An integrated approach to model the biomagnification of organic pollutants in aquatic food webs of the Yangtze Three Gorges Reservoir ecosystem using adapted pollution scenarios

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 7009-7026

  Scholz Starke, Björn ^a   Ottermanns, Richard ^a   Rings, Ursula ^a   Floehr, Tilman ^a   Hollert, Henner ^a   Hou, Junli ^b   Li, Bo ^c   Wu, Ling Ling ^d   Yuan, Xingzhong ^c   Strauch, Katrin ^a   Wei, Hu ^e   Norra, Stefan ^e   Holbach, Andreas ^e   Westrich, Bernhard ^f   Schäffer, Andreas ^a   Roß Nickoll, Martina ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute   (China)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

AQUATOX framework; Bioaccumulation; Biomagnification; Environmental risk assessment; Integrated environmental modeling; Regionalization; Simulation; Three Gorges Reservoir; Yangtze food webs

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BATHYMETRY; BIOACCUMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOOD WEB; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PARAMETERIZATION; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PROJECT DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOODING; FOOD CHAIN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RIVER; SEWAGE; STATISTICS; WATER POLLUTANT;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOODS; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PESTICIDES; RIVERS; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHINA; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84884699683     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-1504-5     Document Type: Article

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