Organic contaminants in Welsh soils: polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons contamination in subsoil from outskirts of Beijing, People's Republic of China

“…Unlike other compounds, Per (r=0.63), DBA (r=0.57) and InP (r=0.52) also gave strong correlation with APAHs. Jones et al (1989) found that soil OM content has some controlling influence on the PAHs concentration in soils-the higher the OM content the higher the PAHs concentration. However, in this study, no correlations were found between PAHs concentration, organic matter content and the soil properties.…”

“…Up to now, most knowledge on the distribution of PAHs in the environment is derived from studies in bwestern worldQ (Edwards, 1983;Jones et al, 1989;Wilcke et al, 1999;Wilcke, 2000). There is a lack of more information on the state of the contamination of the environment especially in soils with PAHs in China Ma et al, 2003;Tao et al, 2004;Wang et al, 2003).…”

Association of soil polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon levels and anthropogenic impacts in a rapidly urbanizing region: Spatial distribution, soil–air exchange and ecological risk

“…They mainly originate from anthropogenic activities, such as incomplete combustion of organic materials (e.g., wood, coal oil, gas, tobacco and straw), as well as from automobile exhausts and industrial processes (Yunker et al, 2002a(Yunker et al, , 2002b. As a result, PAHs have been used to assess the magnitude of anthropogenic impacts on the environment (Jones et al, 1989;Page et al, 1999;Liu et al, 2012bLiu et al, , 2012cYang et al, 2012).…”

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the surface soils from outskirts of Beijing, China

“…Therefore, knowledge of soil contamination with PAHs is needed to avoid any food production risk and to restrict the deleterious effect of these contaminants. Many studies have been reported for the PAHs in soils in some countries (Edwards, 1983;Jones et al, 1989;Wilcke et al, 1999;Wilcke, 2000). However, in China most investigation only directed towards determining PAHs concentrations and distributions in water (Bi et al, 2001;Wang et al, 2004), air (Katagiri et al, 1996;Li et al, 2001) and sediment (Liu et al, 2000;Yang, 2000;Wu et al, 2003).…”