Assessment of Pesticide, Dioxin-like Polychlorinated Biphenyl, and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Existence around Galindez Island, and Comparison with the Organic Pollution Bibliography of the Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Sustainability
• Main Authors: Halim Aytekin Ergül, Türkan Erdem, Ezgi Gizem Pelin, Arda M. Tonay, Serdar Aksan, Bayram Öztürk
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic Peninsula; notothenioid fishes; pesticides; dl -PCBs; PAHs; Turkish polar program; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Austral; Galindez; Galindez Island; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14073994

Sediment, notothenioid fish, and moss samples were collected from the vicinity of Galindez Island, Antarctic Peninsula during the austral autumn of 2016 and 2017. Pesticide, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH), and dioxin-like Polychlorinated Biphenyl (dl-PCB) concentrations were measured using Hi...