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Studies on the impact of agricultural pesticides on water quality have been expanding in recent years. However, of potentially equal importance is the impact of pesticides on air quality. Pesticide volatilisation is a major dissipation route for a wide variety of pesticides used in agriculture (Caro and Taylor, 1971; Farmer et al, 1974; Spencer and Farmer, 1980). Two modes of pesticide entry into the atmosphere are volatilization from soil and plant surfaces, and the physical transport from wind erosion of soil particles on which pesticides were adsorbed onto the soil particulate surface.
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Prueger, J.H., Hatfield, J.L., Sauer, T.J. (1997). Estimation of metolachlor volatilization from agricultural fields using a micrometeorological approach. In: Rosen, D., Tel-Or, E., Hadar, Y., Chen, Y. (eds) Modern Agriculture and the Environment. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 71. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5418-5_10
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