The present study intended to compare the environmental fate of pesticides in temperate and tropical soils, and to conclude on the opportunities and limitations for extrapolating locally obtained environmental fate data to other ecoregions, e.g. as part of global regulatory data packages. For that purpose, degradation and sorption data of several pesticides and metabolites in soils from temperate and tropical regions were collected and compared. In addition, the test soils were characterized and classified and their representativity for different geographical regions was investigated.

Comparison of pesticide degradation and sorption in temperate and tropical soils

248th National Meeting (2014)

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