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Air-side and plant-side resistances influence the uptake of airborne PCBs by evergreen plantsJonathan L Barber
Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, UK
Environ Sci Technol 36:3224-9. 2002..The findings indicate that plant-side resistance can have an important effect on uptake rates of different PCB congeners in the field, even when air-side resistance is high...- Analysis of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances in air samples from Northwest EuropeJonathan L Barber
Centre for Chemicals Management and Environmental Science Department, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK LA1 4YQ
J Environ Monit 9:530-41. 2007.... - Spatial and temporal variability in air concentrations of short-chain (C10-C13) and medium-chain (C14-C17) chlorinated n-alkanes measured in the U.K. atmosphereJonathan L Barber
Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom
Environ Sci Technol 39:4407-15. 2005..PCAs appear to be released from multiple sources around the country, as a result of the diffusive, open industrial and construction use of the technical mixtures... - Hexachlorobenzene in the global environment: emissions, levels, distribution, trends and processesJonathan L Barber
Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, UK
Sci Total Environ 349:1-44. 2005..Whilst the amount of HCB being emitted from contemporary soil is much lower, only a small amount of re-emission of HCB from soil to air is required to maintain contemporary air concentrations under the current primary emission scenario... - Exchange of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) between air and a mixed pasture swardJonathan L Barber
Department of Environmental, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
Environ Sci Technol 38:3892-900. 2004..e., differences between plant species in cuticle composition and/or structure affecting the permeability of the cuticle are of greater importance than differences in leaf morphology affecting aerodynamic roughness... - Current issues and uncertainties in the measurement and modelling of air-vegetation exchange and within-plant processing of POPsJonathan L Barber
Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
Environ Pollut 128:99-138. 2004.... - Study of plant-air transfer of PCBs from an evergreen shrub: implications for mechanisms and modelingJonathan L Barber
Departments of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, U K
Environ Sci Technol 37:3838-44. 2003..This has important implications for terrestrial food chain transfer and global cycling with leaf concentrations remaining elevated long after a contamination event... - Investigation into the importance of the stomatal pathway in the exchange of PCBs between air and plantsJonathan L Barber
Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, UK
Environ Sci Technol 36:4282-7. 2002..05). The results of the study indicate that there is a stomatal effect on the rate of exchange of PCBs between Hemerocallis leaves and air... 
Field calibration of polyurethane foam disk passive air samplers for PBDEsChakra Chaemfa
Centre for Chemicals Management, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
J Environ Monit 11:1859-65. 2009..5-9.8, 7.4-12.4, and 4.7-6.6 pg/m(3), respectively. This suggests the robustness of this sampler in comparisons between regional and global campaigns where these three designs are employed...- Potential contamination of shipboard air samples by diffusive emissions of PCBs and other organic pollutants: implications and solutionsRainer Lohmann
Environmental Science Department, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, LA1 4YQ, UK
Environ Sci Technol 38:3965-70. 2004..The implications of these findings for past and future studies of global POPs distribution are discussed. Recommendations are made to help critically appraise and minimize the problems of insidious/diffusive shipboard contamination... - A study of aerosol entrapment and the influence of wind speed, chamber design and foam density on polyurethane foam passive air samplers used for persistent organic pollutantsChakra Chaemfa
Centre for Chemicals Management, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK LA1 4YQ
J Environ Monit 11:1135-9. 2009..Further work is required to investigate how quantitative such entrapment or 'sampling' is under different ambient conditions, and with different aerosol sizes and types... - Field calibration of polyurethane foam (PUF) disk passive air samplers for PCBs and OC pesticidesChakra Chaemfa
Centre for Chemicals Management and Environmental Science Department, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA14YQ, UK
Environ Pollut 156:1290-7. 2008..Small differences in dimensions between the 3 designs of passive sampler chamber had no discernable effect on accumulation rates, allowing comparison with previously published data... - Spatial distribution of atmospheric PAHs and PCNs along a north-south Atlantic transectFoday M Jaward
Department of Environmental Science, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, LA1 4YQ, UK
Environ Pollut 132:173-81. 2004..5-2.5:1. The mechanism(s) causing this observation is/are not understood at present, but dynamic environmental process(es) is/are implicated... - Screening for PFOS and PFOA in European air using passive samplersChakra Chaemfa
Centre for Chemicals Management, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
J Environ Monit 12:1100-9. 2010..This study gives some encouragement to the idea that PUF-PAS can be used to sample PFASs. From our knowledge, this is the first study using untreated PUF disks to sample ionic PFASs in the atmosphere... - Uptake and storage of PCBs by plant cuticlesClaudia Moeckel
Centre for Chemicals Management, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
Environ Sci Technol 42:100-5. 2008..Leaf surface area is, therefore, likely to control the ability of vegetation to scavenge these compounds from the air in many field situations... - A novel analytical approach for visualizing and tracking organic chemicals in plantsEdward Wild
Departments of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom
Environ Sci Technol 38:4195-9. 2004..Many other applications are envisaged for TPEM, in visualizing organic chemicals within different matrixes... - Evidence for dynamic air-water coupling and cycling of persistent organic pollutants over the open Atlantic OceanFoday M Jaward
Department of Environmental Science, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
Environ Sci Technol 38:2617-25. 2004..However, the precise mechanisms remain unclear; further studies are urgently required to elucidate them... - Air-water distribution of hexachlorobenzene and 4,4'-DDE along a North-South Atlantic transectKees Booij
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, PO Box 59, 1790 AB Texel, The Netherlands
Mar Pollut Bull 54:814-9. 2007 - An improved method for the analysis of volatile polyfluorinated alkyl substances in environmental air samplesAnnika Jahnke
Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research Centre, Max Planck Str 1, 21502, Geesthacht, Germany
Anal Bioanal Chem 387:965-75. 2007..The applicability of the method was demonstrated by means of environmental air samples from an urban and a rural location in Northern Germany... 
Estrogen-like properties of fluorotelomer alcohols as revealed by mcf-7 breast cancer cell proliferationMarleen Maras
Laboratory for Ecophysiology, Biochemistry, and Toxicology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Environ Health Perspect 114:100-5. 2006..The latter finding suggests an alternative mode of action of the fluorotelomer alcohols compared with that of E2. This study clearly underlines the need for future in vivo testing for specific endocrine-related end points...