ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2024
Variability of Biodegradation Rates of Commercial Chemicals in Rivers in Different Regions of Europe.
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- Persistence Assessment of Chemicals: Trajectories toward New Approach Methodologies (P-NAMs).Environmental science & technology · 2026Review
- Biodegradation Rates of Organic Chemicals in a Subtropical River: From Laboratory to Field.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- Can Benchmarking Increase the Accuracy of Predicting Biodegradation Rates across Aquatic Ecosystems?Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- Pollutant biodegradation profile mediated by multi-trophic microbial dynamics in rivers.ISME communications · 2026Article
- FAIR and Effective Communication of Data on Chemical Contaminant Biotransformation in the Environment.Environmental science & technology letters · 2025Review
- A Practical Framework for Environmental Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring in Freshwater Ecosystems.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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Abstract
Biodegradation is one of the most important processes influencing the fate of organic contaminants in the environment. Quantitative understanding of the spatial variability in environmental biodegradation is still largely uncharted territory. Here, we conducted modified OECD 309 tests to determine first-order biodegradation rate constants for 97 compounds in 18 freshwater river segments in five European countries: Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, and Greece. All but two of the compounds showed significant spatial variability in rate constants across European rivers (ANOVA,
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