Aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies
Over the past decade, ecologists have tried to determine how changes in species composition and diversity affect ecosystem structure and function. Until recently, the majorities of these studies have been conducted in terrestrial ecosystems and have not taken into account environmental varia...
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iium-379602018-06-12T06:27:48Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/37960/ Aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies Othman, Rashidi Hanifah, Nurul Azlen Shaharuddin, Ruhul Izzati GE Environmental Sciences SB Plant culture TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering TD172 Environmental pollution Over the past decade, ecologists have tried to determine how changes in species composition and diversity affect ecosystem structure and function. Until recently, the majorities of these studies have been conducted in terrestrial ecosystems and have not taken into account environmental variability. Nowadays, humans tend to neglect water as part of main sources in our daily life. As time goes by, with few exceptions, water has always been a natural resource that people take for granted. The idea of this research is to understand how aquatic plants can be used to detect and act as an indicator for polluted freshwater bodies. In this study, sixteen water samples were collected from four different places (Selangor, Perak, Pahang and Kelantan) where six different aquatic plant species were abundance and dominant. All the water samples were analyzed for six types of heavy metals which are iron (Fe), lead (Pb), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), and nickel (Ni) and manganese (Mn). All six different aquatic plant species which are Eichhornia crassipes, Hydrilla verticillata, Cabomba fuscata, Salvinia natans, Nelumbo nucifera and Pistia stratiotes exhibiting highly significant differences between aquatic plant species widespread, locations and the heavy metals content. This clearly demonstrates that freshwater environment with abundance of invasive macrophyte species can have an important influence and indication on the accumulation of heavy metals content. The importance of the interaction components emphasises that the changes in heavy metals composition are complex and the responses are not consistent across all aquatic plant species. Examination of the summarised data revealed that, of the 6 macrophyte species analysed at all different locations, all exhibits as potential ecological indicator for unhealthy aquatic ecosystems or as phytoindicator for heavy metal contaminants either at low or high level contamination. 2014-06 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37960/1/GTAR_4.pdf Othman, Rashidi and Hanifah, Nurul Azlen and Shaharuddin, Ruhul Izzati (2014) Aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies. In: International Conference On Global Trends in Academic Research (GTAR-2014), 1st-3rd June 2014, Bali, Indonesia. |
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Over the past decade, ecologists have tried to determine how changes in
species composition and diversity affect ecosystem structure and function.
Until recently, the majorities of these studies have been conducted in
terrestrial ecosystems and have not taken into account environmental
variability. Nowadays, humans tend to neglect water as part of main sources
in our daily life. As time goes by, with few exceptions, water has always been
a natural resource that people take for granted. The idea of this research is to
understand how aquatic plants can be used to detect and act as an indicator
for polluted freshwater bodies. In this study, sixteen water samples were
collected from four different places (Selangor, Perak, Pahang and Kelantan)
where six different aquatic plant species were abundance and dominant. All
the water samples were analyzed for six types of heavy metals which are iron
(Fe), lead (Pb), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), and nickel (Ni) and manganese (Mn).
All six different aquatic plant species which are Eichhornia crassipes,
Hydrilla verticillata, Cabomba fuscata, Salvinia natans, Nelumbo nucifera
and Pistia stratiotes exhibiting highly significant differences between aquatic
plant species widespread, locations and the heavy metals content. This clearly
demonstrates that freshwater environment with abundance of invasive
macrophyte species can have an important influence and indication on the
accumulation of heavy metals content. The importance of the interaction
components emphasises that the changes in heavy metals composition are
complex and the responses are not consistent across all aquatic plant species.
Examination of the summarised data revealed that, of the 6 macrophyte
species analysed at all different locations, all exhibits as potential ecological
indicator for unhealthy aquatic ecosystems or as phytoindicator for heavy
metal contaminants either at low or high level contamination.
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Aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies |
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Aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies |
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