Monitoring of PCDD/Fs in a mountain forest by means of active and passive sampling

Environmental Research

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 300-306

  Levy, W ^a   Henkelmann, B ^a   Pfister, G ^a   Kirchner, M ^a   Jakobi, G ^a   Niklaus, A ^a   Kotalik, J ^a   Bernhoft S ^a   Fischer, N ^a   Schramm, K W ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active sampling; Passive sampling; PCDD F; SPMDs; Spruce needles

Indexed keywords

DIBENZOFURAN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN;

MONTANE FOREST; OPTIMIZATION; PCDD; PCDF; POLLUTION MONITORING;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPRUCE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BENZOFURANS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GERMANY; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; PERMEABILITY; PICEA; PLANT LEAVES; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

PICEA;

EID: 35148849828     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2007.05.018     Document Type: Article

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