Investigation of organochlorine pesticides from the Indus Basin, Pakistan: Sources, air-soil exchange fluxes and risk assessment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 497-498, Issue , 2014, Pages 113-122

  Sultana, Jawairia ^a   Syed, Jabir Hussain ^b   Mahmood, Adeel ^a   Ali, Usman ^a   Rehman, Muhammad Yasir Abdur ^a   Malik, Riffat Naseem ^a   Li, Jun ^b   Zhang, Gan ^b  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Agricultural soils; Air soil exchange; Indus Basin; Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs); Risk assessment; Source apportionment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; DISEASES; HEALTH RISKS; PESTICIDES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; AGRICULTURAL SOILS; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; INDUS BASIN; INDUS BASIN , PAKISTAN; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; AIR POLLUTANT; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; PESTICIDE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; CANCER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DDT; FUGACITY; HCH; HEALTH RISK; ORGANOCHLORINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SOIL EXCHANGE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANCER RISK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HEALTH HAZARD; PAKISTAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

INDUS BASIN; PAKISTAN;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; PAKISTAN; PESTICIDES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84905757878     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.07.066     Document Type: Article

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