Epilithic biofilms as a discriminating matrix for long-term and growing season pesticide contamination in the aquatic environment: Emphasis on glyphosate and metabolite AMPA

The indiscriminate use of pesticides represents high ecological risk in aquatic systems. Recently, the inclusion of epilithic biofilms as a reactive matrix has shown potential in diagnosing the health of water resources. The objective of this study was to use multiple matrices (water, suspended sedi...

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Autores principales: Fernandes, Gracieli, Aparicio, Virginia Carolina, De Geronimo, Eduardo, Prestes, Osmar Damian, Zanella, Renato, Ebling, Ederson, Bolzan Parisi, Pedro, Mollmann, Victor Hugo Dos Santos, Reichert, José Miguel, Dos Santos, Danilo Rheinheimer
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Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/16010
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723049409
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166315
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author Fernandes, Gracieli
Aparicio, Virginia Carolina
De Geronimo, Eduardo
Prestes, Osmar Damian
Zanella, Renato
Ebling, Ederson
Bolzan Parisi, Pedro
Mollmann, Victor Hugo Dos Santos
Reichert, José Miguel
Dos Santos, Danilo Rheinheimer
author_browse Aparicio, Virginia Carolina
Bolzan Parisi, Pedro
De Geronimo, Eduardo
Dos Santos, Danilo Rheinheimer
Ebling, Ederson
Fernandes, Gracieli
Mollmann, Victor Hugo Dos Santos
Prestes, Osmar Damian
Reichert, José Miguel
Zanella, Renato
author_facet Fernandes, Gracieli
Aparicio, Virginia Carolina
De Geronimo, Eduardo
Prestes, Osmar Damian
Zanella, Renato
Ebling, Ederson
Bolzan Parisi, Pedro
Mollmann, Victor Hugo Dos Santos
Reichert, José Miguel
Dos Santos, Danilo Rheinheimer
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description The indiscriminate use of pesticides represents high ecological risk in aquatic systems. Recently, the inclusion of epilithic biofilms as a reactive matrix has shown potential in diagnosing the health of water resources. The objective of this study was to use multiple matrices (water, suspended sediments, and biofilms) to discriminate contamination degrees in catchments with long and recent history of intensive pesticide use and to monitor growing season pesticides transfer to watercourses. Two catchments were monitored: one representative of “modern agriculture” in a subtropical environment, and another representative of recent agricultural expansion over the Pampa Biome in subtropical Brazil. Glyphosate and AMPA were accumulated in the biofilms and were detected at all sites and at all monitoring times, in concentrations ranging from 195 to 7673 μg kg−1 and from 225 to 4180 μg kg−1, respectively. Similarly, the fungicide tebuconazole has always been found in biofilms. The biofilms made it possible to discriminate the long-term history of pesticide use in the catchments and even to identify the influx pulses of pesticides immediately after their application to crops, which was not possible with active water sampling and even with suspended sediment monitoring. It is strongly recommended that, in regions with intensive cultivation of soybeans and other genetically modified crops, the presence of glyphosate and its metabolite AMPA be permanently monitored, a practice still very scarce in the literature.
