• DOI:10.5772/17907
Corpus ID: 38660986

Monitoring Epiphytic Lichen Biodiversity to Detect Environmental Quality and Air Pollution: the Case Study of Roccamonfina Park (Campania Region - Italy)

@inproceedings{Aprile2011MonitoringEL,
  title={Monitoring Epiphytic Lichen Biodiversity to Detect Environmental Quality and Air Pollution: the Case Study of Roccamonfina Park (Campania Region - Italy)},
  author={G. G. Aprile and I. Catalano and A. Migliozzi and A. Mingo},
  year={2011}
}

G. G. Aprile, I. Catalano, +1 author A. Mingo

Published 2011

Environmental Science

Biomonitoring of air pollution, i.e. monitoring environmental pollution through the use of living organisms (Nimis & Skert, 1999), may be based either on the tendency of some organism to accumulate pollutants in their tissues (bioaccumulation) or on the changes that occur in the composition of animal and plant communities after exposure to pollutants (bioindication). Compared to instrumental monitoring, the use of biomonitors allows to measure as a whole the global effect that abiotic and… CONTINUE READING

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