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Macro-Morphological Traits of Leaves for Urban Tree Selection for Air Pollution Biomonitoring: A Review
Urban trees provide different ecosystem benefits, such as improving air quality due to the retention of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) on their leaves. The main objective of this paper was to study, through a systematic literature review, the leaf macro-morphological traits (LMTs) most used for...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9599504/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36290949 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios12100812 |
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author | Rodríguez-Santamaría, Karen Zafra-Mejía, Carlos Alfonso Rondón-Quintana, Hugo Alexander |
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description | Urban trees provide different ecosystem benefits, such as improving air quality due to the retention of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) on their leaves. The main objective of this paper was to study, through a systematic literature review, the leaf macro-morphological traits (LMTs) most used for the selection of urban trees as air pollution biomonitors. A citation frequency index was used in scientific databases, where the importance associated with each variable was organized by quartiles (Q). The results suggest that the most biomonitored air pollutants by the LMTs of urban trees were PM between 1–100 µm (Q1 = 0.760), followed by O(3) (Q2 = 0.586), PM(2.5) (Q2 = 0.504), and PM(10) (Q3 = 0.423). PM was probably the most effective air pollutant for studying and evaluating urban air quality in the context of tree LMTs. PM(2.5) was the fraction most used in these studies. The LMTs most used for PM monitoring were leaf area (Q1) and specific leaf area (Q4). These LMTs were frequently used for their easy measurement and quantification. In urban areas, it was suggested that leaf area was directly related to the amount of PM retained on tree leaves. The PM retained on tree leaves was also used to study other f associated urban air pollutants associated (e.g., heavy metals and hydrocarbons). |
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spelling | pubmed-95995042022-10-27 Macro-Morphological Traits of Leaves for Urban Tree Selection for Air Pollution Biomonitoring: A Review Rodríguez-Santamaría, Karen Zafra-Mejía, Carlos Alfonso Rondón-Quintana, Hugo Alexander Biosensors (Basel) Review Urban trees provide different ecosystem benefits, such as improving air quality due to the retention of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) on their leaves. The main objective of this paper was to study, through a systematic literature review, the leaf macro-morphological traits (LMTs) most used for the selection of urban trees as air pollution biomonitors. A citation frequency index was used in scientific databases, where the importance associated with each variable was organized by quartiles (Q). The results suggest that the most biomonitored air pollutants by the LMTs of urban trees were PM between 1–100 µm (Q1 = 0.760), followed by O(3) (Q2 = 0.586), PM(2.5) (Q2 = 0.504), and PM(10) (Q3 = 0.423). PM was probably the most effective air pollutant for studying and evaluating urban air quality in the context of tree LMTs. PM(2.5) was the fraction most used in these studies. The LMTs most used for PM monitoring were leaf area (Q1) and specific leaf area (Q4). These LMTs were frequently used for their easy measurement and quantification. In urban areas, it was suggested that leaf area was directly related to the amount of PM retained on tree leaves. The PM retained on tree leaves was also used to study other f associated urban air pollutants associated (e.g., heavy metals and hydrocarbons). MDPI 2022-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9599504/ /pubmed/36290949 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios12100812 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Rodríguez-Santamaría, Karen Zafra-Mejía, Carlos Alfonso Rondón-Quintana, Hugo Alexander Macro-Morphological Traits of Leaves for Urban Tree Selection for Air Pollution Biomonitoring: A Review |
title | Macro-Morphological Traits of Leaves for Urban Tree Selection for Air Pollution Biomonitoring: A Review |
title_full | Macro-Morphological Traits of Leaves for Urban Tree Selection for Air Pollution Biomonitoring: A Review |
title_fullStr | Macro-Morphological Traits of Leaves for Urban Tree Selection for Air Pollution Biomonitoring: A Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Macro-Morphological Traits of Leaves for Urban Tree Selection for Air Pollution Biomonitoring: A Review |
title_short | Macro-Morphological Traits of Leaves for Urban Tree Selection for Air Pollution Biomonitoring: A Review |
title_sort | macro-morphological traits of leaves for urban tree selection for air pollution biomonitoring: a review |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9599504/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36290949 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios12100812 |
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