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A Review of Field Lysimeter Studies to Describe the Environmental Fate of Pesticides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Kim Winton  and
Jerome B. Weber
Kim Winton
Affiliation:
Ciba-Geigy Corp., Greensboro, NC 27419
Jerome B. Weber
Affiliation:
Crop Sci. Dept., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC 27695
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Abstract

A brief review is presented for the use of soil lysimeters in studying transpiration, evapotranspiration, moisture, and nutrient movement in earlier times and pesticide dissipation and movement, and mass-balance of pesticide dissipation in more recent times. The important factors needed to understand research findings and to model pesticide dissipation such as key soil and site characteristics, climatic conditions, and the methods involved are discussed. Several case studies carried out by Ciba and North Carolina State University are discussed and current developments in soil column field lysimeters are presented.

Keywords

Pesticide dissipationpesticide leachabilitypesticide movementsand pesticide volatilization
Type
Symposium
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 1996 , pp. 202 - 209
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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