TY - JOUR A1 - Aichner, Bernhard A1 - Bussian, B. A1 - Lehnik-Habrink, Petra A1 - Hein, Sebastian T1 - Regionalized concentrations and fingerprints of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in german forest soils N2 - Samples of 474 forest stands in Germany were analysed for concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in three sampling depths. Enhanced concentrations were mainly found at spots relatively close to densely industrialized and urbanized regions and at some topographically elevated areas. Average enrichment factors between mineral soil and humic layer depend on humus type i.e. decrease from mull via moder to mor. Based on their compound-patterns, the observed samples could be assigned to three main clusters. For some parts of our study area a uniform assignment of samples to clusters over larger regions could be identified. For instance, samples taken at vicinity to brown-coal strip-mining districts are characterized by high relative abundances of low-molecular-weight PAHs. These results suggest that PAHs are more likely originated from local and regional emitters rather than from long-range transport and that specific source-regions can be identified based on PAH fingerprints. KW - Organic pollutants KW - PAHs KW - Soil KW - Emissions KW - Long-range transport KW - Enrichment factor KW - Humic layer KW - Mineral soils KW - O-horizon PY - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2015.03.026 SN - 0269-7491 SN - 0013-9327 SN - 1873-6424 VL - 203 SP - 31 EP - 39 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - New York, NY [u.a.] AN - OPUS4-34792 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kalbe, Ute A1 - Bandow, Nicole A1 - Lehnik-Habrink, Petra A1 - Sauer, Andreas A1 - Berger, Wolfgang ED - Gidarakos, E. ED - Cossu, R. ED - Stegmann, R. T1 - Validation of procedures for content analysis of organic contaminants in soil, treated biowaste and sludge N2 - Drafit Standards for the determination of organic pollutants in environmental matrices such as sludge, treated biowaste and soil have been basically developed in the ffamework of the European Standardization project HORIZONTAL (http://horizontal.ecn.nl/home/). T2 - Crete 2014 - 4th International conference Industrial and hazardous waste management CY - Chania, Crete, Greece DA - 02.09.2014 KW - Content analysis KW - Validation ring tests KW - PAH KW - PCB KW - Dioxins KW - Furnaes KW - dl-PCB KW - Soil KW - Treted biowaste KW - Sludge KW - PCDD/PCDF PY - 2014 SN - 978-960-8475-20-5 SN - 2241-3138 N1 - Geburtsname von Sauer, Andreas: Buchholz, A. - Birth name of Sauer, Andreas: Buchholz, A. SP - 379 EP - 380 AN - OPUS4-31637 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -