Dissertation / PhD Thesis/Book

PreJuSER-7041

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Aging of $^{14}$C-labeled Atrazine Residues in Soil: Location, Characterization and Biological Accessibility

Jablonowski, N. D. (Corresponding author)FZJ*

2009
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag Jülich
ISBN: 978-3-89336-588-3

Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/3684

Abstract: The long-term behavior of the herbicide atrazine and its metabolites in the environment is of continued interest in terms of risk assessment and soil quality monitoring. The results of this investigation highlight the long-term persistence and environmental behavior of the herbicide atrazine. To date, no comparable results have been published by other parties. Therefore, this study provides important data for the risk assessment of atrazine application areas or atrazine-contaminated sites. It is possible that these findings reported for atrazine presented in this report may also be relevant for other persistent chemicals and pesticides. Clearly, the calculation of predicted environmental concentrations of persistent chemicals based only on laboratory half-life or short-term field dissipation experiments should therefore be reconsidered. Agricultural soils after many years of cultivation may contain multiple aged pesticide residues from applications of various pesticides that become stabilized by binding to the soil matrix. This may challenge the environmental risk assessment of the resulting mixture of long-term available pesticide residues in our agricultural soils.[...]

Note: Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
Note: RWTH Aachen, Diss., 2009

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Research Program(s):

1. Terrestrische Umwelt (P24)

Appears in the scientific report 2009

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