The pesticide fate tool for groundwater vulnerability assessment within the geospatial decision support system LandSupport

Autor: Marialaura Bancheri, Piero Manna, Giuliano Langella, Fabio Terribile, Tamás Hermann, Harald Loishandl-Weisz, Carlo De Michele, Antonio Coppola, Francesco Maria Fusco, Vincenzo Allocca, Florindo Antonio Mileti, Angelo Basile, Daniele Dalla Torre, Pantaleone De Vita
Přispěvatelé: Bancheri, M., Fusco, F., Torre, D. D., Terribile, F., Manna, P., Langella, G., De Vita, P., Allocca, V., Loishandl-Weisz, H., Hermann, T., De Michele, C., Coppola, A., Mileti, F. A., Basile, A.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Science of the total environment 807 (2022). doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150793
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Marialaura Bancheri, Francesco Fusco, Daniele Dalla Torre, Fabio Terribile, Piero Manna, Giuliano Langella, Pantaleone De Vita, Vincenzo Allocca, Harald Loishandl-Weisz, Tamás Hermann, Carlo De Michele, Antonio Coppola, Florindo Antonio Mileti, Angelo Basile./titolo:The pesticide fate tool for groundwater vulnerability assessment within the geospatial decision support system LandSupport/doi:10.1016%2Fj.scitotenv.2021.150793/rivista:Science of the total environment/anno:2022/pagina_da:/pagina_a:/intervallo_pagine:/volume:807
Popis: The protection of groundwater resources from non-point-source pollutants, such as those coming from agricultural practices, is the focus of several European Directives, including the Water Framework Directive and the Pesticide Directive. Besides the environmental goals to be reached by the single EU member state, these directives clearly underline the role of experts in supporting planners and public authorities to fulfil these objectives. This work presents a new web-based, freely-available dynamical tool, named the pesticide fate tool, developed within the geospatial Decision Support system (DSS), LandSupport, for the assessment of groundwater vulnerability, specific for type of pollutant. The tool is based on the extended transfer function model, specifically expanded to consider the transport of reactive solutes, such as pesticides. The work describes the tool implementation for three case studies, with different spatial scales and pedo-climatic conditions: Valle Telesina, IT, Marchfeld, AT, and Zala County, HU. Principal inputs of the tool are: soil physical and hydrological properties, climate, groundwater table depth, type of crops and related pesticides. Results of the model are shown through the LandSupport GUI both as coloured maps, representing the relative concentration of pesticide at the arrival to the water table at the end of the simulation period, and as cumulative charts of the solute arrival at the depth of interest. The three case studies are shown as examples of application of the LandSupport DSS in supporting the Water and Pesticides directives, demonstrating that it represents a valuable instrument for public authorities, environmental planners, as well as agricultural extension services. For example, large differences are shown by soils in filtering the tetraconazole (99.9% vs 76%), a fungicide used in viticulture, or different percentage of arrival (0.32% and 0,01%) to the groundwater table are shown for two herbicides (Tribenuron and Florasulam) largely used to control annual dicotyledonous weeds.
Databáze: OpenAIRE