Diffusive transport of persistent organic pollutants in high-mountain areas and its impact on the health of ecosystems

Authors

  • Raimon M. Prats Institut de Diagnosi Ambiental i Estudis de l’Aigua (IDAEA-CSIC)
  • Barend L. van Drooge Institut de Diagnosi Ambiental i Estudis de l’Aigua (IDAEA-CSIC)
  • Pilar Fernández Institut de Diagnosi Ambiental i Estudis de l’Aigua (IDAEA-CSIC)
  • Joan O. Grimalt Institut de Diagnosi Ambiental i Estudis de l’Aigua (IDAEA-CSIC)

Keywords:

Persistent organic pollutants, high-mountain lakes, passive sampling, air, water, fish.

Abstract

Anthropogenic activities have generated a diffuse global pollution that affects all ecosystems and organisms, including continental areas as remote as high mountains. Persistent organic pollutants reach these remote sites through longrange atmospheric transport and deposition. The CUANTOX project answers the need to determine the actual chemical composition of this pollution, studying the air, water, and fish from high-mountain lakes from the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park by using low-cost passive sampling methodologies with a small impact on the environment, and evaluating the temporal and spatial trends.

Keywords: Persistent organic pollutants, high-mountain lakes, passive sampling, air, water, fish.

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Raimon M. Prats, Institut de Diagnosi Ambiental i Estudis de l’Aigua (IDAEA-CSIC)



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No. 19 (2020)

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