Distribution and trophic transfer of short-chain chlorinated paraffins in an aquatic ecosystem receiving effluents from a sewage treatment plant

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5529-5535

  Zeng, Lixi ^a   Wang, Thanh ^a   Wang, Pu ^a   Liu, Qian ^a   Han, Shanlong ^a   Yuan, Bo ^a   Zhu, Nali ^a   Wang, Yawei ^a   Jiang, Guibin ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; AQUATIC SPECIES; BEIJING , CHINA; BIOACCUMULATION FACTOR; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; CONGENER COMPOSITIONS; DRY WEIGHT; FOOD CHAIN; IN-SITU; LAKE WATERS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT LAYERS; SHORT-CHAIN CHLORINATED PARAFFINS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPHIC TRANSFER;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; CHLORINE; ECOSYSTEMS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; LAKES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PARAFFINS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

EFFLUENTS;

ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; PARAFFIN; SHORT CHAIN CHLORINATED PARAFFIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; AQUATIC ORGANISM; BIOACCUMULATION; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; DISCHARGE; EFFLUENT; FOOD CHAIN; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LIPID; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SLUDGE; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER DEPTH;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIODEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEM; EFFLUENT; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT;

ANIMALS; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; PARAFFIN; PLANKTON; QUALITY CONTROL; SEWAGE; TURTLES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 79959899123     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es200895b     Document Type: Article

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