Temperature dependency of chlorobenzene bioaccumulation in phytoplankton.

Abstract Chlorobenzene bioconcentration factors for Scenedesmus spp measured by batch equilibration, increased with temperature between 4.5 and 27.6 °C. A thermodynamic analysis suggests that the bioconcentration is driven by an entropy gain. Slopes of Log BCF -log K ow relationships increased with temperature. These results agree with earlier reports for the analogous bioconcentration to fish.