Congener profiles of polychlorinated biphenyls in core sediments of Sunderban mangrove wetland (N.E. India) and their ecotoxicological significance

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 153, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 221-234

  Binelli, Andrea ^a   Sarkar, Santosh Kumar ^b   Chatterjee, Mousumi ^b   Riva, Consuelo ^a   Parolini, Marco ^a   Bhattacharya, Bhaskar Deb ^b   Bhattacharya, Asok Kumar ^b   Satpathy, Kamala Kanta ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^c INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Estuary; Organochlorine compounds; River Ganges; Sediments

Indexed keywords

BAY OF BENGAL; CANADIAN COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF THE ENVIRONMENTS; CHLORINATED CONGENERS; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; COMMON SOURCES; CONGENER PROFILES; DRY WEIGHTS; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIORS; HYDROLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; IN CORES; LOWER LIMITS; ORGANOCHLORINE COMPOUNDS; POINT SOURCES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SEDIMENT QUALITY GUIDELINES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TOTAL LOADS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; COASTAL ZONE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MANGROVE; PCB; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HYDROLOGY; MANGROVE; MARINE SPECIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; URBANIZATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WETLAND;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDIA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; WETLANDS;

ASIA; BAY OF BENGAL; EURASIA; GANGES RIVER; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 67349245004     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0351-1     Document Type: Article

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