Bryophytes as indicators of trace metal pollution in the River Brenta (NE Italy) (original) (raw)

Science of The Total Environment, 2002

Abstract

The performance of aquatic bryophytes for detecting metal pollution was tested along the River Brenta, in NE Italy. Nine sampling sites were selected, three of them along short tributaries with no anthropic influence upstream, the others along the main bed of the river. Two sites were deliberately placed downstream from a previously known pollution focus. The multivariate analysis (classification and ordination) of the matrix of 10 metals and 38 samples revealed:(i) a good discrimination between 'clean'and potentially polluted sites;(ii ...

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