Tree bark as a passive air sampler to indicate atmospheric polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in southeastern China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 7668-7677

  Fu, Xiaoxu ^a   Wang, Junxia ^a   Zhou, Xiaoyu ^a   Deng, Jingjing ^a   Liu, Yangcheng ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Liu, Lili ^a   Dong, Liang ^b   Lin, Kuangfei ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b National Center for Environmental Analysis and Measurements   (China)

Author keywords

E waste; Passive sampler; PBDEs; Tree bark; Wenling

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); PBDE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SITE INVESTIGATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TREE;

CHINA;

CINNAMOMUM CAMPHORA; SALIX; SALIX BABYLONICA;

AIR POLLUTANT; BROMINATED HYDROCARBON; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE;

AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; BARK; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CINNAMOMUM CAMPHORA; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; PINE; PROCEDURES; WILLOW;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CHINA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CINNAMOMUM CAMPHORA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; PINUS; PLANT BARK; SALIX;

EID: 84902543262     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-2650-0     Document Type: Article

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