Occurrence, possible sources, and temporal trends of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans in water and sediment from the lower Yangtze River basin, Jiangsu and Shanghai areas of Eastern China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 8751-8762

  Nie, Zhiqiang ^a   Tang, Zhenwu ^b   Zhu, Xiaohua ^c   Yang, Yufei ^a   Fu, Haihui ^a   Die, Qingqi ^a   Wang, Qi ^a   Huang, Qifei ^a  

^a CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR GEOANALYSIS   (China)

Author keywords

Lower reaches of Yangtze River; PCDD PCDF; Risk; Sources; Temporal trends; Total Organic Carbon (TOC)

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; RIVER BASIN; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER COLUMN;

CHINA;

EID: 84891159922     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-1832-5     Document Type: Article

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