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  • Trace elements in Mediterranean seagrasses and macroalgae : a review
    Bonanno, Giuseppe ; Orlando-Bonaca, Martina
    This reviewinvestigates the current state of knowledge on the levels of themain essential and non-essential trace elements in Mediterranean vascular plants and macroalgae. The research focuses also ... on the so far known effects of high element concentrations on these marine organisms. The possible use of plants and algae as bioindicators of marine pollution is discussed aswell. The presence of trace elements is overallwell known in all fiveMediterranean vascular plants, whereas current studies investigated element concentrations in only c. 5.0% of all native Mediterranean macroalgae. Although seagrasses and macroalgae can generally accumulate and tolerate high concentrations of trace elements, phytotoxic levels are still not clearly identified for both groups of organisms. Moreover, although the high accumulation of trace elements in seagrasses and macroalgae is considered as a significant risk for the associated food webs, the realmagnitude of this risk has not been adequately investigated yet. The current research provides enough scientific evidence that seagrasses and macroalgae may act as effective bioindicators, especially the former for trace elements in sediments, and the latter in seawater. The combined use of seagrasses and macroalgae as bioindicators still lacks validated protocols, whose application should be strongly encouraged to biomonitor exhaustively the presence of trace elements in the abiotic and biotic components of coastal ecosystems.
    Vir: Science of the total environment. - ISSN 0048-9697 (Vol. 618, 2018, str. 1152-1159)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2018
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 4481359

    Povezava(-e):

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.192
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