RT Journal Article
T1 Effect of Current Velocity on Cd Accumulation in the Aquatic Moss Fontinalis antipyretica
A1 Vázquez Arias, Antón
A1 Debén García, Sofía
A1 Casanova Chiclana, Adrián
A1 Pacín Salvador, María do Carme
A1 Aboal Viñas, Jesús
A1 Fernández Escribano, José Ángel
K1 Biomonitoring
K1 Pollution
K1 River
K1 Bryophytes
K1 Cadmium
K1 Water velocity
AB With the aim of further standardizing biomonitoring techniques with aquatic mosses, the relationship between the velocity of water flow and cadmium (Cd) accumulation in transplants of the moss Fontinalis antipyretica was investigated. For this purpose, moss transplants were exposed in a controlled aquatic environment to different concentrations of Cd (0, 4, 16 and 36 ng g−1) and different water velocities (10, 30, 50, 70 and 90 cm s−1). The Cd concentrations in the moss transplants mainly depended on the Cd concentration in the water, but a small fraction of the variance was explained by water velocity. The Cd concentrations in moss were standardized to remove the effect of the concentration in the water so all the data could be analyzed together. The regression model for the standardized concentrations explained 23% of the variance in Cd accumulation in F. antipyretica and water velocity proved to be a significant predictor of Cd accumulation
PB MDPI
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24171
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24171
LA eng
NO Vázquez-Arias, A.; Debén, S.; Casanova, A.; Pacín, C.; Aboal, J.R.; Fernández, J.A. Effect of Current Velocity on Cd Accumulation in the Aquatic Moss Fontinalis antipyretica. Water 2021, 13, 157
NO The study was partly financed by the Spanish Government (project CTM2016-70578-P)
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026