Altitude profiles of total chlorinated paraffins in humus and spruce needles from the Alps (MONARPOP)

Saverio Iozza; Peter Schmid; Michael Oehme; Rodolfo Bassan; Claudio Belis; Gert Jakobi; Manfred Kirchner; Karl Werner Schramm; Norbert Kräuchi; Wolfgang Moche; Ivo Offenthaler; Peter Weiss; Primož Simončič; Wilhelm Knoth

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2009.05.033

Altitude profiles of total chlorinated paraffins in humus and spruce needles from the Alps (MONARPOP)

Saverio Iozza, Peter Schmid, Michael Oehme, Rodolfo Bassan, Claudio Belis, Gert Jakobi, Manfred Kirchner, Karl Werner Schramm, Norbert Kräuchi, Wolfgang Moche, Ivo Offenthaler, Peter Weiss, Primož Simončič, Wilhelm Knoth

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Abstract

Chlorinated paraffins (CPs) are toxic, bioaccumulative, persistent, and ubiquitously present in the environment. CPs were analyzed in humus and needle samples, which were taken within the Monitoring Network in the Alpine Region for Persistent and other Organic Pollutants (MONARPOP) at sampling sites of 7 different altitude profiles in the Alps. Gas chromatography combined with electron ionization tandem mass spectrometry (EI-MS/MS) was used for the determination of total CPs (sum of short, medium and long chain CPs). CPs were found in all samples; the concentrations varied between 7 and 199 ng g ^-1 dry weight (dw) and within 26 and 460 ng g ^-1 dw in humus and needle samples, respectively. A clear vertical tendency within the individual altitude profiles could not be ascertained. Within all altitude profiles, elevated concentrations were observed in humus samples taken between 700 and 900 m and between 1300 and 1500 m. In the needle samples no similar correlation could be observed due to higher variation of the data.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3225-3231
Number of pages	7
Journal	Environmental Pollution
Volume	157
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2009.05.033
State	Published - Dec 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

EI-MS/MS
Humus
Polychlorinated n-alkanes
Spruce needles
Total CPs

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Iozza, S., Schmid, P., Oehme, M., Bassan, R., Belis, C., Jakobi, G., Kirchner, M., Schramm, K. W., Kräuchi, N., Moche, W., Offenthaler, I., Weiss, P., Simončič, P., & Knoth, W. (2009). Altitude profiles of total chlorinated paraffins in humus and spruce needles from the Alps (MONARPOP). Environmental Pollution, 157(12), 3225-3231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2009.05.033

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Altitude profiles of total chlorinated paraffins in humus and spruce needles from the Alps (MONARPOP)

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