Monod kinetics rather than a first-order degradation model explains atrazine fate in soil mini-columns: Implications for pesticide fate modelling

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1405-1411

  Cheyns, K ^a   Mertens, J ^a   Diels, J ^a   Smolders, E ^a   Springael, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Biodegradation; HYDRUS 1D; Inverse modelling; Monod kinetics

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE BIODEGRADATION; ATRAZINE CONCENTRATIONS; ATRAZINES; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; COLUMN STUDY; DEGRADATION DATA; DEGRADATION MODEL; DEGRADATION TEST; FIRST-ORDER; HYDRUS-1D; INVERSE MODELLING; LAG PHASE; MONOD KINETIC; MONOD MODEL; PEAK HEIGHT; PESTICIDE DEGRADATION; PESTICIDE LEACHING; PESTICIDE TRANSPORT; RAIN WATER; REACTIVE TRANSPORT;

AMPLIFICATION; BIODEGRADATION; EFFLUENTS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HERBICIDES; LEACHING; MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL TESTING; SOILS;

DEGRADATION;

ATRAZINE; BROMIDE; PESTICIDE;

ATRAZINE; BIODEGRADATION; EFFLUENT; KINETICS; LEACHING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SOIL COLUMN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; FLOW RATE; LEACHING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION;

ATRAZINE; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PESTICIDES; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 77949915591     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.12.041     Document Type: Article

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