Forest filter effect for polybrominated diphenyl ethers in a tropical watershed
| Autor: | Foday M. Jaward, Amy L. Stuart, Kayson S.C. Barrett |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Environmental Engineering
Watershed 0208 environmental biotechnology Polybrominated Biphenyls Drainage basin 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Forests 01 natural sciences Soil Polybrominated diphenyl ethers Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers Drainage Waste Management and Disposal 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Pollutant geography geography.geographical_feature_category Tropics General Medicine Plant litter 020801 environmental engineering Deposition (aerosol physics) Environmental chemistry Environmental science Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Journal of environmental management. 248 |
| ISSN: | 1095-8630 |
| Popis: | There is limited research characterizing the fates of persistent organic pollutants in tropical multi-use watersheds. This study aimed to evaluate the role of forests in the environmental fates of select polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) for a case study tropical drainage basin, the Rio Cobre watershed. Field samples of deposition, soil, litterfall and the atmosphere of a forest and nearby clearing were analyzed for the presence of the PBDEs (PBDE-28, 47, 99, 100, 153, 154, 183 and 209), which are routinely detected in the environment. The mean air and litterfall concentrations of these PBDEs were generally lower in the forest than in the clearing, whereas the deposition flux rate and soil concentrations were higher in the forest. The results suggest that the forest filtered the PBDEs by transferring them from the atmosphere to the soil, despite the tropical nature of the study site. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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