A comparison of Alpine emissions to forest soil and spruce needle loads for persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
| Autor: | G. Jakobi, Norbert Kräuchi, Primož Simončič, W. Levy, T. Magnani, Karl-Werner Schramm, Claudio A. Belis, Manfred Kirchner, Wolfgang Moche, M. Uhl, J. Nurmi-Legat, Ivo Offenthaler, Wilhelm Knoth, Peter Weiss, R. Bassan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Health
Toxicology and Mutagenesis Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins Toxicology chemistry.chemical_compound Soil Picea Pollutant Persistent organic pollutant Volatile Organic Compounds biology Altitude Alpine climate Picea abies Soil classification General Medicine biology.organism_classification Pollution Europe Plant Leaves chemistry Environmental chemistry Soil water Environmental science Environmental Pollutants Energy source Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987). 157(12) |
| ISSN: | 1873-6424 |
| Popis: | The project MONARPOP analysed the concentrations of semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in two important sink compartments, needles of Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) and forest soil from 40 remote Alpine forest sites in Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland. In the present study the load of PCDD/F, PCB, PBDE, PAH, HCB, HCH and DDT in the Alps calculated on the basis of measured data are compared with their estimated emissions in the Alpine region. It comes out that the masses of the studied pollutants stored in the forests are higher than the corresponding emissions in the Alpine area indicating that the Alps are a sink for POPs advected from surrounding areas. It is assumed that local emissions of PCDD/F and PAH deriving from biomass burning are probably underestimated and that the pool of these pollutants in the forests represents the accumulation over some decades. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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