NIZZETTO, Luca, Xiang LIU, Gan ZHANG, Klára KOMPRDOVÁ and Jiří KOMPRDA. Accumulation Kinetics and Equilibrium Partitioning Coefficients for Semivolatile Organic Pollutants in Forest Litter. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. WASHINGTON: AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2014, vol. 48, No 1, p. 420-428. ISSN 0013-936X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es4047318.
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Original name Accumulation Kinetics and Equilibrium Partitioning Coefficients for Semivolatile Organic Pollutants in Forest Litter
Authors NIZZETTO, Luca (380 Italy, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Xiang LIU (156 China), Gan ZHANG (156 China), Klára KOMPRDOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Jiří KOMPRDA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, WASHINGTON, AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2014, 0013-936X.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10511 Environmental sciences
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 5.330
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/14:00079298
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es4047318
UT WoS 000329548800056
Keywords in English POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; POLYCHLORINATED-BIPHENYLS; PLANT-LEAVES; ORGANOCHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL VAPORS; AIR; PCBS; FATE; BIOCONCENTRATION; SOILS
Tags AKR, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Soils are important stores of environmentally cycling semivolatile organic contaminants (SVOCs) and represent relevant atmospheric secondary sources whenever environmental conditions favor re-emission. The exchange between air and soil is controlled by resistances posed by interfacial matrices such as the ubiquitously distributed vegetation litter. For the first lime, this study focused on the experimental characterization of accumulation parameters for SVOCs in litter under real field conditions. The logarithm of the litter-air equilibrium partitioning coefficient ranged 6.8-8.9 and had a similar dependence on logK(OA) as that of plant foliage and soil data. Uptake and release rates were also K-OA dependent with values (relevant for real environmental conditions) ranging 30,000-150,000 d(-1) and 0.0004-0.0134 d(-1), respectively. The overall mass transfer coefficient v controlling litter-air exchange (0.03-1.4 cm s(-1)) was consistent with previously reported data of v for foliage in forest canopies after normalization on leaf area index. Obtained data suggest that litter holds the potential for influencing atmospheric fugacity in proximity to soil, likely affecting overall exchange of SVOCs between the soil reservoir and the atmosphere.
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