PARENT SESSION
Organized Oral Session 42: Applying ecological theories to multiple spatio-temporal scales and to different landscapes in Europe
Organizer(s): J Loeffler and U Steinhardt
Thursday, August 11, 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Meeting Room 511a, Level 5, Palais des congrès de Montréal
Ecological state of selected urban locations in Serbia after the Balkan conflict.
Vojinovic-Miloradov, Mirjana1, 2, Kovacevic, Radmila 1, Adamov, Jasna 1, Holoubek, Ivan3, Klanova, Jana 3, Jovetic, Stanka1, 1 University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia/Vojvodina, Serbia and Montenegro2 University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia/Vojvodina, Serbia and Montenegro3 RECETOX-TOCOEN & Associates, Brno, Czech Republic
ABSTRACT- Balkan conflict in Serbia during spring of 1999 resulted in release of significant quantities of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxin and organochlorine compounds into the biotic and abiotic matrix of the environment. Within the Fifth Framework Programme in the field of research, technological development and demostration, INCO-Copernicus, European Commission accepted a three year joint project Programme ASSESSMENT OF THE SELECTED POPs (PCBs, PCDDs/Fs, OCPs) IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND WATER ECOSYSTEMS FROM THE WASTE MATERIALS GENERATED BY WARFARE IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA (APOPSBAL) with the participation of University of Novi Sad as coordinator for Serbia. The main goal of this research is to determine and define levels of PCBs in soil samples, atmosphere and frogs as bio-indicators in the zone potentially impacted by the PCB contamination, groundwater flow and transport of contaminants. Experimental work recognized application of combined BioAs/GC as the optimal procedure for identification and detection of PCBs and other dioxin like compounds in abiotic and biotic matrix. The results of both analytical method and bioassay conducted in this study show that residues of PCBs are still found in soil, sediment, air and biological material-frog livers. Paper presents selected original results obtained during the first two years of APOPSBAL Project, conducted within two workpackages which covered the assessment and fate of POPs in Serbia and chemical analyses in biotic and non biotic matrix. Acknowledgements: This study is supported by the EU 5th Framework COPERNICUS Project APOPSBAL, CONTRACT No. ICA2-CT-2002-10007.
Key words: persistent organic pollutants, polychlorinated biphenyls, BioAs/GC-ECD, Balkan conflict