Enantioselective degradation of organochlorine pesticides in background soils: Variability in field and laboratory studies

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4965-4971

  Kurt Karakus, Perihan Binnur ^a   Stroud, Jacqueline L ^b   Bidleman, Terry ^a   Semple, Kirk T ^b   Jantunen, Liisa ^a   Jones, Kevin C ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; PH EFFECTS; SOILS;

ANTHROPOGENIC COMPOUNDS; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHIRAL ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; SITU CONDITIONS;

PESTICIDES;

CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE;

BIODEGRADATION; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; PESTICIDES; PH EFFECTS; SOILS;

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHLORDANE; DDT; FIELD METHOD; GRASSLAND SOIL; HCH; LABORATORY METHOD; NATURAL ATTENUATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; WOODLAND;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DEGRADATION KINETICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENANTIOMER; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; FOREST; GRASSLAND; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC MATTER PRODUCTION; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; SOIL ANALYSIS;

HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; PESTICIDES; SOIL POLLUTANTS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 34547187624     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0620787     Document Type: Article

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