Agricultural pollutants

Damasio J, Navarro-Ortega A, Tauler R et al (2010) Identifying major pesticides affecting bivalve species exposed to agricultural pollution using multi-biomarker and multivariate methods. Ecotoxicology 19 1084-1094... 

The aim of dispersion models is the prediction of atmospheric dilution of pollutants in order to prevent or avoid nuisance. Established dispersion models, designed for the large scale of industrial air pollution have to be modified to the small scale of agricultural pollutions. An experimental setup is described to measure atmospheric dilution of tracer gas under agricultural conditions. The experimental results deliver the data base to identify the parameters of the models, For undisturbed airflow modified Gaussian models are applicable. For the consideration of obstacles more sophisticated models are necessary,... 

Industrial wastes and agricultural pollutants are made of the same kinds of atoms already present in the environment. So why worry about them ... 

The pollutants are made of the same atoms as naturally occurring materials. This includes atoms such as carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen. You know from your study of chemistry, however, that atoms combine to form molecules. Furthermore, the physical and chemical properties of a molecule are markedly different from the properties of the atoms that make that molecule. They are the molecules (not atoms) of industrial wastes and agricultural pollutants that are of prime concern because these molecules in excess amounts may readily upset ecological balances. 

A sewage works would be a point source of pollution, e.g. from an effluent pipe whereas agricultural pollution is likely to be from a non-point source. 

Table 8.2 Agricultural Pollutants in U.S. Drinking Water (Continued)...

Discuss the role of industrial and agricultural pollution in development of various diseases. How and to what extent may we use the morbidity and mortality statistical data ... 

A.S. Dixit, R.I. Hall, P.R. Leavitt, R. Quinlan, J.P. Smol (2000). Effects of sequential depositional basins on lake response to urban and agricultural pollution A palaeoecological analysis of the Qu Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan Canada. Fresh-wat. Biol., 43, 319-337. 

Agricultural pollution—Environmental aspects— Congresses. 3. Pesticides—Environmental aspects— Congresses. 

Carbon-14. Carbon-14 is a major research tool. It is used pharmaceutical research, biological research, agriculture, pollution control, and archeology. 

Sargsyan, V., Risk Assessment for Agricultural Pollutants (Armenia) Modeling and Optimal Control Assessment and Management of Environmental Risks, Kluewer, Amsterdam 2001. 

In the Kuttanad, Vembanad and Periyar estuaries in Kerala, industrial and agricultural pollution has initiated major environmental problems including an increased incidence of water-related diseases, aquatic weed growth, and bioaccumulation of toxic residues in human beings [12]. 

Lakshman, G. 1975. Monitoring agricultural pollution using natural fluorescence. Water Resources Res. 11 705-708. 

Phosphates, nitrates, sediments and pesticides are all-important agricultural pollutants of the Baltic and North-East Atlantic ecoregions, areas of priority concern and action for WWF. These problems and the evidence for organic agriculture s contribution to their solution are provided in the sections of this paper dealing with water and with sediment pollution of the Meso-American Reef... 

Faulkner, L.R., Bolander, WJ. (1970). Agriculturally-polluted irrigation water as a source of plant-parasitic nematode infestation. Journal of Nematology 2,368-374. 

Table 8.3—Agricultural pollutants from pesticides, fertilizers, and factory farms (82 chemicals). 

Agricultural pollution. The liquid and solid wastes from all types of framing, including runoff from pesticides, fertilizers, and feed-lots water and wind erosion and dust from plowing animal manure carcasses and crop residues and debris. It has been estimated that agricultural pollution in the United States has amounted to more than 2 billion tons per year. 

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