Nadia Tlili  , Salim Zarrouk  , Larbi Boughediri  , Fatah Chaoui  , 
    Bio-Indication of Air Quality in the Annaba City (East of Algeria),
    Research Journal of Biological Sciences,
    Volume 2,Issue 6,
    2007,
    Pages 617-619,
    ISSN 1815-8846,
    rjbsci.2007.617.619,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjbsci.2007.617.619)
    Abstract: The town of Annaba (East of Algeria) is characterized by a very polluted atmosphere, which became a dangerous for the fauna and the plants, the regional planning and environment ministry has installed an of air quality control network , baptized SAMASAFIA which is composed of 4 stations of air quality monitoring: Station 1 (Annaba), station 2 (El Bouni), station 3 (Sidi Amar), station 4 (Airoport). This study consists to use the pollen as bio-indicator of pollution. The pollen of <I>Malus</I> <I>communis </I>(Rosaceae) and <I>Phoenix</I> <I>dactylifera </I>(Arecaceae), have been exposed to air during 24 h inside the 4 stations of SAMASAFIA. The analysis of SAMASAFIA showed the existence of pollution caused especially by the dust (78 µ g m ³ 24 h <SUP>1</SUP>) notably at EL Bouni sites. The results showed after 24 h of exposure a considerable decrease in germination percentages at EL Bouni (87-37%) with a loss of 50%. This investigation has permited to combine data of the physico-chemical analysis of  network  SAMASAFIA  with  the  biological  data  of  the  pollen  viability  in  order  to estimate the air quality.
    Keywords: Bio-indication;atmospheric pollution;pollen viability;SAMASAFIA;network control;Algeria