PMID- 28314123
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170524
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1879-1298 (Electronic)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 178
DP  - 2017 Jul
TI  - Which persistent organic pollutants in the rivers of the Bohai Region of China 
      represent the greatest risk to the local ecosystem?
PG  - 11-18
LID - S0045-6535(17)30326-0 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.02.137 [doi]
AB  - Freshwater aquatic organisms can be exposed to hundreds of persistent organic 
      pollutants (POPs) discharged by natural and anthropogenic activities. Given our 
      limited resources it is necessary to identify, from the existing evidence, which 
      is the greatest threat so that control measures can be targeted wisely. The focus 
      of this study was to rank POPs according to the relative risk they represent for 
      aquatic organisms in rivers in the Bohai Region, China. A list of 14 POPs was 
      compiled based on the available data on their presence in these rivers and 
      ecotoxicological data. Those that were widely detected were benzo[a]pyrene, 
      p,p'-DDE, p,p'-DDT, endrin, fluoranthene, heptachlor, hexabromocyclododecane, 
      hexachlorobenzene, alpha-hexachlorocyclohexane, gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane, naphthalene, 
      perfluorooctanoic acid, perfluorooctane sulfonate and phenanthrene. Effect 
      concentrations were compiled for Chinese relevant and standard test species and 
      compared with river aqueous concentrations. Only bed-sediment concentrations were 
      available so water levels were calculated based on the known local sediment 
      organic carbon concentration and the K(oc). The POPs were ranked on the ratio 
      between the median river and median effect concentrations. Of the POPs studied, 
      fluoranthene was ranked as the highest threat, followed by phenanthrene, 
      naphthalene and p,p'-DDE. The risk from p,p'-DDE may be magnified due to being 
      highly bioaccumulative. However, the greatest overlap between river 
      concentrations and effect levels was for lindane. Overall, fish was the most 
      sensitive species group to the risks from POPs. Hotspots with the highest 
      concentrations and hence risk were mainly associated with watercourses draining 
      in Tianjin, the biggest city in the Bohai Region.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Zhang, Yueqing
AU  - Zhang Y
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for 
      Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; 
      University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
FAU - Johnson, Andrew C
AU  - Johnson AC
AD  - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford, 
      Oxon, OX 10 8BB, UK.
FAU - Su, Chao
AU  - Su C
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for 
      Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; 
      University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
FAU - Zhang, Meng
AU  - Zhang M
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for 
      Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; 
      University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
FAU - Jurgens, Monika D
AU  - Jurgens MD
AD  - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford, 
      Oxon, OX 10 8BB, UK.
FAU - Shi, Yajuan
AU  - Shi Y
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for 
      Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
FAU - Lu, Yonglong
AU  - Lu Y
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for 
      Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China. 
      Electronic address: yllu@rcees.ac.cn.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20170228
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - 0 (Organic Chemicals)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - 59NEE7PCAB (Hexachlorocyclohexane)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - China
MH  - *Ecosystem
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/*methods
MH  - Fishes
MH  - Hexachlorocyclohexane/analysis
MH  - Organic Chemicals/analysis
MH  - Rivers/*chemistry
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Bohai Region
OT  - Ecological risk
OT  - Fluoranthene
OT  - POPs
OT  - Risk ranking
EDAT- 2017/03/18 06:00
MHDA- 2017/05/26 06:00
CRDT- 2017/03/18 06:00
PHST- 2016/11/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/02/16 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2017/02/26 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/03/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/05/26 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/03/18 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0045-6535(17)30326-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.02.137 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 2017 Jul;178:11-18. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.02.137. Epub 
      2017 Feb 28.