Investigation of heavy metals transportation from soil to the pine tree

Abstract

The Scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) is the most common tree in Lithuanian forests. Research on the impact of pollutants on pines allows us to evaluate pollutants on the major part of Lithuanian forests. Heavy metals (HMs) are among the major pollutants taken up by forest ecosystems in different ways; in their wet and dry from they come from local or distant sources of emission by being transported from seas alongside with nutrients and sea salt, by being washed up from the dead plants accumulating in the soil, and together with mineral particles brought by wind or water.[...].