Heavy metals in the lichen Ramalina duriaei transplanted in biomonitoring stations |
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Authors: | Jacob Garty Camil Fuchs |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Botany, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2. Department of Statistics, Tel Aviv University, Israel and Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Abstract: | The amounts of six heavy metals, Cu, Cr, Cd, Pb, Zn, and Ni in the transplanted fruticose lichen Ramalina duriaei, have been determined. The contents of these metals in the material exposed for 1 yr at the site which served as a source for the transplantation were found to be much lower than in the lichen transplanted close to busy roads and to places with other intensive human activities. Correlation coefficients between some pairs of the heavy metals found in the transplanted R. duriaei are closer to those previously found in Caloplaca aurantia from rural and suburban sites than to those from industrial sites in Tel-Aviv. All these heavy metals are expected in the emission from a coal-fired electric generating station to be located at the sea shore in the near future. We recommend that a program of monitoring for a power station at the proposed coastal site include routine determination of (a) the amounts of these metals in transplanted lichens, (b) the correlation between the amounts and the distance from the sea, and (c) the correlation between pairs of these metals at various locations. |
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