2009-2010: REVITALIZATION OF URBAN ECOSYSTEMS THROUGH VASCULAR PLANTS: ASSESSMENT OF TECHNOGENIC POLLUTION IMPACT, Metaphor: GARDEN CITY. (Institute of Botany-BAS, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey)
The purpose of the project is to make an expert examination of accumulation of heavy metals and other toxic elements of industrial and transport emissions by various tree and bush species with the aim to find sorts capable to accumulate the maximal number of pollutants and to resist the effect of adverse environmental factors. The other purpose is to compare bioaccumulation of toxic elements in woody species in the areas of temperate-continental and subtropical Black Sea climate.