Combining monitoring data and modeling identifies PAHs as emerging contaminants in the Arctic

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 9024-9029

  Laender, F De ^a   Hammer, J ^b   Hendriks, A J ^c   Soetaert, K ^d   Janssen, C R ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; BIOACCUMULATION MODELS; EMERGING CONTAMINANT; FOOD WEBS; FOSSIL FUEL BURNING; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; SEAWATER TEMPERATURE; TIME TRENDS; TISSUE CONCENTRATIONS; TOP PREDATOR; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SEAWATER; TISSUE; USER INTERFACES;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

FOSSIL FUEL; SEA WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOACCUMULATION; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FAUNA; FOOD WEB; FOSSIL FUEL; MARINE POLLUTION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PAH; PERSISTENCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

AQUATIC FAUNA; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOTA; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT; SEA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; INVERTEBRATES; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 80054681301     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202423f     Document Type: Article

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