Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), and Plastics: Examples of the Status, Trend, and Cycling of Organic Chemicals of Environmental Concern in the Ocean

Four decades of research have provided a reasonable understanding of the outline of the biogeochemical cycles of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in coastal ocean and surface ocean ecosystems, including atmospheric transport to the sea, air-sea exchang...

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Main Authors: John W. Farrington, Hideshige Takada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Oceanography Society 2014-03-01
Series:Oceanography
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Online Access:http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/27-1_farrington1.pdf