Long-term pollution by chlordecone of tropical volcanic soils in the French West Indies: A simple leaching model accounts for current residue

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1697-1705

  Cabidoche, Y M ^a   Achard, R ^b   Cattan, P ^b   Clermont Dauphin, C ^a   Massat, F ^c   Sansoulet, J ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c La Drôme Laboratoire   (France)

Author keywords

Chlordecone; Persistence; Pollution; Soil; Water

Indexed keywords

ANDOSOL; AQUATIC BIOTAS; CHLORDECONE; DEEP TILLAGES; DESORPTION KINETICS; DRAINAGE WATERS; FIRST ORDERS; INPUT PARAMETERS; MICROBIAL DEGRADATIONS; MODEL-BASED; PARTITIONING COEFFICIENTS; PERSISTENCE; PHYSICO CHEMICALS; POLLUTION LEVELS; SOIL CONTENTS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON CONTENTS; SOIL TYPES; VOLCANIC SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; BIODEGRADATION; DESORPTION; FIRE HAZARDS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; INSECTICIDES; LEACHING; ORGANIC CARBON; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; SOILS; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CHLORDECONE; ORGANIC CARBON; RAIN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; WATER;

ANDOSOL; DEGRADATION; DESORPTION; DRAINAGE WATER; FERRALSOL; FRUIT; INSECTICIDE; LEACHING; NITOSOL; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PERSISTENCE; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; REACTION KINETICS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TYPE; TILLAGE; VOLCANIC SOIL; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BANANA; BIOTA; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; DESORPTION; DILUTION; KINETICS; LEACHING; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION; TILLAGE; TROPICS; WASTE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ADSORPTION; AGRICULTURE; CHLORDECONE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GUADELOUPE; HYDROPHOBICITY; INSECTICIDES; MARTINIQUE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSA; RAIN; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TIME FACTORS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 63449122722     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.12.015     Document Type: Article

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