Prediction of the bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants in aquatic food webs

Chemosphere

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 645-651

  Voutsas, Epaminondas ^a   Magoulas, Kostis ^a   Tassios, Dimitrios ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Biomagnification; Food web; Octanol water partition coefficient

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CORRELATION METHODS; DISSOLUTION; FOOD PRODUCTS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

WATER POLLUTION;

CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; OCTANOL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; WATER;

BIOACCUMULATION;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; FOOD WEB; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; POLLUTANT; PREDICTION; ANIMAL; FOOD CHAIN; METABOLISM; WATER POLLUTANT;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0036021177     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(02)00144-3     Document Type: Article

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