Persistent organic pollutants in the Olifants River Basin, South Africa: Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer through a subtropical aquatic food web.
Persistent organic pollutants in the Olifants River Basin, South Africa: Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer through a subtropical aquatic food web.
Vera Verhaert,Nadine Newmark,8 Authors,L. Bervoets
2017 · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.057
Science of the Total Environment · 104 Citations
TLDR
The fish species in the aquatic ecosystem of the Olifants River can be consumed with a low risk for POP contamination, and TMFs of DDTs from the present study were unexpectedly higher than TMFs from temperate and arctic aquatic food webs.