Variation of pesticide sorption isotherm in soil at the catchment scale
2003
Coquet, Yves
The variation of the sorption isotherm of pesticides has seldom been explored at the catchment scale. Such a study was conducted at the scale of a 187-ha agricultural catchment for three herbicides: atrazine, isoproturon and metamitron. Partition coefficient (K(d)) values were measured in batch experiments on 51 topsoil samples, and showed moderate variability at the catchment scale (coefficient of variation CV ∼ 30%). Values of K(d) ranged from 0.47 to 1.70 litre kg−1 for atrazine, 0.47 to 1.81 for isoproturon, and 0.55 to 2.21 for metamitron. A clustering method was used to reduce the number of samples on which to measure sorption isotherms to 14. Sorption isotherms agreed with the Freundlich rather than the linear model. K(f) parameters had CV values similar to those for K(d), with values ranging from 0.78 to 2.13 mg (1-N(f) litre N(f) kg−1 for atrazine, 0.61 to 1.82 for isoproturon, and 0.69 and 2.58 for metamitron. N(f) exponents showed little variation (CV < 5%). N(f) values were between 0.86 and 0.98 for atrazine, 0.85 and 0.90 for isoproturon, and 0.82 and 0.87 for metamitron. More than 97% of the K(f) catchment-scale variations could be explained by the variations of the soil organic carbon content.
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