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- Title
Experiments in water-macrophyte systems to uncover the dynamics of pesticide mitigation processes in vegetated surface waters/streams.
- Authors
Stang, Christoph; Bakanov, Nikita; Schulz, Ralf
- Abstract
Knowledge on the dynamics and the durability of the processes governing the mitigation of pesticide loads by aquatic vegetation in vegetated streams, which are characterized by dynamic discharge regimes and short chemical residence times, is scarce. In a static long-term experiment (48 h), the dissipation of five pesticides from the aqueous phase followed a biphasic pattern in the presence of aquatic macrophytes. A dynamic concentration decrease driven by sorption to the macrophytes ranged from 8.3 to 60.4 % for isoproturon and bifenox, respectively, within the first 2 h of exposure. While the aqueous concentrations of imidacloprid, isoproturon, and tebufenozide remained constant thereafter, the continuous but decelerated concentration decrease of difenoconazole and bifenox in the water-macrophyte systems used here was assumed to be attributed to macrophyte-induced degradation processes. In addition, a semi-static short-term experiment was conducted, where macrophytes were transferred to uncontaminated medium after 2 h of exposure to simulate a transient pesticide peak. In the first part of the experiment, adsorption to macrophytes resulted in partitioning coefficients (log K) ranging from 0.2 for imidacloprid to 2.2 for bifenox. One hour after the macrophytes were transferred to the uncontaminated medium, desorption of the compounds from the macrophytes resulted in a new phase equilibrium and K values of 1.46 for difenoconazole and 1.95 for bifenox were determined. A correlation analysis revealed the best match between the compound affinity to adsorb to macrophytes (expressed as K) and their soil organic carbon-water partitioning coefficient ( K) compared to their octanol-water partitioning coefficient ( K) or a mathematically derived partitioning coefficient.
- Subjects
RISK mitigation of pesticides; MACROPHYTES; WATER; CONSTRUCTED wetlands; BIFENOX; ADSORPTION (Chemistry)
- Publication
Environmental Science & Pollution Research, 2016, Vol 23, Issue 1, p673
- ISSN
0944-1344
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11356-015-5274-0