title: Soil burdens of persistent organic pollutants--their levels, fate and risk. Part I. Variation of concentration ranges according to different soil uses and locations.
abstract: Detailed soil screening data from the Czech Republic as a typical Central European country are presented here. Determination of a wide selection of organic and inorganic pollutants as well as an assessment of specific soil parameters allowed us to study the soil contamination in relation to the land use and soil properties. While HCHs and HCB were found at highest levels in arable soils, the higher concentrations of PCDDs/Fs, PCBs, PAHs and DDTs were observed in high altitude forest soils. Concentrations of these compounds strongly correlated with the soil organic carbon content. Several possible reasons have been suggested for the observed higher concentrations in mountain forest soils but the impact of each of these influencing factors remains to be identified. An inventory of the soil contamination is needed as a first step in our effort to estimate an extent to which the secondary sources contribute to the enhanced atmospheric levels of POPs.
authors.affiliation: Research Centre for Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology RECETOX and National POPs Centre, Masaryk University, Kamenice 126/3, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Holoubek
authors.forename: Ladislav
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dusek
authors.forename: Milan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sánka
authors.forename: Jakub
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hofman
authors.forename: Pavel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cupr
authors.forename: Jirí
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jarkovský
authors.forename: Jirí
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zbíral
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Klánová
mesh_terms: D018153:Czech Republic; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000032:analysis*; D012987:Soil / Q000032:analysis*; D012989:Soil Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D009930:Organic Chemicals; D012987:Soil; D012989:Soil Pollutants