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- Title
Leaching of seven pesticides currently used in cotton crop in Mato Grosso State-Brazil.
- Authors
Martins, Eucarlos L; Weber, Oscarlina L S; Dores, Eliana F G C; Spadotto, Cláudio A
- Abstract
This study aimed to evaluate the leaching of pesticides and the applicability of the Attenuation Factor (AF) Model to predict their leaching. The leaching of carbofuran, carbendazim, diuron, metolachlor, alpha and beta endosulfan and chlorpyrifos was studied in an Oxisol using a field experiment lysimeter located in Dom Aquino-Mato Grosso. The samples of percolated water were collected by rain event and analyzed. Chemical and physical soil attributes were determined before pesticide application to the plots. The results showed that carbofuran was the pesticide that presented a higher leaching rate in the studied soil, so was the one representing the highest contamination potential. From the total carbofuran applied in the soil surface, around 6% leached below 50 cm. The other pesticides showed lower mobility in the studied soil. The calculated values to AF were 7.06E-12 (carbendazim), 5.08E-03 (carbofuran), 3.12E-17 (diuron), 6.66E-345 (alpha-endosulfan), 1.47E-162 (beta-endosulfan), 1.50E-06 (metolachlor), 3.51E-155 (chlorpyrifos). AF Model was useful to classify the pesticides' potential for contamination; however, that model underestimated pesticide leaching.
- Publication
Journal of environmental science and health. Part. B, Pesticides, food contaminants, and agricultural wastes, 2007, Vol 42, Issue 8, p877
- ISSN
0360-1234
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1080/03601230701623217