PMID: 16509315Mar 3, 2006Paper

Evolution of the concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in burnt woodland soils

Environmental Science & Technology
Mercedes Sonia García-FalcónJesús Simal-Gándara

Abstract

Little is known of the fate of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soils under burnt woodland. It is not clear what the behavior of the overlying wood ash layer will be along months. In this study, the levels of eight representative PAHs in the 1-5 cm layer of a periurban woodland soil that had undergone wildfire were compared with those measured in nearby and distant unburnt periurban woodland soils and in a distant unburnt rural woodland soil, and the levels at the burnt site were monitored during some 10 months. The analytical method optimized for the purpose afforded recoveries of 74-111% (depending on PAH) and repeatabilities (RSDs) better than 9%, with limits of detection ranging from 1 to 7 microg/kg. PAH levels in the 1-5 cm layer of the burnt periurban soil were very similar to those of distant unburnt periurban soil (188 vs 173 microg/kg), about seven times the 26 microg/kg measured in unburnt rural soil, which furthermore contained no detectable quantities of the highest molecular weight PAHs typical of traffic and other urban sources, as the periurban soils did. At the burnt site, PAH levels fell along the months (the total PAH level from 188 to 119 microg/kg), apparently as the result of rainfall and the pre...Continue Reading

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