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Bioindication of Heavy Metals Contamination by Mushrooms and Mosses in Highly Industrialized Environment

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The importance of plants in bioindicative assessment of environmental pollution is well known. Mosses and edible mushrooms, especially in the context of human health risk assessment, can be useful, as well. Contaminants generated by human activity and industrial pressure, including heavy metals, entering to the ecosystem by wet and dry deposition and are dangerous for the food chain. Upper Silesia in Poland is one of the most industrialized and populated regions in Europe, where simultaneously forest ecosystem services, including forest floor fruits and mushrooms acquisition, are important and have a long tradition. In the chapter, we present the biomonitoring of heavy metals pollution by mushrooms and mosses contamination level on the evidence from forest ecosystems around the “Miasteczko Śląskie” zinc smelter.

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Pająk, M., Pietrzykowski, M. (2021). Bioindication of Heavy Metals Contamination by Mushrooms and Mosses in Highly Industrialized Environment. In: Joshi, S.J., Deshmukh, A., Sarma, H. (eds) Biotechnology for Sustainable Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1955-7_11

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