Atrazine leaching through surface and subsurface of a tropical Oxisol |
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Authors: | Tomaz Langenbach Fábio V Correia Andrew Macrae Euripedes A Vargas Jr Tácio MP Campos |
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Institution: | 1. Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Góes, Centro de Ciências da Saúde , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;2. Departamento de Engenharia Civil , Pontifícia Universidade Católica , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Abstract: | The fate of 14C atrazine was investigated using microcosms and an undisturbed Red-Yellow Latossol (Oxisol) under simulated rainfall conditions of 200 mm water month?1. Experiments were carried out using microcosm cores, the first with an uncovered surface soil; the second set with uncovered subsurface soil; the third with subsurface soil covered with 3 cm of cow manure and the last with subsurface soil covered with 5 cm of grass straw. Average values for the amount of atrazine leached after 60 days were as follows: surface soil 1.6%; subsurface 47.3%; subsurface plus manure 17.3% and subsurface plus straw 24.8%. In the surface soil, 53% of the 14C atrazine remained within the upper 1 cm, while in the subsurface microcosms the atrazine was more evenly distributed. The authors report that surface soil was retained atrazine and its metabolites for 60 days. The addition of a straw or manure covering to exposed subsoil helped to retard atrazine leaching. |
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Keywords: | Pesticides soil pollution leaching atrazine manure straw |
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