Polychlorinated biphenyls in sediment

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Williams WA, RJ May (1997) Low-temperature microbial aerobic degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls in sediment. Environ Sci Technol 31 3491-3496. 

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Martin, D.B. and W.A. Hartman. 1985. Organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in sediment and fish from wetlands in the north central United States. Jour. Assoc. Off. Anal. Chem. 68 712-717. 

McMurtrey et al. [65] investigated the feasibility of determining polychlorinated biphenyls adsorbed on sediments by a procedure involving pyrolytic desorption at 1000°C, followed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. The procedure was capable of detecting polychlorinated biphenyl in sediment at the lOmg kgy1 level. 

Elder JF, Mattraw HC Jr. 1984. Accumulation of trace elements, pesticides, and polychlorinated biphenyls in sediments and the clam corbicula manilensis of the Apalachicola River, Florida. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 13 453-469. 

Hong, S.H., Yim, Y.H., Shim, Y.J., Oh, J.R., 2005. Congener-specific survey for polychlorinated biphenyls in sediments of industrialized bays in Korea Regional characteristics and pollution sources. Environ. Sci. Technol. 39, 7380-7388. 

Zhang, Q.H., Jiang, G.B., 2005. Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/furans and polychlorinated biphenyls in sediments and aquatic organisms from the Taihu Lake, China. Chemosphere 61, 314-322. 

Senthilkumar, K., Kannan, K., Subramanian, A.N., Tanabe, S., 2001. Accumulation of organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in sediments, aquatic organisms, birds, bird eggs and bat collected from South India. Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 8, 35-47. 

F. Maris, E. Noroozian, et al., Determination of polychlorinated biphenyls in sediment by on-line narrow-bore column liquid chroma-tography/capillary gas chromatography, J. High Res. Chromatogr. Chromatogr. Commun., 77 197-202 (1988). 

Recently, metapopulation models have been successfully applied to assess the risks of contaminants to aquatic populations. A metapopulation model to extrapolate responses of the aquatic isopod Asellus aquaticus as observed in insecticide-stressed mesocosms to assess its recovery potential in drainage ditches, streams, and ponds is provided by van den Brink et al. (2007). They estimated realistic pyrethroid concentrations in these different types of aquatic ecosystems by means of exposure models used in the European legislation procedure for pesticides. It appeared that the rate of recovery of Asellus in pyrethroid-stressed drainage ditches was faster in the field than in the isolated mesocosms. However, the rate of recovery in drainage ditches was calculated to be lower than that in streams and ponds (van den Brink et al. 2007). In another study, the effects of flounder foraging behavior and habitat preferences on exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls in sediments were assessed by Linkov et al. (2002) using a tractable individual-based metapopulation model. In this study, the use of a spatially and temporally explicit model reduced the estimate of risk by an order of magnitude as compared with a nonspatial model (Linkov et al. 2002). 

Bopp RF, Simpson HJ, Olsen CR, Kostyk N (1981) Polychlorinated biphenyls in sediments of the tidal Hudson river, New York. Environ Sci Technol 15, 210-216. 

Venkatesan MI, de Leon RP, van Geen A, Luoma SN (1999) Chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in sediment cores from San Francisco Bay. Marine Chem 64, 85-97. 

Piazza, R., Moumni, B., Bellucci, L., Frignani, M., Vecchiato, M., Giulliani, S., Romano, S., Zangrando, R., and Gambaro, A. (2009) Polychlorinated biphenyls in sediments of selected coastal environments in Northern Morocco. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 58 431 38. 

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