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spelling INTA160102023-11-27T10:27:05Z Epilithic biofilms as a discriminating matrix for long-term and growing season pesticide contamination in the aquatic environment: Emphasis on glyphosate and metabolite AMPA Fernandes, Gracieli Aparicio, Virginia Carolina De Geronimo, Eduardo Prestes, Osmar Damian Zanella, Renato Ebling, Ederson Bolzan Parisi, Pedro Mollmann, Victor Hugo Dos Santos Reichert, José Miguel Dos Santos, Danilo Rheinheimer Contaminación Ambiente Acuático Acumulación Plaguicidas Glifosato Contamination Aquatic Environment Accumulation Pesticides Glyphosate The indiscriminate use of pesticides represents high ecological risk in aquatic systems. Recently, the inclusion of epilithic biofilms as a reactive matrix has shown potential in diagnosing the health of water resources. The objective of this study was to use multiple matrices (water, suspended sediments, and biofilms) to discriminate contamination degrees in catchments with long and recent history of intensive pesticide use and to monitor growing season pesticides transfer to watercourses. Two catchments were monitored: one representative of “modern agriculture” in a subtropical environment, and another representative of recent agricultural expansion over the Pampa Biome in subtropical Brazil. Glyphosate and AMPA were accumulated in the biofilms and were detected at all sites and at all monitoring times, in concentrations ranging from 195 to 7673 μg kg−1 and from 225 to 4180 μg kg−1, respectively. Similarly, the fungicide tebuconazole has always been found in biofilms. The biofilms made it possible to discriminate the long-term history of pesticide use in the catchments and even to identify the influx pulses of pesticides immediately after their application to crops, which was not possible with active water sampling and even with suspended sediment monitoring. It is strongly recommended that, in regions with intensive cultivation of soybeans and other genetically modified crops, the presence of glyphosate and its metabolite AMPA be permanently monitored, a practice still very scarce in the literature. EEA Balcarce Fil: Fernandes, Gracieli. Federal University of Santa Maria. Soils Department Roraima Avenue; Brasil. Fil: Aparicio, Virginia Carolina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce; Argentina. Fil: De Gerónimo, Eduardo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce; Argentina. Fil: Prestes, Osmar Damian. Federal University of Santa Maria, Chemistry Department; Brasil. Fil: Zanella, Renato. Federal University of Santa Maria, Chemistry Department; Brasil. Fil: Ebling, Ederson. Federal University of Santa Maria. Soils Department Roraima Avenue; Brasil. Fil: Bolzan Parisi, Pedro. Federal University of Santa Maria. Soils Department Roraima Avenue; Brasil. Fil: Mollmann, Victor Hugo Dos Santos. Federal University of Santa Maria. Graduate Program in Animal Biodiversity; Brasil. Fil: Reichert, José Miguel. Federal University of Santa Maria. Soils Department Roraima Avenue; Brasil. Fil: Dos Santos, Danilo Rheinheimer. Federal University of Santa Maria. Soils Department Roraima Avenue; Brasil. 2023-11-27T10:22:45Z 2023-11-27T10:22:45Z 2023-11 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/16010 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723049409 1879-1026 (online) 0048-9697 (print) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166315 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Elsevier Science of The Total Environment 900 : 16631520 (November 2023)
spellingShingle Contaminación
Ambiente Acuático
Acumulación
Plaguicidas
Glifosato
Contamination
Aquatic Environment
Accumulation
Pesticides
Glyphosate
Fernandes, Gracieli
Aparicio, Virginia Carolina
De Geronimo, Eduardo
Prestes, Osmar Damian
Zanella, Renato
Ebling, Ederson
Bolzan Parisi, Pedro
Mollmann, Victor Hugo Dos Santos
Reichert, José Miguel
Dos Santos, Danilo Rheinheimer
Epilithic biofilms as a discriminating matrix for long-term and growing season pesticide contamination in the aquatic environment: Emphasis on glyphosate and metabolite AMPA
title Epilithic biofilms as a discriminating matrix for long-term and growing season pesticide contamination in the aquatic environment: Emphasis on glyphosate and metabolite AMPA
title_full Epilithic biofilms as a discriminating matrix for long-term and growing season pesticide contamination in the aquatic environment: Emphasis on glyphosate and metabolite AMPA
title_fullStr Epilithic biofilms as a discriminating matrix for long-term and growing season pesticide contamination in the aquatic environment: Emphasis on glyphosate and metabolite AMPA
title_full_unstemmed Epilithic biofilms as a discriminating matrix for long-term and growing season pesticide contamination in the aquatic environment: Emphasis on glyphosate and metabolite AMPA
title_short Epilithic biofilms as a discriminating matrix for long-term and growing season pesticide contamination in the aquatic environment: Emphasis on glyphosate and metabolite AMPA
title_sort epilithic biofilms as a discriminating matrix for long term and growing season pesticide contamination in the aquatic environment emphasis on glyphosate and metabolite ampa
topic Contaminación
Ambiente Acuático
Acumulación
Plaguicidas
Glifosato
Contamination
Aquatic Environment
Accumulation
Pesticides
Glyphosate
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/16010
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723049409
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166315
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