Relationship between soil composition and retention capacity of terbumeton onto chalky soils

Achouak El Arfaoui; Stéphanie Sayen; Eric Marceau; Lorenzo Stievano; Emmanuel Guillon; Michel Couderchet

doi:10.1071/EN08105

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Relationship between soil composition and retention capacity of terbumeton onto chalky soils

Achouak El Arfaoui ^A ^B , Stéphanie Sayen ^A ^D , Eric Marceau ^C , Lorenzo Stievano ^C , Emmanuel Guillon ^A and Michel Couderchet ^B

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^A Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de Reims (ICMR, UMR CNRS 6229), Groupe Chimie de Coordination, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, BP 1039, F-51687 Reims, Cedex 2, France.

^B URVVC-EA 2069, Laboratoire Plantes, Pesticides et Développement Durable, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, BP 1039, F-51687 Reims, Cedex 2, France.

^C Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR CNRS 7609, 4 place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris, Cedex 05, France.

^D Corresponding author. Email: stephanie.sayen@univ-reims.fr

Environmental Chemistry 6(3) 245-252 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN08105
Submitted: 13 December 2008 Accepted: 20 May 2009 Published: 18 June 2009

Environmental context. The wide use of pesticides for pest and weed control contributes to their presence in underground and surface waters, which has led to a continuously growing interest in their environmental fate. Soils play a key role in the transfer of these compounds from the sprayer to the water as a result of their capacity to retain pesticides depending on the soil components. The knowledge of soil composition should enable one to predict pesticide behaviour in the environment.

Abstract. Eight calcareous soils of Champagne vineyards (France) were studied to investigate the adsorption of the herbicide terbumeton (TER). A preliminary characterisation of the soil samples using X-ray diffraction (XRD), elemental and textural analyses, revealed a wide range of soil properties for the selected samples. The adsorption isotherms of TER were plotted for all samples. The determination of soil properties, which significantly correlated with the K_d distribution coefficient, allowed identification of organic matter and CaCO₃ as the two main soil components that govern the retention of the herbicide. Organic matter was the predominant phase involved in the retention but its role was limited by the presence of calcite. Finally, the ratio of CaCO₃ content to organic matter content was proposed as a useful parameter to predict the adsorption of terbumeton in chalky soils. The evolution of K_d as a function of this ratio was successfully described using an empirical model.

Additional keywords: chalky soil, empirical model, herbicide, sorption.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the ‘Agence de l’Eau Seine-Normandie’, the ‘Ville de Reims’, and the ‘Région Champagne-Ardenne’ for their financial support (program ‘Zerophyto’/AQUAL) and a grant to A. El Arfaoui.

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