Spatial monitoring of organohalogen compounds in surface water and sediments of a rural-urban river basin in Tanzania

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 447, Issue , 2013, Pages 186-197

  Hellar Kihampa, Harieth ^a,b   De Wael, Karolien ^a   Lugwisha, Esther ^c   Malarvannan, Govindan ^a   Covaci, Adrian ^a   Van Grieken, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Organochlorine pesticides; Pangani river basin; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Tanzania; Water and sediment quality

Indexed keywords

ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); RIVER BASINS; SEDIMENT QUALITY; TANZANIA;

CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; ISOMERS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE WATERS; WATERSHEDS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

CHLORPHENOTANE; DRINKING WATER; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; ORGANOHALOGEN DERIVATIVE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; SURFACE WATER;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DRINKING WATER; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOHALOGEN; PBDE; PCB; RIVER BASIN; SEDIMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOMER; LAND USE; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SOXHLET EXTRACTION; TANZANIA; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATERSHED;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HYDROCARBONS, HALOGENATED; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RIVERS; TANZANIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

TANZANIA;

EID: 84873464517     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.12.083     Document Type: Article

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