Passive partitioning of polychlorinated biphenyls between seawater and zooplankton, a study comparing observed field distributions to equilibrium sorption experiments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 6703-6708

  Sobek, Anna ^a,b   Cornelissen, Gerard ^a,c   Tiselius, Peter ^d   Gustafsson, Örjan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^c NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^d GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LIPIDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SORPTION;

BIOMAGNIFICATION; PARTITION COEFFICIENTS; PHYTOPLANKTONS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

LIPID; ORGANIC CARBON; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; SEA WATER;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LIPIDS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SORPTION;

BIOACCUMULATION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PCB; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; SORPTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ADSORPTION; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; FIELD STUDY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; SAMPLING; SWEDEN; ZOOPLANKTON;

ABSORPTION; ANIMALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON ISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; KINETICS; LINEAR MODELS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEAWATER; ZOOPLANKTON;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GULLMAR FJORD; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; VASTRA GOTALAND;

EID: 33750864170     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061248c     Document Type: Article

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