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Articles | Volume 9, issue 2
Articles | Volume 9, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-381-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-381-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 9, issue 2
Original research article
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05 Jul 2023
Original research article |  | 05 Jul 2023

Pesticide transport through the vadose zone under sugarcane in the Wet Tropics, Australia

Rezaul Karim, Lucy Reading, Les Dawes, Ofer Dahan, and Glynis Orr

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The study was performed using continuous measurement of temporal variations in soil saturation and of the concentration of pesticides along the vadose zone profile and underlying alluvial aquifers at sugarcane fields in the Wet Tropics of Australia. A vadose zone monitoring system was set up to enable the characterization of pesticide (non-PS II herbicides) migration with respect to pesticide application, sugarcane growing period, and, finally, rainwater infiltration.
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