Vaezzadeh, Vahab and Yi, Xin and Rais, Farah Rasyidah and Bong, Chui Wei and Thomes, Margaret William and Lee, Choon Weng and Zakaria, Mohamad Pauzi and Wang, Ai Jun and Zhong, Guangcai and Zhang, Gan (2021) Distribution of black carbon and PAHs in sediments of Peninsular Malaysia. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 172. ISSN 0025-326X, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112871.
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Concentrations, sources and interactions between black carbon (BC) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were investigated in 42 sediment samples collected from riverine, coastal and shelf areas in Peninsular Malaysia. The concentrations of BC measured by benzene polycarboxylic acid (BPCA) method and PAHs showed broad spatial variations between the relatively pristine environment of the East coast and developed environment of the West and South coast ranging from 0.02 to 0.36% dw and 57.7 ng g-1 dw to 19,300 ng g-1 dw, respectively. Among diagnostic ratios of PAHs, the ratios of Ant/(Ant+Phe) and LMW/HMW drew the clearest distinctions between the East coast versus the West and South coast sediments indicating the predominance of petrogenic sources in the former versus pyrogenic sources in the latter. PAHs significantly correlated with BC and total organic carbon (TOC) in the sediments (p < 0.05) having similar correlation coefficients. BC accounted for 6.06 to 30.6% of TOC in sediments.
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| Funders: | International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences [Grant No: 132744KYSB20170002], Guangdong Foundation for Program of Science and Technology Research [Grant No: 2017BT01Z134 & 2019B121205006], SKLOG open fund [Grant No: SKLOG201744], Chinese Academy of Sciences President's International Fellowship for Visiting Scientists [Grant No" 2022VCC0006], Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia LRGS (MRUN) [Grant No: LRGS/1/2016/UTM/01/1/2 & IOES-2014D], Universiti Malaya [Grant No: IIRG009B-2019], China-ASEAN Maritime Cooperation Fund Project "Monitoring and Conservation of the coastal ecosystem in the South China Sea", National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [Grant No: 41961144022] |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Black carbon; PAHs; TOC; Sorption; Benzene polycarboxylic acids; Southeast Asia |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology S Agriculture > SH Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Institute of Biological Sciences Institute of Advanced Studies Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) Office > Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Ms Zaharah Ramly |
| Date Deposited: | 30 May 2022 08:40 |
| Last Modified: | 30 May 2022 08:40 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/34397 |
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