title: Polychlorinated biphenyls and -naphthalenes in pine needles and soil from Poland--concentrations and patterns in view of long-term environmental monitoring.
abstract: Pine needles were selected as cost effective and easy collectable matrices suitable for long-term monitoring of the lower troposphere pollution with polychlorinated biphenyls and polychlorinated naphthalenes. The fingerprints of PCNs and PCBs in the top layers of agricultural soils were used for determination of point sources of pollution for terrestrial ecosystems. The new idea based on the use of nona- and decachlorinated isomers fingerprint as an additional tool suitable for the identification of potential point sources of pollution with PCBs, seemed to be a capable tool to identify contamination of soil and ambient air related to former manufacturing and the use of highly chlorinated technical PCB preparations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, University of Gdańsk, 18 Sobieskiego Street, PL 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wyrzykowska
authors.forename: Nobuyasu
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hanari
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Orlikowska
authors.forename: Ilona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bochentin
authors.forename: Pawel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rostkowski
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Falandysz
authors.forename: Sachi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Taniyasu
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Horii
authors.forename: Qinting
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Nobuyoshi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yamashita
mesh_terms: D000388:Air / Q000032:analysis*; D000392:Air Movements; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D007220:Industrial Waste; D009281:Naphthalenes / Q000032:analysis*; D028223:Pinus / Q000737:chemistry*; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000737:chemistry; D011044:Poland; D011078:Polychlorinated Biphenyls / Q000032:analysis*; D012987:Soil / Q000032:analysis*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D007220:Industrial Waste; D009281:Naphthalenes; D012987:Soil; D011078:Polychlorinated Biphenyls