PMID- 19539410
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120105
LR  - 20171116
IS  - 1873-6424 (Electronic)
IS  - 0269-7491 (Linking)
VI  - 157
IP  - 12
DP  - 2009 Dec
TI  - A comparison of Alpine emissions to forest soil and spruce needle loads for 
      persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
PG  - 3185-91
LID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.05.035 [doi]
AB  - 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.
FAU - Belis, C A
AU  - Belis CA
AD  - Regional Agency for Environmental Protection of Lombardia, Italy. 
      claudio.belis@jrc.ec.europa.eu
FAU - Offenthaler, I
AU  - Offenthaler I
FAU - Uhl, M
AU  - Uhl M
FAU - Nurmi-Legat, J
AU  - Nurmi-Legat J
FAU - Bassan, R
AU  - Bassan R
FAU - Jakobi, G
AU  - Jakobi G
FAU - Kirchner, M
AU  - Kirchner M
FAU - Knoth, W
AU  - Knoth W
FAU - Krauchi, N
AU  - Krauchi N
FAU - Levy, W
AU  - Levy W
FAU - Magnani, T
AU  - Magnani T
FAU - Moche, W
AU  - Moche W
FAU - Schramm, K-W
AU  - Schramm KW
FAU - Simoncic, P
AU  - Simoncic P
FAU - Weiss, P
AU  - Weiss P
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20090617
PL  - England
TA  - Environ Pollut
JT  - Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
JID - 8804476
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Soil)
RN  - 0 (Volatile Organic Compounds)
SB  - IM
MH  - Altitude
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*chemistry
MH  - Europe
MH  - Picea/*chemistry
MH  - Plant Leaves/chemistry
MH  - Soil/*analysis
MH  - Volatile Organic Compounds/*chemistry
EDAT- 2009/06/23 09:00
MHDA- 2012/01/06 06:00
CRDT- 2009/06/23 09:00
PHST- 2009/05/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2009/05/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2009/06/23 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/06/23 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/01/06 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0269-7491(09)00271-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.05.035 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Pollut. 2009 Dec;157(12):3185-91. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.05.035. Epub 
      2009 Jun 17.