Pesticide residues and heavy metals in the Evros river delta, N.E. Greece

Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 33-44

  Angelidis, M O ^a   Albanis, T A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Pesticide residues; Sediment pollution; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

EVROS RIVER DELTA; GREECE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; WETLANDS;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; HEAVY METALS; PESTICIDES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0030019082     PISSN: 02772248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02772249609358272     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. J. M. Wood, Biological cycles for toxic elements in the environment. Science, 183, 1049-1052 (1974).
2. M. Kawano, S. Matsushita, T. Inoue, H. Tanaka and R. Tatsukawa, Biconcentration and residue patterns of chlordane compounds in marine animals: invertebrates, fishes, mammals and seabirds, Environ. Sci. Technol., 22, 792-797 (1988).
3. Ministry of the Environment, Greece. Programme of delineation of the Ramsar Treaty wetlands; The wetland of Evros delta, 1986.
4. K. G. Ouzounis, Study of heavy metals and chlorinated hydrocarbons in the river Evros. Prefecture of Evros, Greece, (in greek), 1992.
5. General State Laboratory (Dept. of Alexandroupolis). Quality of the river Evros water (1988-1993). Congress of the Technical Chamber of Greece "River Evros, the meeting of three nations" (in press) (1994).
6. National Statistical Bureau of Greece., Ministry of Agriculture, Paper EOP-1, (1988-89).
7. T. A. Albanis, T. G. Danis and M. K. Kourgia, Transportation of pesticides in estuaries of Axios, Loudias and Aliakmon rivers (Thermaikos gulf), in press in Sci. Total Environ, 156 (1), 11-29 (1994).
8. Prefecture of Evros, Data of agriculture, in the Prefecture of Evros (1993).
9. HMSO, Chlorophenoxy acidic herbicides, trichlorobenzoic acid, chlorophenols, triazines and glyphosate in water, HMSO Publication Centre, London, (1985).
10. G. Durand and D. Barcelo, Liquid chromatographic analysis of chlorotriazine herbicides and its degradation products in water samples with photodiode array detection. I. Evaluation of two liquid-liquid extraction methods, Toxicol. Environ. Chem., 25, 1-11 (1989).
11. HMSO, The determination of carbamates, thiocarbamates related compounds and ureas in water, HMSO Publication Centre, London, (1985).
12. DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Manual of pesticide Residue Analysis, Method S-6A, eds. H. P. Thier and H. Zeumer, VCH, Publishers, Weinheim, (1987).
13. G. Durand, R. Forteza and D. Barcolo, Determination of chlorotriazine herbicides, their dealkylated degradation products and organophosporus pesticides in soil samples by means of two different clean-up procedures, Chromatographia, 28, 597-604 (1989).
14. D. F. Gruka, F. L. Shore and Shu-Teh Pan, Singe-laboratory validation of EPA method 8150 for determination of chlorinated herbicides in hazardous waster" J. Assoc. Off. Anal. Chem., 69, 970-975 (1986).
15. A. J. Cessna, R. Grover, L. A. Kerr and M. L. Alderd, A multiresidue method for analysis and verification of several herbicides in water. J. Agric. Food Chem., 33, 504-507 (1985).
16. EPA, Method 505, Analysis of organochlorine pesticides and commercial PCBs in water by micro-extraction and Gas Chromatography, EPA-600/4-88/039, Cincinnati, (1988).
17. R. Chester, W. M. Kujoda, A. Thomas and J. Jones Pollution reconnaissance in stream sediments using non-residual trace metals. Envir. Pollut. (Series B), 10, 213-238 (1985).
18. M. L. Jackson, Soil Chemical Analysis Prentice Hall Inc., N J (1958).
19. M. O. Angelidis and A. I. Athanasiadis, Pollution mechanisms in a Ramsar wetland, delta of the river Evros, Greece. Aquatic Sciences (in press).
20. R. Frank and L. I. Logan, Pesticide and industrial chemical residues at the mouth of the Grand, Saugeen and Thames rivers, Ontario, Canada 1981-85, Arch Environ. Contam Toxicol., 17, 741-754 (1988).
21. S. Galassi and V, Leoni Atrazina e simazina nelle acque del Po e dei suo affluenti, Acqua Aria, 3, 327-331 (1988).
22. E. Benfenati, P. Tremolada, L. Chippetta, R. Frassanito, G. Bassi, N. Di Toro, R. Fanelli and G. Stella. Simultaneous analysis of 50 pesticides in water samples by solid-phase extraction and GC-MS, Chemosphere, 21, 1411-1421 (1990).
23. D. Barcelo, Occurrence, handling and chromatographic determination of pesticides in the aquatic environment, Analyst, 116, 681-689 (1991).
24. W. E. Pereira and C. E. Rostad, Occurrence, distributions and transport of herbicides and their degradation products in the lower Mississippi river and its tributaries, Environ. Sci. Technol., 24, 1400-1406 (1990).
25. R. Breder, H. G. Nurnberg, J. Golimovski and M. Stoeppler, Toxic metal level in the river Rhine, In H. W. Nurnberg (Ed) Pollutants and their ecotoxicological significance, John Wiley & sons, Chichester, (1985).