A comparison of Alpine emissions to forest soil and spruce needle loads for persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3185-3191

  Belis, C A ^a   Offenthaler, I ^b   Uhl, M ^b   Nurmi Legat, J ^b   Bassan, R ^c   Jakobi, G ^d   Kirchner, M ^d   Knoth, W ^e   Krauchi N ^f   Levy, W ^d   Magnani, T ^a   Moche, W ^b   Schramm, K W ^c   Simoncic P ^g   Weiss, P ^b  

^a Regional Agency for Environmental Protection of Lombardia   (Italy)

^b Umweltbundesamt GmbH   (Austria)

^c Regional Agency for Environmental Prevention and Protection of Veneto   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e German Federal Environmental Agency Bad Elster Branch   (Germany)

^f SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^g SLOVENIAN FORESTRY INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Alps; Forests; Mass balance; Needles; POPs; Soil

Indexed keywords

ALPINE AREAS; ALPINE REGIONS; ALPS; AUSTRIA; BIOMASS-BURNING; FOREST SITES; FOREST SOILS; FORESTS; GERMANY; LOCAL EMISSIONS; MASS BALANCE; MEASURED DATA; NORWAY SPRUCE (PICEA ABIES [L.] KARST.); PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; SEMIVOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SLOVENIA; SPRUCE NEEDLES; SWITZERLAND;

NEEDLES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LINDANE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

BIOMASS BURNING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOREST SOIL; MASS BALANCE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SOIL EMISSION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIOMASS; CONIFER NEEDLE; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST SOIL; GERMANY; ITALY; NORWAY SPRUCE; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SLOVENIA; SOIL POLLUTION; SWITZERLAND;

ALTITUDE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EUROPE; PICEA; PLANT LEAVES; SOIL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; GERMANY; ITALY; SLOVENIA; SWITZERLAND;

PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 74249117781     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.05.035     Document Type: Article

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