Screening for Stockholm Convention persistent organic pollutants in the Bosna River (Bosnia and Herzogovina)

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1671-1683

  Harman, Christopher ^a   Grung, Merete ^a   Djedjibegovic, Jasmina ^b   Marjanovic, Aleksandra ^b   Sober, Miroslav ^b   Sinanovic, Kemo ^b   Fjeld, Eirik ^a   Rognerud, Sigurd ^a   Ranneklev, Sissel Brit ^a   Larssen, Thorjørn ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

Balkans; Contaminated sediments; Passive sampling; River monitoring; SPMDs

Indexed keywords

BALKANS; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; PASSIVE SAMPLING; RIVER MONITORING; SPMDS;

CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; CONTAMINATION; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PESTICIDE;

BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOTA; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PAH; PBDE; PCB; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; STOCKHOLM CONVENTION;

ARTICLE; BIOTA; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; COMBUSTION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SEDIMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; RIVER; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; WATER POLLUTION;

BALKANS; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA;

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RIVERS; SWEDEN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874449584     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2659-0     Document Type: Article

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