How polluted are cities in central Europe? - Heavy metal contamination in Taraxacum officinale and soils collected from different land use areas of three representative cities.

Marta Lisiak-Zielińska; Klaudia Borowiak; Anna Budka; Jolanta Kanclerz; Ewelina Janicka; Anna Kaczor; Andrzej Żyromski; Małgorzata Biniak-Pieróg; Konrad Podawca; Mirosław Mleczek; Przemysław Niedzielski

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.129113

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How polluted are cities in central Europe? - Heavy metal contamination in Taraxacum officinale and soils collected from different land use areas of three representative cities.

Authors

Lisiak-Zielińska, Marta¹
Borowiak, Klaudia²
Budka, Anna³
Kanclerz, Jolanta⁴
Janicka, Ewelina⁵
Kaczor, Anna⁶
Żyromski, Andrzej⁷
Biniak-Pieróg, Małgorzata⁸
Podawca, Konrad⁹
Mleczek, Mirosław¹⁰
Niedzielski, Przemysław¹¹

¹ Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Piatkowska 94C, 60-649, Poznań, Poland. Electronic address: [email protected]. , (Poland)
² Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Piatkowska 94C, 60-649, Poznań, Poland. Electronic address: [email protected]. , (Poland)
³ Department of Mathematical and Statistical Methods, Faculty of Agronomy, Horticulture and Bioengineering, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 28, 60-637, Poznań, Poland. Electronic address: [email protected]. , (Poland)
⁴ Department of Land Improvement, Environmental Development and Spatial Management, Faculty of Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Piatkowska 94E, 60-649, Poznań, Poland. Electronic address: [email protected]. , (Poland)
⁵ Department of Land Improvement, Environmental Development and Spatial Management, Faculty of Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Piatkowska 94E, 60-649, Poznań, Poland. Electronic address: [email protected]. , (Poland)
⁶ Department of Land Improvement, Environmental Development and Spatial Management, Faculty of Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Piatkowska 94E, 60-649, Poznań, Poland. Electronic address: [email protected]. , (Poland)
⁷ Institute of Environmental Protection and Development, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Plac Grunwaldzki 24, 50-363, Wrocław, Poland. Electronic address: [email protected]. , (Poland)
⁸ Institute of Environmental Protection and Development, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Plac Grunwaldzki 24, 50-363, Wrocław, Poland. Electronic address: [email protected]. , (Poland)
⁹ Department of Remote Sensing and Environmental Assessment, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 166, 02-787, Warsaw, Poland. Electronic address: [email protected]. , (Poland)
¹⁰ Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 75, 60-625 Poznań, Poland. Electronic address: [email protected]. , (Poland)
¹¹ Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614, Poznań, Poland. Electronic address: [email protected]. , (Poland)

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Published Article

Journal

Chemosphere

Publication Date

Mar 01, 2021

Volume

266

Pages

129113–129113

Identifiers

DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.129113

PMID: 33310525

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Medline

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Language

English

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Abstract

The level of environmental contamination can vary according to different types of land use. The aim of the present study was to determine the relations among Cd, Pb, Ni and Cr content in plants (Taraxacum officinale) and soils for 10 types of land use in the urban areas of representative cities for central Europe region (Warsaw, Poznan and Wroclaw in Poland). Descriptive statistical analysis, as well as cluster analysis and principal component analysis, heatmaps and Andrews curves, was performed to identify relations between HMs and land use, as well as differences between particular cities. The investigations revealed variation among sites, plant organs and cities. The content (mg kg-1 DW) in soils, roots and leaves for Cd varied between 0.4 and 3.6, 0.4-2.8 and 0.5-3.9, Cr ranged between 23.2 and 40.6, 14.0-26.1 and 15.8-24.8, Ni varied between 2.1 and 13.2, 0.2-42.1 and 0.0-3.9, while Pb varied between 27.0 and 231.5, 4.3-34.2 and 3.0-9.5, respectively. It was possible to note some tendencies. Nickel was the element with the highest content in the roots (up to 42.1 mg kg-1 DW) in comparison to leaves and soils and the highest bioaccumulation factor (up to 15.0). This means that the main source of Ni might be contamination of the soil. The cluster analysis of standardized HM levels in leaves revealed that cadmium is a different from the other three elements, which might be related to the translocation factor, for which this element was found to have the highest levels at many sites. Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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