Authors:
Cozea Andreea, Bucur Elena
Conference: International Symposium “The Environment and the Industry”
Date: 26-27 September 2019
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Published: 2019
Keywords:
Air quality
Bioindicators
Biomonitoring
Climate change 

Abstract:

Nowadays, the air pollution has become a major environmental problem due to rapid increase of industrialization and anthropogenic activities which led to climate change. Air pollution is considered as a harmful agent for human health. Different classes of pollutants like gaseous (SOx, NOx) are continuously released in air and perceived/recognized as pollutants. Among the biological models, plants could indicate pollution load in a particular area via alterations in physiological parameters so, there is a need for reliable and sustainable air pollution monitoring and control methods.

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