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Honeybees as sentinels of lead pollution: Spatio-temporal variations and source appointment using stable isotopes and Kohonen self-organizing maps

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Title
Honeybees as sentinels of lead pollution: Spatio-temporal variations and source appointment using stable isotopes and Kohonen self-organizing maps
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Science of the Total Environment, June 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.040
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Nenad M. Zarić, Isidora Deljanin, Konstantin Ilijević, Ljubiša Stanisavljević, Mirjana Ristić, Ivan Gržetić

Abstract

In this study, honeybees were used to determine spatio-temporal variations and origin sources of Pb. Lead concentrations and isotopic composition were used in combination with selected statistical methods. The sampling was carried out at five different locations in Serbia: urban region (BG), petrochemical industry (PA), suburban region (PV), rural region (MS) and thermal power plant region (TPP) during 2014. At PA and PV locations, samples were taken during multiple years. This is the first use of Kohonen self-organizing map (SOM) in combination with honeybees as bioindicators to determine spatio-temporal variations and origin of Pb pollution. It was observed that during the years Pb concentrations were in decline. Anthropogenic sources are most dominant in BG and TPP, in PA there are mixed sources of natural and anthropogenic origin and in PV Pb is of natural origin. It can be concluded that honeybees in combination with SOM can be used to differentiate between slight changes in spatio-temporal variations of Pb, as well as for source appointment.

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Unknown 62 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 10%
Researcher 6 10%
Student > Master 6 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 10%
Student > Bachelor 5 8%
Other 18 29%
Unknown 15 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 21%
Environmental Science 8 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 10%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 4 6%
Unspecified 3 5%
Other 10 16%
Unknown 18 29%
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