Soil burdens of persistent organic pollutants. Their levels, fate and risk. Part I. Variation of concentration ranges according to different soil uses and locations

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Authors	HOLOUBEK Ivan DUŠEK Ladislav SÁŇKA Milan HOFMAN Jakub ČUPR Pavel JARKOVSKÝ Jiří ZBÍRAL Jiří KLÁNOVÁ Jana
Year of publication	2009
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Environmental Pollution
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Soil contamination adn decontamination incl. pesticides
Keywords	Soil; POP levels; Persistent organic pollutants; Organic carbon
Description	Detailed soil screening data from the Czech Republic as a typical Central European country are presented here. 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.
Related projects:	Interactions among the chemicals, environment and biological systems and their consequences on the global, regional and local scales (INCHEMBIOL) Realization of the scientific goals of the National implementation plan of the Stockholm Convention