Vázquez Arias, AntónDebén García, SofíaCasanova Chiclana, AdriánPacín Salvador, María do CarmeAboal Viñas, JesúsFernández Escribano, José Ángel2021-01-142021-01-142021Vázquez-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, 157http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24171With 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 accumulationeng© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Atribución 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BiomonitoringPollutionRiverBryophytesCadmiumWater velocityjournal article2073-4441open access