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ASSESSING BIOMONITORING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE STUDY OF TECHNOGENIC POLLUTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE YAMAL PENINSULA

Section

Environmental Monitoring and Regulations

Title

ASSESSING BIOMONITORING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE STUDY OF TECHNOGENIC POLLUTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE YAMAL PENINSULA

Сontributors

А. V. Gorbunov, Ph. D., senior scientific employee of the Geological institute to Russian Academy of the sciences (GIN RAN), Moscow, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,

S.M. Lyapunov, Ph. D., managinging laboratory GIN RAN, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,

O.I. Okina, Ph. D., senior scientific employee GIN RAN, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,

N. P. Chamov, Doctor of Science in geology and mineralogy, managinging laboratory GIN RAN, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,

M. V. Frontasyeva, Ph. D., the assistant professor, chief of the sector of the Laboratory neutron physicists (LNF) im. I. M. Franc of the United institute of the nucleus studies (OIYaI), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,

S.S. Pavlov, leadinging engineer of the sector LNF OIYaI, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,

M. V. Avdoseva, trainee-researcher GIN RAN, master-student RUDN, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract

Some types of vegetation typical for the Arctic zone of the Yamal Peninsula, were used to assess the possibility of biomonitoring of atmospheric deposition of heavy metals. The concentrations of toxic metals such as Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Cd, Hg and Pb in the samples was determined by atomic absorption analysis. The advantages of the use of moss type Sphagnum to estimate the intensity of atmospheric deposition on the peninsula were shown. A comparison of the concentration levels of metals in mosses Yamal Peninsula with those of other Russian and European Studies was carried out. The coefficients of metal concentrations in mosses for different gas fields were calculated. The impact factors and the general level of environmental pollution by above metals on the Yamal Peninsula were estimated.

Keywords

biomonitoring, wood and forb-grass vegetation, sphagnum moss, atmospheric deposition, heavy and toxic metals.

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