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Altitude profiles of total chlorinated paraffins in humus and spruce needles from the Alps (MONARPOP)

Chlorinated paraffin’s (CP’s) are toxic, bioaccumulative, persistent, and ubiquitously present in the environment. CPs were analysed in humus and needles samples, which were taken within Monitoring Network in the Alpine Region for Persistent Organic Pollutant (MONARPOP) at sampling sites of 7 different altitude profiles in the Alps. A clear vertical tendency within altitude profiles elevated concentrations were observed in humus samples between 700 and 900 and 1300 and 1500m.

COBISS.SI-ID: 2483366

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Influence of management on water balance of the silver fir-beech forests in the Dinaric karst

Scientific monography on imact of forest management on water balance of forests

COBISS.SI-ID: 248384000

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A comparison of Alpine emissions to forest soil and spruce needle loads for persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

The project MONARPOP analysed the concentrations of semivolatile organic compounds (SVOC’s) in Norway spruce needles and forest soil from 40 remote Alpine forest sites in Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland.

COBISS.SI-ID: 2455206

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Linkage between river hydromorph. characteristics and ecological status of Populus nigra - development of a modeling framework for riverain ecoystem.

A comparison of two forest hydrological models for forest water balance was presented for managed and non-managed forest in Dinaric karst.

COBISS.SI-ID: 2194598

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Vertical distribution of organochlorine pesticides in humus along Alpine altitudinal profiles in relation to ambiental parameters.

In forest soils along vertical profiles located in different parts of Alps, concentrations of persistent organic pollutants (POP’s), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) like DDT’s, HCB, HCH, heptachlor, aldrin, dieldrin and mirex were measured. Though local characteristics of the sites are influenced by numerous factors like orographic and meteorological parameters, forest characteristics and humus parameters. On the basis of climatological values of each site, w2e found that the contamination increase with altitude can be described to a certain “cold condensation effect”.

COBISS.SI-ID: 2476198