In recent decades, the scientific community has put the spotlight on the severe impacts that environmental stressors are producing on ecosystem functioning worldwide [...].
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- * Air quality was assessed using moss and lichen bags, and mercury levels were measured with an AMA 254 analyzer, alongside health risk evaluations based on provisional tolerable intake and hazard quotients.
- * The study aimed to understand how mercury pollution relates to landscape features around beehives and to assess the transfer of contaminants from bees to bee products, focusing on health risks for consumers.
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