Occurrence of priority organic pollutants in Strymon river catchment, Greece: Inland, transitional, and coastal waters

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3556-3567

  Litskas, V D ^a   Dosis, I G ^a   Karamanlis, X N ^a   Kamarianos, A P ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Environmental quality; EU guidelines; Monitoring; Surface water

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

CATCHMENT; COASTAL ZONE; DDT; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; FLUORANTHENE; GUIDELINE; NAPHTHALENE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PAH; PCB; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PYRENE; SAMPLING; SURFACE WATER; TRIBUTARY; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DANGEROUS GOODS; GREECE; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY;

GREECE; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

AEGEAN SEA; CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; KERKINI LAKE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SERRAI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA]; STRUMA RIVER;

EID: 84865569520     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-012-0917-x     Document Type: Article

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