Hexabromocyclododecane in alpine fish from the Tibetan Plateau, China
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Date
2013
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Environmental Pollution
Abstract
Hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs) has just been listed into Stockholm Convention as a persistent
organic pollutant recently. This paper studied the HBCDs in 79 wild fish from high mountain lakes and
rivers of the Tibetan Plateau. ThePHBCDs in fish muscles ranged from non detectable levels to 13.7 ng/g
lipid weight (lw) (mean value of 2.12 ng/g lw) with a high detection frequency of 65.8%. a-HBCD
dominated among the isomers and accounted for 78.2% of the total burden. Concentrations of PHBCDs
in the fish were significantly correlated with the lipid content. A decreasing trend was observed between
a-HBCD and trophic level. Positive correlation was also noted between the HBCD levels in fish from lakes
and the annual precipitation, and this implied the long-range atmospheric transport of HBCDs to the
Tibet Plateau. This was the first work to widely explore HBCDs contamination in the aquatic ecosystems
of the Tibetan Plateau.
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Hexabromocyclododecane, Fish, Tibetan Plateau, Trophic level, Lipid content
Citation
Zhu, N., Fu, J., Gao, Y., Ssebugere, P., Wang, Y., & Jiang, G. (2013). Hexabromocyclododecane in alpine fish from the Tibetan Plateau, China. Environmental Pollution, 181, 7-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2013.05.050