Contamination of the Lake Baikal Basin by Organochlorine Pesticides and Polychlorinated Biphenyls: the Gusinoye Lake
G. S. SHIRAPOVA1, N. S. UTYUZHNIKOVA1, O. A. RABINA2, A. I. VYALKOV2, S. V. MOROZOV2 and V. B. BATOEV1
1Baikal Institute of Nature Management, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ul. Sakhyanovoy 8, Ulan Ude 670047 (Russia)
gshira@yandex.ru
2Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pr. Akademika Lavrentyeva 9, Novosibirsk 630090 (Russia)
moroz@nioch.nsc.ru
Keywords: organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, the Lake Baikal basin
Pages: 187–195
Abstract
In the bottom sediments and surface water of the Gusinoye Lake (the Lake Baikal basin) there were content and profile values for organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls determined. An evaluation was performed concerning the ways of coming thereof in the Gusinoye Lake It has been found that the sources of these ecotoxicants are mainly local.
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