The main objective of my work was to evaluate if it is possible to use the honey bee - Apis mellifera as a bioindicator of the environmental contamination by heavy metals. Two areas were being compared. The first one was more affected by emission (The Capital city of Prague) and the second one was less hit by emission (The Highlands). During the course of three years five samples of bee honey were taken from each area. The analysis was made to show how much cadmium, lead and mercury the samples contained. In most samples higher concentration of these chemicals were dealt out in honey taken from the more polluted area. Although not all the concentrations of heavy metals in honey reflect the emission burden of the examined areas. It would be necessary to take samples from a larger number of areas in order to confirm the conclusion that bee honey is a suitable bioindicator of the environmental contamination by heavy metals.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:49085 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | KOS, Václav |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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