PMID- 15952370
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20050912
LR  - 20240109
IS  - 0013-936X (Print)
IS  - 0013-936X (Linking)
VI  - 39
IP  - 10
DP  - 2005 May 15
TI  - Long-term fate of polychlorinated biphenyls and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons 
      in an agricultural soil.
PG  - 3663-70
AB  - Laboratory studies are useful for understanding the behavior of persistent 
      organic pollutants (POPs) in soil, although such investigations do not always 
      relate directly to field conditions. Outdoor lysimeter studies may be used to 
      overcome this problem. This work aimed to investigate the behavior of two 
      polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) (fluoranthene and benzo[a]pyrene) and two 
      polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs; congeners 28 and 52) in soil, using lysimeters 
      established in 1990 atthe Agrosphere Institute (Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, 
      Germany). The two PAHs were in one lysimeter, and the PCBs were in a second 
      lysimeter. Afurther aim of the study was to determine soil half-lives for each of 
      the contaminants. The overall decline in PAH concentrations was considerably 
      greater than forthe PCBs over the 152 month study. The PCBs exhibited greater 
      chemical extractability than the PAHs and were demonstrated to have migrated 
      through the soil column to a greater extent than the PAHs. Loss of PCBs from 
      surface soil was not considered to have been congener specific for the two PCB 
      congeners in this study. The two PAHs varied in their extents of total loss and 
      movement through the soil column. Soil half-lives were determined as 10.9 y for 
      [12C]PCB 28, 11.2 yr for [12C]PCB 52, 2.7 yr for benzoqpyrene, and 32 d (phase 1) 
      to 38 yr (phase 2) for fluoranthene. These are shown to disagree with some 
      previous estimates of POP half-lives in soil, suggesting that previous studies 
      underestimated persistence by 10-fold or more.
FAU - Doick, Kieron J
AU  - Doick KJ
AD  - Department of Environmental Science, Institute of Environmental and Natural 
      Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom.
FAU - Klingelmann, Eva
AU  - Klingelmann E
FAU - Burauel, Peter
AU  - Burauel P
FAU - Jones, Kevin C
AU  - Jones KC
FAU - Semple, Kirk T
AU  - Semple KT
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - Environ Sci Technol
JT  - Environmental science & technology
JID - 0213155
RN  - 0 (Carbon Radioisotopes)
RN  - 0 (Fluorenes)
RN  - 0 (Soil)
RN  - 0 (Soil Pollutants)
RN  - 3417WMA06D (Benzo(a)pyrene)
RN  - 360UOL779Z (fluoranthene)
RN  - 7440-44-0 (Carbon)
RN  - 844ODP31Q0 (2,4,4'-trichlorobiphenyl)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Agriculture
MH  - Benzo(a)pyrene/*analysis/metabolism
MH  - Beta vulgaris/chemistry/metabolism
MH  - Carbon/analysis/metabolism
MH  - Carbon Radioisotopes/analysis/metabolism
MH  - Crops, Agricultural/*chemistry/metabolism
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Fluorenes/*analysis/metabolism
MH  - Half-Life
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/*analysis/metabolism
MH  - Soil/analysis
MH  - Soil Pollutants/analysis/metabolism
MH  - Triticum/chemistry/metabolism
MH  - Vegetables/chemistry/metabolism
EDAT- 2005/06/15 09:00
MHDA- 2005/09/13 09:00
CRDT- 2005/06/15 09:00
PHST- 2005/06/15 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/09/13 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/06/15 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1021/es048181i [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Technol. 2005 May 15;39(10):3663-70. doi: 10.1021/es048181i.