PMID- 20199831
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100813
LR  - 20131121
IS  - 1873-6424 (Electronic)
IS  - 0269-7491 (Linking)
VI  - 158
IP  - 6
DP  - 2010 Jun
TI  - Organochlorine pesticides and PCBs in fish from lakes of the Tibetan Plateau and 
      the implications.
PG  - 2310-6
LID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.02.004 [doi]
AB  - High mountains may play significant roles in the global transport of persistent 
      organic pollutants (POPs). This work aims to investigate the levels, patterns and 
      distribution of semi-volatile organochlorine pollutants and to improve the 
      understanding of the long-range atmospheric transport and fate of contaminants on 
      the Tibetan Plateau. A total of 60 fish samples were collected from eight lakes 
      located between 2813 and 4718 m above sea level across the Plateau. 
      Concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides 
      (OCPs) including dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and its metabolites (DDTs), 
      hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) were measured in fish 
      muscle. The results showed that concentrations of DDT, HCH and HCB were 
      comparable to or lower than those found in remote mountains of Europe, Canada and 
      US, while PCB concentrations in fish were, on average, about 4-150 times lower on 
      Tibet than at other mountain areas. The transport and fate of contaminants in the 
      Plateau are significantly influenced by the unique climatological and 
      meteorological conditions, particularly by the summer Indian monsoon and winter 
      westerly jet stream.
CI  - Copyright 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Yang, Ruiqiang
AU  - Yang R
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research 
      Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 
      2871, Beijing, 100085, China.
FAU - Wang, Yawei
AU  - Wang Y
FAU - Li, An
AU  - Li A
FAU - Zhang, Qinghua
AU  - Zhang Q
FAU - Jing, Chuanyong
AU  - Jing C
FAU - Wang, Thanh
AU  - Wang T
FAU - Wang, Pu
AU  - Wang P
FAU - Li, Yingming
AU  - Li Y
FAU - Jiang, Guibin
AU  - Jiang G
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20100302
PL  - England
TA  - Environ Pollut
JT  - Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
JID - 8804476
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Pesticides)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Air Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Animals
MH  - Climate
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Fishes/*growth & development
MH  - Fresh Water/*analysis
MH  - Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/analysis
MH  - Muscles/chemistry
MH  - Pesticides/*analysis
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/*analysis
MH  - Tibet
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*analysis
MH  - Wind
EDAT- 2010/03/05 06:00
MHDA- 2010/08/14 06:00
CRDT- 2010/03/05 06:00
PHST- 2009/10/13 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/01/29 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2010/02/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2010/03/05 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/03/05 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/08/14 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0269-7491(10)00065-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.02.004 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Pollut. 2010 Jun;158(6):2310-6. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.02.004. Epub 
      2010 Mar 2.