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Potential impacts of seasonal variation on atrazine and metolachlor persistence in andisol soil

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To estimate the potential effect of seasonal variation on the fate of herbicides in andisol soil, atrazine and metolachlor residues were investigated through the summer and winter seasons during 2013 and 2014 under field condition. The computed half-lives of atrazine and metolachlor in soil changed significantly through the two seasons of the trial. The half-lives were shorter in summer season with 16.0 and 23.5 days for atrazine and metolachlor, respectively. In contrast, the half-lives were longer during the winter season with 32.7 and 51.8 days for atrazine and metolachlor, respectively. The analysis of soil water balance suggested that more pesticide was lost in deeper soil layers through infiltration in summer than in winter. In addition, during the summer season, metolachlor was more likely to leach into deeper soil layer than atrazine possibly due to high water solubility of metolachlor.

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Acknowledgments

The first author was funded by the Mitsubishi International Foundation of Japan under Grant (MITSU1415). F. Malhat (26.04074) and D.Q. Thuyet are supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) as postdoctoral research fellow at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and the University of Tokyo, respectively. The authors are grateful to the Food and Agricultural Materials Inspection Center (FAMIC) for their technical advices.

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  1. Department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering of the United Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Tokyo, Japan

    Piyanuch Jaikaew, Julien Boulange, Farag Malhat & Hirozumi Watanabe

  2. Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Dang Quoc Thuyet

  3. Pesticide Residues and Environmental Pollution Department, Central Agricultural Pesticide Laboratory, Agriculture Research Center, Dokki, Giza, 12618, Egypt

    Farag Malhat

  4. Agricultural Chemicals Inspection Station, Food and Agricultural Materials Inspection Center, Tokyo, Japan

    Satoru Ishihara

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Jaikaew, P., Boulange, J., Thuyet, D.Q. et al. Potential impacts of seasonal variation on atrazine and metolachlor persistence in andisol soil. Environ Monit Assess 187, 760 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-015-4986-4

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