Abstract
Due to their increasing agricultural use, the fate of the enormous variety of pesticides which reach the unsaturated zone is a matter of general concern regarding environmental pollution hazard. The unsaturated zone may serve as a sink for soil-applied pesticides and a source from which pesticides and their metabolites can move into the water, atmosphere, and food chain.
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Saltzman, S., Mingelgrin, U. (1984). Nonbiological Degradation of Pesticides in the Unsaturated Zone. In: Yaron, B., Dagan, G., Goldshmid, J. (eds) Pollutants in Porous Media. Ecological Studies, vol 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69585-8_14
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