Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PAHs and oxygenated PAHs) and trace metals in fish species from Ghana (West Africa): bioaccumulation and health risk assessment.
Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PAHs and oxygenated PAHs) and trace metals in fish species from Ghana (West Africa): bioaccumulation and health risk assessment.
B. Bandowe,M. Bigalke,3 Authors,W. Wilcke
2014 · DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2013.12.018
Environment International · 265 Citations
TLDR
The log-transformed concentrations of PAHs and OPAHs in muscles, guts+gills were significantly correlated with their octanol-water partitioning coefficients, strongly suggesting that equilibrium partitioning from water/sediment into fish tissue was the main mechanism of bioaccumulation.