Organochlorine pesticides and PCBs in fish from lakes of the Tibetan Plateau and the implications

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2310-2316

  Yang, Ruiqiang ^a   Wang, Yawei ^a   Li, An ^b   Zhang, Qinghua ^a   Jing, Chuanyong ^a   Wang, Thanh ^a   Wang, Pu ^a   Li, Yingming ^a   Jiang, Guibin ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine lakes; Indian monsoon; Long range atmospheric transport; OCPs; POPs

Indexed keywords

ALPINE LAKES; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DICHLORODIPHENYLTRICHLOROETHANE; FISH MUSCLES; GLOBAL TRANSPORT; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANES; HIGH MOUNTAINS; INDIAN MONSOON; JET STREAMS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PCB CONCENTRATION; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; FISH; LAKES; LANDFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RIVER POLLUTION;

LAKE POLLUTION;

CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DDT; HCH; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; METABOLITE; MONSOON; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CANADA; CHINA; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FISH; LAKE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; SEA LEVEL; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION; WINTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FRESH WATER; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; MUSCLES; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TIBET; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WIND;

CANADA; CHINA; EUROPE; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953293048     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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