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TY - JOUR
T1 - Soil’s Hidden Power
T2 - The Stable Soil Organic Carbon Pool Controls the Burden of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Background Soils
AU - Jiang, Lu
AU - Lv, Jitao
AU - Jones, Kevin C.
AU - Yu, Shiyang
AU - Wang, Yawei
AU - Gao, Yan
AU - Wu, Jing
AU - Luo, Lun
AU - Shi, Jianbo
AU - Li, Yingming
AU - Yang, Ruiqiang
AU - Fu, Jianjie
AU - Bu, Duo
AU - Zhang, Qinghua
AU - Jiang, Guibin
PY - 2024/5/14
Y1 - 2024/5/14
N2 - Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) tend to accumulate in cold regions by cold condensation and global distillation. Soil organic matter is the main storage compartment for POPs in terrestrial ecosystems due to deposition and repeated air–surface exchange processes. Here, physicochemical properties and environmental factors were investigated for their role in influencing POPs accumulation in soils of the Tibetan Plateau and Antarctic and Arctic regions. The results showed that the soil burden of most POPs was closely coupled to stable mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC). Combining the proportion of MAOC and physicochemical properties can explain much of the soil distribution characteristics of the POPs. The background levels of POPs were estimated in conjunction with the global soil database. It led to the proposition that the stable soil carbon pools are key controlling factors affecting the ultimate global distribution of POPs, so that the dynamic cycling of soil carbon acts to counteract the cold-trapping effects. In the future, soil carbon pool composition should be fully considered in a multimedia environmental model of POPs, and the risk of secondary release of POPs in soils under conditions such as climate change can be further assessed with soil organic carbon models.
AB - Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) tend to accumulate in cold regions by cold condensation and global distillation. Soil organic matter is the main storage compartment for POPs in terrestrial ecosystems due to deposition and repeated air–surface exchange processes. Here, physicochemical properties and environmental factors were investigated for their role in influencing POPs accumulation in soils of the Tibetan Plateau and Antarctic and Arctic regions. The results showed that the soil burden of most POPs was closely coupled to stable mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC). Combining the proportion of MAOC and physicochemical properties can explain much of the soil distribution characteristics of the POPs. The background levels of POPs were estimated in conjunction with the global soil database. It led to the proposition that the stable soil carbon pools are key controlling factors affecting the ultimate global distribution of POPs, so that the dynamic cycling of soil carbon acts to counteract the cold-trapping effects. In the future, soil carbon pool composition should be fully considered in a multimedia environmental model of POPs, and the risk of secondary release of POPs in soils under conditions such as climate change can be further assessed with soil organic carbon models.
U2 - 10.1021/acs.est.4c00028
DO - 10.1021/acs.est.4c00028
M3 - Journal article
VL - 58
SP - 8490
EP - 8500
JO - Environmental Science and Technology
JF - Environmental Science and Technology
SN - 0013-936X
IS - 19
ER -