Biomagnetic Monitoring of Particulate Matter: In the Indo-Burma Hotspot Region

Air pollution originating from rapid industrialization, urbanization, population growth and economic development has disturbed the urban ecosystems of ecologically sensitive regions like the Indo-Burma hot spot, and they are under severe air pollution stress with limited resources to collect data on what is happening. Air pollutants comprised of both particulate matter (PM) and gaseous pollutants may cause adverse health effects in human, affect plant life and impact the global environment by changing the atmosphere of the earth. It is now well established that urban PM may also contain magnetic particles along with other air pollutants. Biomonitoring of PM through magnetic properties, known as biomagnetic monitoring, measures the magnetic parameters of dust loaded plant leaves, giving a new opportunity to monitor. Compared to existing conventional technologies, biomagnetic monitoring is an eco-friendly technique perfect in urban areas.

Biomagnetic Monitoring of Particulate Matter reviews the issues with PM and the potential of these methods to on tropical vegetation on a variety of flora which represent the biodiversity of the Indo-Burma Hot Spot.

Bio-magnetic Monitoring of Particulate Matter gives a comprehensive overview of the issue of particulate pollution and monitoringCases of magnetic biomonitoring across different environments are included to demonstrate this emerging technique as a way to measure particulate pollutionCoverage includes a comparison to other techniques as well as why it works well ecological diverse developing areas which are data scarce, like the Indo-Burma Hot SpotA review of the detrimental health impacts of Particulate Matter reinforces the importance for this type of data to be available universally

Chapter 1 Particulate matter (PM) and its size fractionation Chapter 2 Adverse health impacts of particulate matter (PM) Chapter 3 Monitoring of ambient particulate matter (PM) in South Asia with special reference to an Indo-Burma hot spot region Chapter 4 Management approaches of PM: Existing technologies and advantages of bio-magnetic monitoring methodology Chapter 5 Biomagnetic monitoring of particulate pollution through plant leaves: An overview Chapter 6 Case studies on bio-magnetic monitoring of particulates through two tropical plant species. Chapter 7 Biomonitoring of particulate pollution using magnetic properties of Ficus bengalensis: a keystone species Chapter 8 Biomonitoring of particulate pollution through magnetic properties of important horticultural plant species Chapter 9 Biomonitoring of particulate matter using magnetic properties (2-D magnetization) of economically important tropical plant species Chapter 10 Biomagnetic monitoring of particulate matter (PM) through an invasive plant Lantana camara