Buellia dispersa (Lichens) Used as Bio-Indicator for Air Pollution Transport: A Case Study within the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada (USA)

Authors

• Douglas B. Sims, College of Southern Nevada
• Amanda Hudson, College of Southern Nevada
• Ji Hye Park, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Vernon F. Hodge, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
• Heidi Porter, College of Southern Nevada
• W. Geffrey Spaulding, Terra Antiqua Research

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-17-2017

Publication Title

Environments

Volume

2017

Issue

4

First page number:

1

Last page number:

19

Abstract

Analyses of lichen biomass (Buellia dispersa), when compared to windrose diagrams, shows pathways of airborne pollutant transport across the Las Vegas Valley. The west and north sectors of the Las Vegas Valley contained the lowest target contaminates (e.g., Cr, Cu, Co, Pb, Ni) and the highest NO3− while the east....

Keywords

Las Vegas, Buellia dispersa, lichen, air pollution, trace metals, nitrates, windrose

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File Size

3300 KB

Language

English

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Repository Citation

Sims, D. B., Hudson, A., Park, J. H., Hodge, V. F., Porter, H., Spaulding, W. (2017). Buellia dispersa (Lichens) Used as Bio-Indicator for Air Pollution Transport: A Case Study within the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada (USA). Environments, 2017(4), 1-19.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/environments4040094