Twenty years later - Atrazine concentrations in selected coastal waters of the Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 70, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 112-118

  Nödler, Karsten ^a   Licha, Tobias ^a   Voutsa, Dimitra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Atrazine; Baltic Sea; Dardanelles; Mediterranean Sea; Terbuthylazine

Indexed keywords

AEGEAN SEA; BALTIC SEA; DARDANELLES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TERBUTHYLAZINE;

HERBICIDES;

OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

2 AMINO 4 CHLORO 6 ETHYLAMINO 1,3,5 TRIAZINE; ATRAZINE; DEETHYLATRAZINE; SEA WATER; TERBUTYLAZINE;

ATRAZINE; COASTAL WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MARINE POLLUTION; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TERBUTHYLAZINE; TRIAZINE; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; POLLUTION MONITORING; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ATRAZINE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

ADRIATIC SEA; AEGEAN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CANAKKALE [TURKEY]; CATALONIA; DARDANELLES; ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN; THERMAIKOS GULF; TURKEY;

EID: 84877798612     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.02.018     Document Type: Article

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