Correlation of the equilibrium and kinetics of leaf-air exchange of hydrophobic organic chemicals

A simple fugacity-based model is presented describing the equilibrium and kinetics of uptake by leaves of hydrophobic organic chemicals in the vapor state from the atmosphere. A correlation is suggested for the leaf-air bioconcentration factor as a function of the chemicals' water-air and octanol-air partition coefficients and the leaf properties of air, water, and octanol-equivalent volume fractions (...)