Has the burden and distribution of PCBs and PBDEs changed in european background soils between 1998 and 2008? Implications for sources and processes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 7291-7297

  Schuster, Jasmin K ^a   Gioia, Rosalinda ^a   Moeckel, Claudia ^a,b   Agarwal, Tripti ^c   Bucheli, Thomas D ^c   Breivik, Knut ^d,e   Steinnes, Eiliv ^f   Jones, Kevin C ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^f NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DATA SETS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; PRIMARY SOURCES; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER CONTENTS; SOURCE-RECEPTOR RELATIONSHIPS; SURFACE SOIL; TEMPORAL TRENDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ETHERS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PBDE; PCB; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FRACTIONATION; RECYCLING; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTION; SURFACE SOIL;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREAT BRITAIN; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; NORWAY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

NORWAY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 80052203036     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es200961p     Document Type: Article

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