Pollution of the Lake Baikal Basin: Organochlorine Pesticides
OYUNA V. TSYDENOVA1, VALERIY B. BATOEV1, LUDWIG WEISSFLOG2 and KLAUS-DIETER WENZEL2
1Baikal Institute of Natural Management, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Ul. Sakhyanovoy 8, Ulan-Ude 670047 (Russia)
2UFZ-Umweltforshungszentrum, Permoserstrasse 15,D-04318
Leipzig (Germany) E-mail: vbat@binm.baikal.ru
Pages: 349-352
Abstract
The organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) content in bottom sediments of main tributaries of the Lake Baikal was studied. Experimental data on the presence of hexachlorobenzene, DDT and its metabolites and hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) isomers in sediments allowed estimating pathways of OCPs input to the Baikal basin.
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