Source and Ecological Risk Characteristics of PAHs in Sediments from Qinhuai River and Xuanwu Lake, Nanjing, China

Table 3

Sediment PAHs concentrations reported from elsewhere.

Study areas	Number; of PAHs	∑PAHs Conc.; (ng/g)	Mean; (ng/g)	References
Qinhuai River, Nanjing, China	14	796.2–10,470	2,713.8	This study
Qiantang River, China	15	91.3–614.4	313.3	Chen et al. 2007 [28]
Songhua River, China	15	20.5–632.0	178.0	Ma et al. 2013 [25]
Songhua River, China	16	68.25–654.15	234.15	Zhao et al. 2014 [23]
Arc River, France	16	151.0–1,257.0	585.3	Kanzari et al. 2012 [40]
Haihe River, China	16	257.0–16,901.0	—	Chen et al. 2014 [29]
Calabar River, Nigeria	17	1,670.0–20,100.0	9,370	Oyo-Ita et al. 2013 [35]
Tuhai-Majia River, China	16	311.7–3,736.3	914.4	Liu et al. 2012 [37]
Haihe River, Tianjin, China	16	774.8–255,371.9	27,074.1	Jiang et al. 2007 [36]
Nilufer Creek, Bursa, Turkey	12	15.0–9,600.0	—	Karaca and Tasdemir, 2014 [41]
Luan River, China	16	20.9–287.0	115.3	Cao et al. 2010 [42]
Yangtze River, Wuhan, China	16	72.4–3,995.2	1,334.5	Feng et al. 2007 [27]
Tonghui River, Beijing, China	16	127.1–927.7	540.4	Zhang et al. 2004 [22]
Rivers in Shanghai, China	17	107.0–1,707.0	823.0	Liu et al. 2008 [24]
Boston Harbor, USA	4	0.4–6300	—	McGroddy et al. 1995 [43]
Malacca Strait, Malaysia	16	347.05–6207.5	—	Keshavarzifard et al. 2017 [44]
Djibouti-city coastal area, Djibouti	16	2.65–3760.11	387.87	Mahdi ahmed et al. [45]
The coastal lagoons and estuaries of New York and New Jersey, USA	—	7.6–6766.1	468.4	Potapova et al. 2016 [46]
Pengkalan Chepa River, Malaysia	16	36.7–560.7	266.5	Noor et al. 2015 [47]
Sydney Harbor, Australia	—	Bd–460336	21782	Birch 2017 [48]