Aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies

Over the past decade, ecologists have tried to determine how changes in species composition and diversity affect ecosystem structure and function. Until recently, the majorities of these studies have been conducted in terrestrial ecosystems and have not taken into account environmental variability....

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Main Authors:	Othman, Rashidi, Hanifah, Nurul Azlen, Shaharuddin, Ruhul Izzati
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Language:	English
Published:	Scientific Research Publishing Company 2014
Subjects:	QK Botany SB Plant culture TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
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spelling	iium-434782017-11-07T01:11:36Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/43478/ Aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies Othman, Rashidi Hanifah, Nurul Azlen Shaharuddin, Ruhul Izzati QK Botany SB Plant culture TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Over the past decade, ecologists have tried to determine how changes in species composition and diversity affect ecosystem structure and function. Until recently, the majorities of these studies have been conducted in terrestrial ecosystems and have not taken into account environmental variability. Now a days, humans tend to neglect water as part of main sources in our daily life. As time goes by with few exceptions, water has always been a natural resource that people take for granted. The idea of this research is to understand how aquatic plants can be used to detect and act as an indicator for polluted freshwater bodies. In this study, sixteen water samples were collected from four different places (Selangor, Perak, Pahang and Kelantan) where six different aquatic plant species were abundance and dominant. All the water samples were analyzed for six types of heavy metals which are Iron (Fe), Lead (Pb), Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn) and Nickel (Ni) and Manganese (Mn). All six different aquatic plant species which are Eichhornia crassipes, Hydrilla verticillata, Cabomba fuscata, Salvinia natans, Nelumbo nucifera and Pistia stratiotes exhibiting highly significant differences between aquatic plant species widespread, locations and the heavy metals content. This clearly demonstrates that freshwater environment with abundance of invasive macrophyte species can have an important influence and indication on the accumulation of heavy metals content. The importance of the interaction components emphasises that the changes in heavy metals composition are complex and the responses are not consistent across all aquatic plant species. Examination of the summarised data revealed that of the 6 macrophyte species analysed at all different locations, all exhibits as potential ecological indicator for unhealthy aquatic ecosystems or as phytoindicator for heavy metal contaminants either at low or high level contamination. Scientific Research Publishing Company 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/43478/1/RJAS.pdf Othman, Rashidi and Hanifah, Nurul Azlen and Shaharuddin, Ruhul Izzati (2014) Aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies. Research Journal of Applied Sciences, 9 (12). pp. 1225-1229. ISSN 1815-932X http://www.medwelljournals.com/abstract/?doi=rjasci.2014.1225.1229
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spellingShingle	QK Botany SB Plant culture TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Othman, Rashidi Hanifah, Nurul Azlen Shaharuddin, Ruhul Izzati Aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies
description	Over the past decade, ecologists have tried to determine how changes in species composition and diversity affect ecosystem structure and function. Until recently, the majorities of these studies have been conducted in terrestrial ecosystems and have not taken into account environmental variability. Now a days, humans tend to neglect water as part of main sources in our daily life. As time goes by with few exceptions, water has always been a natural resource that people take for granted. The idea of this research is to understand how aquatic plants can be used to detect and act as an indicator for polluted freshwater bodies. In this study, sixteen water samples were collected from four different places (Selangor, Perak, Pahang and Kelantan) where six different aquatic plant species were abundance and dominant. All the water samples were analyzed for six types of heavy metals which are Iron (Fe), Lead (Pb), Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn) and Nickel (Ni) and Manganese (Mn). All six different aquatic plant species which are Eichhornia crassipes, Hydrilla verticillata, Cabomba fuscata, Salvinia natans, Nelumbo nucifera and Pistia stratiotes exhibiting highly significant differences between aquatic plant species widespread, locations and the heavy metals content. This clearly demonstrates that freshwater environment with abundance of invasive macrophyte species can have an important influence and indication on the accumulation of heavy metals content. The importance of the interaction components emphasises that the changes in heavy metals composition are complex and the responses are not consistent across all aquatic plant species. Examination of the summarised data revealed that of the 6 macrophyte species analysed at all different locations, all exhibits as potential ecological indicator for unhealthy aquatic ecosystems or as phytoindicator for heavy metal contaminants either at low or high level contamination.
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author	Othman, Rashidi Hanifah, Nurul Azlen Shaharuddin, Ruhul Izzati
author_facet	Othman, Rashidi Hanifah, Nurul Azlen Shaharuddin, Ruhul Izzati
author_sort	Othman, Rashidi
title	Aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies
title_short	Aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies
title_full	Aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies
title_fullStr	Aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies
title_full_unstemmed	Aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies
title_sort	aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies
publisher	Scientific Research Publishing Company
publishDate	2014
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/43478/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/43478/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/43478/1/RJAS.pdf
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Aquatic plants as phytoindicator for heavy metals contaminant in polluted freshwater bodies

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