Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 122, Issue 1-2, Pages 139-148Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.06.037
Keywords
Spatial variation; Seasonal variations; Petroleum hydrocarbon; Biomarker; Water-sediment system; Yellow River Delta
Funding
- International cooperation, CAS, Chinese-foreign cooperation in key projects [133337KYSB20160002]
- Youth Foundation of Shandong Institute of Business and Technology [2014QN004]
- Science and technology service network initiative, CAS [KFJ-EW-STS-127]
- Project of on-site sediment microbial remediation of public area of central Bohai Sea, North China Sea Branch of State Oceanic Administration [QDZC20150420-002]
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Aliphatic hydrocarbons biomarker and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) concentrations of surface water and sediment samples collected from Yellow River Estuary and adjacent coastal area in China were measured to determine their spatial distributions, analyze their sources and evaluate the ecological risk of PAHs in the water-sediment system. The spatial distributions of n-alkane in sediments are mainly controlled by the mixing inputs of terrigenous and marine components. In comparison with Ails, the total concentrations of Sigma 16PAHs in surface sediments from a transect of the offshore area were noticeably higher than that of the riverine and estuary areas. Additionally, the Ails and total PAHs concentrations all indicated an overall pattern of a seaward decrease. The PAHs concentrations during the dry season (mainly in the form of dissolved phase) were higher than that of PAHs (mainly dissolved phase and particulate phase form) in the flooding season. In comparison with global concentration levels of PAHs, the level of PAHs in suspended particulate matter and sediments from the Yellow River Estuary was lower than those from other countries, while the concentration of PAHs in the dissolved phase were in the middle range. Petroleum contamination, mainly from oil exploration and discharge of pollutants from rivers, was the main source of n-alkanes. The PAHs in the river were mostly of petrogenic origin, while those in the estuarial and marine areas originated mainly from pyrogenic sources. The results of the toxicology assessment suggested that the PAHs in sediments from Yellow River Estuary and adjacent coastal area exhibited a low potential eco-toxicological contamination level.
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