Monitoring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Northeast Aegean Sea using Posidonia oceanica seagrass and synthetic passive samplers

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 338-344

  Apostolopoulou, Maria Venetia ^a   Monteyne, Els ^b   Krikonis, Konstantinos ^c   Pavlopoulos, Kosmas ^d   Roose, Patrick ^b   Dehairs, Frank ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Aegean sea; Alexandroupolis gulf; Mediterranean sea; PAHs; Passive sampling; Posidonia oceanica

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; HYDROCARBONS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLLUTION; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS;

AEGEAN SEA; ALEXANDROUPOLIS GULF; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PAHS; PASSIVE SAMPLING; POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

1 METHYLPHENANTHRENE; 2,6 DIMETHYLNAPHTHALENE; ACENAPHTHENE; ACENAPHTHYLENE; ANTHRACENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BENZO[B]FLUORANTHENE; BENZO[E]PYRENE; BENZO[GHI]PERYLENE; BENZO[K]FLUORANTHENE; BENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; BIPHENYL; CHRYSENE; DIBENZ[A,H]ANTHRACENE; FLUORANTHENE; FLUORENE; INDENO[1,2,3 CD]PYRENE; METHYLNAPHTHALENE; NAPHTHALENE; ORGANIC CARBON; PERYLENE; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE; PYRENE; SEA WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOINDICATOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); PAH; POLLUTION MONITORING; SAMPLING; SEAGRASS; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY WEIGHT; EVROS RIVER; LEAF SHEATH; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NORTHEAST AEGEAN SEA; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; POSIDONIA OCEANICA; RHIZOME; RIVER; SEA; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER SAMPLING; ALISMATALES; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES;

AEGEAN SEA; ALEXANDROUPOLIS GULF; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

ALISMATIDAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLANT LEAVES; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SEAWATER;

EID: 84924027191     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.07.051     Document Type: Article

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