Empirical estimation of pollution load and contamination levels of phthalate esters in agricultural soils from plastic film mulching in China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 239-247

  Chen, Yongshan ^b   Wu, Chunfa ^c   Zhang, Haibo ^a   Lin, Qiaoying ^b   Hong, Youwei ^b   Luo, Yongming ^a  

^a YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Contamination levels; Empirical estimation; Phthalate esters; Plastic film mulching; Pollution load; Scenario

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION LEVELS; EMPIRICAL ESTIMATIONS; PHTHALATE ESTER; PLASTIC FILM MULCHING; POLLUTION LOADS; SCENARIO;

AGRICULTURE; CONTAMINATION; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; ESTIMATION; PLASTIC FILMS; POLLUTION CONTROL; RECYCLING; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MULCH; PHTHALATE; PLASTIC; RECYCLING; SOIL POLLUTION;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; FUJIAN; JILIN; LIAONING; XIZANG;

EID: 84881660312     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-2119-8     Document Type: Article

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