Effectiveness of Plants and Green Infrastructure Utilization in Ambient Particulate Matter Removal

Overview

Journal Environ Sci Eur

Publisher Springer

Specialty Environmental Health

Date 2021 Oct 4

PMID 34603905

Citations 7

Authors

Katarzyna Wroblewska

Byoung Ryong Jeong

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Abstract

Air pollution is regarded as an increasingly threatening, major environmental risk for human health. Seven million deaths are attributed to air pollution each year, 91% of which is due to particulate matter. Vegetation is a xenobiotic means of removing particulate matter. This review presents the mechanisms of PM capture by plants and factors that influence PM reduction in the atmosphere. Vegetation is ubiquitously approved as a PM removal solution in cities, taking various forms of green infrastructure. This review also refers to the effectiveness of plant exploitation in GI: trees, grasslands, green roofs, living walls, water reservoirs, and urban farming. Finally, methods of increasing the PM removal by plants, such as species selection, biodiversity increase, PAH-degrading phyllospheric endophytes, transgenic plants and microorganisms, are presented.

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