Dioxins, PCBs, and HCB in soil and peat profiles from a pristine boreal catchment

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2518-2525

  Bergknut, Magnus ^a   Laudon, Hjalmar ^b   Wiberg, Karin ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal catchment; Diffuse pollution; Dioxin; HOCs; PCB; PCDD F

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FORESTRY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PEAT; POLLUTION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS;

BOREAL CATCHMENTS; DIFFUSE POLLUTION; DIOXIN; HOCS; PCDD/F;

SOIL SURVEYS;

DIOXIN; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ARTICLE; POLLUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTANT;

DIOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 77956221413     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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