Incorporating variations in pesticide catabolic activity into a GIS-based groundwater risk assessment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 367, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 641-652

  Posen, Paulette ^a   Lovett, Andrew ^a   Hiscock, Kevin ^a   Evers, Sarah ^b   Ward, Rob ^b   Reid, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catabolic activity; GIS; Groundwater vulnerability; Isoproturon; Pesticide leaching; Soils

Indexed keywords

CATABOLIC ACTIVITY; MINERALISATION; PESTICIDE LEACHING; RADIORESPIROMETRY;

CATCHMENTS; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PESTICIDE EFFECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CARBON 14; ISOPROTURON; ORGANIC CARBON; PESTICIDE;

GIS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HERBICIDE; ORGANIC CARBON; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CLAY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOLOGY; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MINERAL METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIROMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PESTICIDES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746265352     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.02.024     Document Type: Article

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