Factors influencing degradation of pesticides in soil

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4487-4492

  Kah, Melanie ^a   Beulke, Sabine ^a   Brown, Colin D ^b  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DT50; Half life; Ionic pesticide; Persistence; Sorption

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

KINETICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PESTICIDES; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 34250638747     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf0635356     Document Type: Article

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