Plants as Biomonitors of Indoor Air Quality
Author | : Marsha Elizabeth Ritter Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1994 |
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Author | : Marsha Elizabeth Ritter Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Joni Lee Griffin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Air quality management |
ISBN | : |
The use of houseplants as air quality indicators is an effective way to monitor air quality in homes and buildings as well as a good method for alleviating indoor air pollution. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), people spend around 90% of their time indoors and increasing scientific evidence is showing that indoor air can be more polluted than outside air. The quantity of many indoor pollutants may be 25 times, and at times, greater than 100 times that of outdoor levels, according to studes by the EPA of human exposure to air pollutants. The use of houseplants to remove indoor air pollutants is an area of research that has shown promising results for improving human health, yet it has not been adequately explored. There are many incorrect assumptions regarding the use of plants to remove indoor air pollutants as well. A careful examination of the available research revealed that many types of plants, can effectively remove a number of indoor air pollutants. Several researchers were also able to determine specifically how plants remove pollutants from indoor air. Further research is necessary for optimum utilization of houseplants as air quality indicators and alleviators of indoor air pollution.
Author | : B.C. Wolverton |
Publisher | : Orion Spring |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2020-04-20 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1398701173 |
An illustrated guide to the houseplants you need for clean and fresh air when you're stuck at home How clean is the air you breathe? Plants are the lungs of the earth: they produce the oxygen that makes life possible, add precious moisture and filter toxins. Houseplants can perform these essential functions in your home or office with the same efficiency as a rainforest in our biosphere. In this beautifully illustrated guide, noted scientist Dr Bill Wolverton shows you how to grow 50 plants that filter the most common pollutants, making it easy for you to purify the environments that impact you the most.
Author | : K. Omasa |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 4431683887 |
Air pollution is ubiquitous in industrialized societies, causing a host of environmental problems. It is thus essential to monitor and reduce pollution levels. A number of plant species already are being exploited as detectors (for phytomonitoring) and as scavengers (for phytoremediation) of air pollutants. With advances in biotechnology, it is now feasible to modify plants for a wider range of phytomonitoring and phytoremediation applications. Air Pollution and Plant Biotechnology presents recent results in this field, including plant responses during phytomonitoring, pollution-resistant plant species, imaging diagnosis of plant responses, and the use of novel transgenic plants, along with reviews of basic plant physiology and biochemistry where appropriate. Researchers and students working in plant biotechnology and the environmental sciences or considering new areas of investigation will find this volume a valuable reference.
Author | : Peng Li |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-01-10 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9789999314213 |
Air plant (Tillandsia spp.) is a kind of special plants that can grow in the air and does not need soil. It is originated from Central and South America and has been introduced and cultivated all over the world because of its unique ornamental value. As a special epiphytic group, the root function of air plant is degraded, and it's growth completely depends on the leaves to absorb water and nutrients from the air, so its leaf absorption capacity is strong. The book contains a systematic study on the biomonitoring, purification and dynamic response of air plant to air pollutants. The results show that air plant is a broad spectrum plant to absorb atmospheric pollutants, including heavy metals (Hg, Cd, Pb etc.), formaldehyde, radon (Rn) and particulate matters (PM10, PM2.5 etc.). The specialized foliar trichomes densely covering Tillandsia leaves played a major role in the absorption of various pollutants. Moreover, air plant has a strong ability to resist air pollution damage, and has various unique avoidance or mitigation mechanisms in structure, physiology, gene and other aspects. Hormesis effect, in the framework of which a toxicant has a stimulating effect at low doses and a toxic effect at high doses, can commonly occur in this plant. Plant resistance genes and glutathione (GSH) may play an important role in the generation of hormesis.
Author | : L. Steubing |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1982-08-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789061939474 |
Author | : Giacomo Lorenzini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : B. C. Wolverton |
Publisher | : Phoenix |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : House plants |
ISBN | : 9780753800461 |
Dr Bill Wolverton details 50 houseplants that can create a healty environment byremoving toxins, chemicals and pollutants from homes and offices. Each plant is rated according to its effectiveness in general and in realtion to specific toxins, chemicals and pollutants.
Author | : Angela Mulgrew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Mira Aničić Uroević |
Publisher | : Nova Science Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Air |
ISBN | : 9781536100518 |
Air pollution has been recognised as the worlds top problem in many strategic environmental policies. However, it is still inadequately corroborated by regulatory monitoring due to the balance between costs and practicable constraints. The variability in air pollution patterns additionally emphasises a need for feasible approaches to extensive screening of pollutants. To achieve highly temporally -- and spatially -- resolved measurements, biomonitoring (ie: the use of living organisms to determine changes in the environment has been utilised in the investigating of a complementary method to regulatory measurements). The book aims to give reviews of research over the last decade of the most recommended organisms for monitoring airborne inorganic and organic pollutants. Naturally growing mosses and lichens have been used as passive biomonitors of long-term atmospheric deposition of the pollutants across remote areas. To overcome scarcity of these biomonitors in anthropogenically devastated areas, an active biomonitoring approach has been investigated. Specifically, the use of moss and lichen bags represents a convenient technique for easily performed biomonitoring of short-term and small-scale pollutant distribution, especially in urban and industrial areas. As a new direction in biomonitoring, magnetic properties of the biomonitors have been investigated as a valuable proxy for ambient particle pollution. This book moves beyond the attempt to promote biomonitoring as an effective approach for screening air quality that should be considered for implementation into laws and regulations against air pollution. Finally, the authors review the latest research in the field of air pollution biomonitoring, which is vital for everyone engaged in solving environmental issues.