Among -and within- genus variability of the UV-absorption capacity in saxicolous mosses

Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO--?UP)

Cyanobacteria in biological soil crusts, Earth´s Most Extensive Biofilms: adaptation and sensitivity to global warming

School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, USA

Musgos como bioindicadores de contaminación metálica: caracterización físico-química en términos de adsorción

[EN] Bioindicators have been used in urban and industrial areas to control the atmospheric pollution because it constitutes one of the most important environmental problems of human health. In this sense, mosses are able to reflect the chemical composition of surrounding atmosphere that together with the easy production techniques becomes mosses as one of the potential bioindicators in Europe. This study is part of the Mossclone project (FP-7) and quantifies the adsorption of heavy metals on 4 typical moss species in order to propose one of them to be used for environmental monitoring in the moss bag technique.