ni, Zn, Cu and Fe, the leaves of the studied plant species contained certain amounts of toxic or non-essential elements such as Cd, As, Pb and Al. The concentrations of the analysed elements in the hazelnut and elder leaves from the urban-industrial (UI) and rural (R2) sampling sites stood out in the box plot analyses by the highest number of outlying (mild and extreme) data points. Cu and Pb were the elements with the highest values of the Enrichment factor (EF), in the leaves of the studied plant species, while enrichment was also noted for Zn, Fe, Al, As and Cd, depending on the sampling site and plant species. The highest EF values were calculated for the samples from the UI and R2 sampling sites. The rosehip, hazelnut and elder leaves have a good retention capacity for particulate matter originating from the air containing potentially toxic elements (PTEs), and thus represent green resources for monitoring and mitigation of environmental pollution.
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PTEs, Rosehip, Hazelnut, Black elder
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978-9940-9334-5-6
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