Assessment of the potential risk of leaching pesticides in agricultural soils: study case Tibasosa, Boyaca, Colombia.
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SUBMITTER: Navarro L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8591474 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
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Assessment of the potential risk of leaching pesticides in agricultural soils: study case Tibasosa, Boyacá, Colombia.
Navarro Laura L Camacho Ricardo R López Julián E JE Saldarriaga Juan F JF
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Agricultural soils need monitoring systems to address pesticide risks for humans and the environment. The purpose of this paper was to obtain leaching risk maps of the pesticides imidacloprid, lambda-cyhalothrin, and chlorpyrifos in agricultural soil under an onion (<i>Allium cepa</i> L.) crop in Tibasosa, Boyacá, Colombia. This was obtained by studying the soil types in the area, analyzing the behavior of pollutants in the soil profile, using a delay factor and an attenuation factor to finally ...[more]
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