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Organic amendments for risk mitigation of organochlorine pesticide residues in old orchard soils

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Pollution, December 2015
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Title
Organic amendments for risk mitigation of organochlorine pesticide residues in old orchard soils
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Environmental Pollution, December 2015
DOI 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.11.039
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Tiziana Centofanti, Laura L. McConnell, Rufus L. Chaney, W. Nelson Beyer, Natasha A. Andrade, Cathleen J. Hapeman, Alba Torrents, Anh Nguyen, Marya O. Anderson, Jeffrey M. Novak, Dana Jackson

Abstract

Performance of compost and biochar amendments for in situ risk mitigation of aged DDT, DDE and dieldrin residues in an old orchard soil was examined. The change in bioavailability of pesticide residues to Lumbricus terrestris L. relative to the unamended control soil was assessed using 4-L soil microcosms with and without plant cover in a 48-day experiment. The use of aged dairy manure compost and biosolids compost was found to be effective, especially in the planted treatments, at lowering the bioavailability factor (BAF) by 18-39%; however, BAF results for DDT in the unplanted soil treatments were unaffected or increased. The pine chip biochar utilized in this experiment was ineffective at lower the BAF of pesticides in the soil. The US EPA Soil Screening Level approach was used with our measured values. Addition of 10% of the aged dairy manure compost reduced the average hazard quotient values to below 1.0 for DDT + DDE and dieldrin. Results indicate this sustainable approach is appropriate to minimize risks to wildlife in areas of marginal organochlorine pesticide contamination. Application of this remediation approach has potential for use internationally in areas where historical pesticide contamination of soils remains a threat to wildlife populations.

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Unknown 71 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 15%
Researcher 9 13%
Student > Master 8 11%
Student > Bachelor 7 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 4%
Other 9 13%
Unknown 24 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 17 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Chemical Engineering 2 3%
Computer Science 2 3%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 30 42%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 December 2015.
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#17,235,172
of 25,373,627 outputs
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#6,890
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#239,116
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Outputs of similar age from Environmental Pollution
#66
of 178 outputs
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