@ARTICLE{Yu_Yunlong_Distribution_2016,
 author={Yu, Yunlong and Li, Yuanyuan and Guo, Zhigang and Zou, Hua},
 volume={vol. 42},
 number={No 1},
 journal={Archives of Environmental Protection},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2016},
 publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences},
 abstract={The last study on n-alkanes in surface sediments of Taihu Lake was in 2000, only 13 surface sediment samples were analysed, in order to have a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of n-alkanes in the surface sediments of Taihu Lake, 41 surface sediment samples were analyzed by GC-MS. C10 to C37 were detected, the total concentrations of n-alkanes ranged from 2109 ng g−1 to 9096 ng g−1 (dry weight). There was strong odd carbon predominance in long chain n-alkanes and even carbon predominance in short chain n-alkanes. When this finding was combined with the analysis results of wax n-alkanes (WaxCn), carbon preference index (CPI), unresolved complex mixture (UCM), hopanes and steranes, it was considered that the long chain n-alkanes were mainly from terrigenous higher plants, and that the short chain n-alkanes mainly originated from bacteria and algae in the lake, compared with previous studies, there were no obvious anthropogenic petrogenic inputs. Terrestrial and aquatic hydrocarbons ratio (TAR) and C21−/C25+ indicated that terrigenous input was higher than aquatic sources and the nearshore n-alkanes were mainly from land-derived sources. Moreover, the distribution of short chain n-alkanes presented a relatively uniform pattern, while the long chain n-alkanes presented a trend that concentrations dropped from nearshore places to the middle of lake.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={Distribution and sources of n-alkanes in surface sediments of Taihu Lake, China},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/86134/PDF/aep-2016-0006.pdf},
 doi={10.1515/aep-2016-0006},
 keywords={n-alkanes, surface sediments, Taihu Lake},
}