Title: grasshopper effect
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - grasshopper effect
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.14723
Status: current

Definition
Global distillation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) involving seasonal cycling of temperatures such that movement toward the higher latitudes occurs in annual pulses.

Related Terms
- Global distillation: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14718
- persistent organic pollutants: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14909

Source
- PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 892 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-07-09)

Other Outputs
- html: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14723/html
- json: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14723/json
- xml: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14723/xml

Citation: Citation: 'grasshopper effect' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14723
License: The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms.
Collection: If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .
Disclaimer: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.
Accessed: 2026-06-28T00:19:34+00:00