Organochlorine pollutants in Western Antarctic Peninsula sediments and benthic deposit feeders

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5643-5651

  Zhang, Lin ^a,d   Dickhut, Rebecca ^b   Demaster, Dave ^c   Pohl, Kari ^a   Lohmann, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF SEDIMENTS; DEPOSIT FEEDING; LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; ORGANOCHLORINE POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); POREWATER CONCENTRATIONS; WESTERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA;

COAL TAR; DEPOSITS; ECOLOGY; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SEDIMENTS;

BLACK CARBON; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOOD WEB; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANOCHLORINE; PHASE EQUILIBRIUM; POLLUTION MONITORING; POREWATER; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; WINTER;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BENTHIC FAUNA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FOOD WEB; POLLUTANT; PREDICTION; SEDIMENT; WINTER;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUPHAUSIACEA; FOOD CHAIN; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HOLOTHURIA; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOOT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EUPHAUSIACEA; HOLOTHUROIDEA;

EID: 84878634329     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303553h     Document Type: Article

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