Trophic magnification of PCBs and its relationship to the octanol-water partition coefficient

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3917-3924

  Walters, David M ^a   Mills, Marc A ^b   Cade, Brian S ^a   Burkard, Lawrence P ^c  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC SYSTEM; FIELD STUDIES; FOOD WEBS; LAKE HARTWELL; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MAGNIFICATION FACTORS; OCTANOL-WATER PARTITION COEFFICIENT; ORGANIC MATTER; PCB CONCENTRATION; PREDICTIVE POWER; RECALCITRANT COMPOUNDS; REGRESSION MODEL; SOUTH CAROLINA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STABLE ISOTOPES; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUPERFUND SITES; TROPHIC POSITION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; ECOLOGY; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

FRESH WATER; OCTANOL; ORGANIC MATTER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; STABLE ISOTOPE;

BIOACCUMULATION; FISH; FOOD WEB; HYDROPHOBICITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; ORGANIC MATTER; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PCB; PHYTOPLANKTON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOPLANKTON;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CALCULATION; COLD BLOODED; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HYDROPHOBICITY; LAKE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; RATING SCALE; SEDIMENT; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TEMPERATE RAIN FOREST; TROPHIC MAGNIFICATION FACTOR; TROPICS; UNITED STATES; WARM BLOODED; WATER PARTITION COEFFICIENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCTANOLS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOUTH CAROLINA; WATER; ZOOPLANKTON;

HARTWELL LAKE; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955526139     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103158s     Document Type: Article

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