Simulating pesticide leaching and runoff in rice paddies with the RICEWQ-VADOFT model

Autor: Mara Gennari, Aldo Ferrero, L. Padovani, Martin W. Williams, Mark J. Cheplick, Ettore Capri, Zewei Miao, Francesco Vidotto, Marco Trevisan
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Scopus-Elsevier
ISSN: 0047-2425
Popis: There is a current need to simulate leaching and runoff of pesticide from rice (Oryza saliva L.) paddies for assessing environmental impacts on a valuable agricultural system. The objective of this study was to develop a model for determining predicted environmental concentration (PEC) in soil, runoff, and ground water through the linkage of two models, rice water quality model (RICEWQ) and vadose zone transport model (VADOFT), to simulate pesticide fate and transport within a rice paddy and underlying soil profile. Model performance was evaluated with a field data set obtained from a 2-yr field experiment in 1997 and 1998 in northern Italy. The predictions of amount of pesticide running off from the paddy field and accumulating in the paddy sediment were in agreement with measured values. Leaching into the vadose zone accounted for approximately 19% of the applied dose, but only a small amount of chemical (
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