Animal hair as biological indicator for heavy metal pollution in urban and rural areas

Animal hair is a good biomonitoring tool for heavy metals assessment and reflects the content of heavy metals in the forage and soil. Heavy metals Fe, Mn, Co and Ni as well as toxic metals Cd and Pb were determined in goat, sheep and camel hair, forage and soil collected from four different environm...

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Published in:Environmental monitoring and assessment 2005-11, Vol.110 (1-3), p.41-53
Main Authors: NAGEEB RASHED, M, SOLTAN, M. E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis methods
Animal, plant and microbial ecology
Animals
Applied ecology
Applied sciences
Biological and medical sciences
Biomonitoring
Cadmium
Camelus
Cities
Cluster Analysis
Desert animals
Earth sciences
Earth, ocean, space
Ecotoxicology, biological effects of pollution
Effects of pollution and side effects of pesticides on vertebrates
Egypt
Engineering and environment geology. Geothermics
Environmental monitoring
Environmental Monitoring - methods
Environmental Pollutants - analysis
Environmental Pollution - analysis
Exact sciences and technology
Forage
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Goats
Hair
Hair - chemistry
Heavy metals
Lead
Mammalia
Metal concentrations
Metals
Metals, Heavy - analysis
Pasture
Plants - chemistry
Pollution
Pollution, environment geology
Rural areas
Sheep
Soil - analysis
Soil and sediments pollution
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Summary:Animal hair is a good biomonitoring tool for heavy metals assessment and reflects the content of heavy metals in the forage and soil. Heavy metals Fe, Mn, Co and Ni as well as toxic metals Cd and Pb were determined in goat, sheep and camel hair, forage and soil collected from four different environmental urban and rural regions. These regions are Aswan city farms, Allaqi desert pasture, Kalabsha farms and Halaiub desert pasture at far south of Egypt. The results reveal that sheep hair contains the highest levels of Fe and Mn (879 and 55 microg/g, respectively), camel hair contains the highest Pb, whereas for goat Cd and Ni were the highest. Heavy metal concentrations in the studied hair reflect the presence of these metals in the surrounding forage and soil and vary from one area to another, and give knowledge of pollution in the area. Correlation statistics analysis and cluster analysis show a good and significant value between metals in hair and plants.
ISSN:0167-6369
1573-2959
DOI:10.1007/s10661-005-6288-8