Sources and ecological risk assessment of PAHs in surface sediments from Bohai Sea and northern part of the Yellow Sea, China

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 485-490

  Li, Jiafu ^a   Dong, Han ^a   Zhang, Dahai ^a   Han, Bin ^a,b   Zhu, Chenjian ^a   Liu, Shaopeng ^a   Liu, Xiangmin ^a   Ma, Qianyao ^a   Li, Xianguo ^a  

^a Ocean University of China   (China)

^b FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); Risk assessment; Sediment; Source; Toxic equivalent quantity (TEQ)

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACENE; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; COAL COMBUSTION; COKE OVENS; ECOLOGY; LINEAR REGRESSION; ORGANIC CARBON; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEDIMENTS; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS); SEDIMENT QUALITY GUIDELINE (SQGS); SOURCE; TOXIC EQUIVALENT QUANTITIES; TOXIC EQUIVALENTS TEQ; VEHICULAR EMISSION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACENAPHTHYLENE; ANTHRACENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BENZO[B]FLUORANTHENE; BENZO[GHI]PERYLENE; BENZO[K]FLUORANTHENE; BENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; CARCINOGEN; CHRYSENE; COAL; COKE; DIBENZ[A,H]ANTHRACENE; FLUORANTHENE; FLUORENE; INDENO[1,2,3 CD]PYRENE; NAPHTHALENE; ORGANIC CARBON; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE; EXHAUST GAS; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE; PHENANTHRENE DERIVATIVE; PYRENE DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

CARCINOGEN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MARINE POLLUTION; MARINE SEDIMENT; PAH; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHINA; COMBUSTION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXHAUST GAS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT;

BOHAI SEA; CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW SEA;

CHINA; COAL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORENES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LINEAR MODELS; PHENANTHRENES; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; PYRENES; RISK ASSESSMENT; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84931570255     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.05.002     Document Type: Article

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