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Contents
1 General Aspects of Environmental Degradation vs. Technological
Development Progression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Biljana Balabanova
2 Spatial Series and Multivariate Analysis in Assessing the
Essential (Cu and Zn) and Toxic (As, Cd, Cr, Co, Hg, Ni and Pb)
Metals Linked with Health Risk and Ecological Effects of
Atmospheric Deposition by Using Bryophyte Moss as
Bioindicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Shaniko Allajbeu, Lirim Bekteshi, Pranvera Lazo, Flora Qarri,
and Trajče Stafilov
3 Moss Biomonitoring of Air Pollution Around the Coal Mine
and Bitola Thermoelectric Power Plant, North Macedonia . . . . . . . . 75
Trajče Stafilov, Robert Šajn, Mila Arapčeska, and Ivan Kungulovski
4 Lichens as the Main Indicator in Biological Monitoring of Air
Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Svetlana Ristić, Robert Šajn, and Slaviša Stamenković
5 Proposing Chemometric Tool for Efficacy Surface Dust Deposition
Tracking in Moss Tissue Cross Bioindication Process of Metals in
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Biljana Balabanova, Maja Lazarova, Blažo Boev,
Lucian Barbu- Tudoran, and Maria Suciu
6 Evidence for Atmospheric Depositions Using Attic Dust, Spatial
Mapping and Multivariate Stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Robert Šajn, Biljana Balabanova, Trajče Stafilov,
and Claudiu Tănăselia