Table 3. Comparisons of PAEs contents in agricultural soils in China (mg/kg).
| Area | DMP | DEP | DnBP | DEHP | BBP | DnOP | Σ6PAEs | Σ16PAEs | Type of soils | References |
| Shandong Peninsula | 0.36 | 0.11 | 1.47 | 1.47 | 0.19 | 1.24 | 4.48 | 6.73 | Soils of vegetable greenhouses | In this study |
| (ND∼1.24) | (ND∼1.21) | (0.02∼15.72) | (0.07∼5.32) | (ND∼5.69) | (ND∼14.40) | (1.18∼23.35) | (1.94∼35.44) | |||
| Nanjing | 0.006 | 0.005 | 0.19 | 1.72 | 0.003 | 0.158 | 1.89 | Soils of vegetable greenhouses | [14] | |
| (ND∼0.016) | (ND∼0.012) | (ND∼1.41) | (0.034∼9.031) | (ND∼0.038) | (ND∼1.739) | (0.15∼9.68) | ||||
| Hangzhou | ND | 0.59 | 0.21 | 1.48 | 0.05 | 0.14 | 2.47 | 2.75 | Soils of vegetable greenhouses | [15] |
| (0.06∼1.49) | (0.14∼0.35) | (0.81∼2.20) | (0.03∼0.16) | (0.10∼0.25) | (1.90∼4.36) | |||||
| (Σ11PAEs) | ||||||||||
| Guangzhou, Shenzhen, | (ND∼0.68) | (ND∼1.77) | (3.75∼18.45) | (2.82∼25.11) | (ND∼1.48) | (ND∼0.92) | (3.00∼45.67) | vegetable Soils | [16] | |
| Zhangjiang, | 0.02 | 0.09 | 0.23 | 0.15 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.56 | Vegetable soil | [50] | |
| Dongguan, | (ND∼0.45) | (ND∼1.06) | (ND∼7.65) | (ND∼6.38) | (ND∼2.83) | (ND∼0.32) | (0.01∼9.30) | |||
| Zhongshan, | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.49 | 0.17 | 0.13 | 0.06 | 0.92 | Paddy soil | ||
| Zhuhai, | (ND∼0.86) | (ND∼1.60) | (ND∼17.51) | (ND∼4.22) | (ND∼5.89) | (ND∼1.12) | (0.01∼25.99) | |||
| Shunde | 0.03 | 0.19 | 0.41 | 0.12 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.81 | Banana soil | ||
| (ND∼0.12) | (ND∼2.50) | (ND∼4.13) | (ND∼2.69) | (ND∼0.26) | (ND∼0.08) | (0.05∼5.92) | ||||
| 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.30 | 0.07 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.49 | Sugarcane soil | |||
| (ND∼0.18) | (ND∼0.44) | (ND∼1.77) | (ND∼0.26) | (ND∼0.03) | (ND∼0.07) | (ND∼2.10) | ||||
| 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.20 | 0.11 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.43 | Orchard soil | |||
| (ND∼0.06) | (ND∼0.40) | (ND∼0.56) | (ND∼0.99) | (ND∼0.06) | (ND∼0.15) | (0.04∼1.38) | ||||
| Leizhou Peninsula | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.45 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.53 | 1.11 | Sugarcane soil | [17] |
| (0.02∼5.45) | ||||||||||
| 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.24 | 0.24 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.53 | 0.86 | Paddy soil | ||
| (ND∼2.78) | ||||||||||
| 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.27 | 0.12 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.45 | 0.61 | Vegetable soil | ||
| (0.02∼1.87) | ||||||||||
| 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.28 | 0.10 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.44 | 0.60 | Orchard soil | ||
| (0.28∼1.05) | ||||||||||
| Huizhou | 0.004 | 0.01 | 0.15 | 0.09 | 0.002 | 0.01 | 0.31 | 0.60 | Agricultural soil | [51] |
| (ND∼0.03) | (ND∼0.22) | (ND∼0.39) | (ND∼0.44) | (ND∼0.04) | (ND∼0.06) | (0.09∼0.75) | (0.18∼2.04) | |||
| 0.28 | 0.59 | Vegetable soil | ||||||||
| (0.06∼0.64) | (0.18∼2.04) | |||||||||
| 0.24 | 0.65 | Paddy soil | ||||||||
| (0.08∼0.64) | (0.43∼1.21) | |||||||||
| 0.22 | 0.51 | Orchard soil | ||||||||
| (0.08∼0.64) | (0.38∼0.63) |