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  • Effects of atrazine and alachlor on self-purification processes in receiving streams
    Zagorc-Končan, Jana
    In recent years many waterways in Slovenia have been subjacted to an increased loading with pesticides due to intensification of agriculture. The most widely used herbicides are atrazine and alachlor ... and they were detected in some rivers and even in ground water. Therefore the effects of atrazine and alachlor on selfpurification processes were investigated. The basic selfpurification processes studied were biodegradation of organic substances and photosynthesis and growth of algae. The inhibiting effect of pesticides on the process of biodegradation of organic pollutants was evaluated by the use of laboratory river model and mathematical modelling. The harmful impacts of pesticides on aquatic autotrophic organisms were assessed by measurement of net assimilation inhibition (24-h acute toxicity test) as well as growth inhibition - chlorophyll - a content (72-h chronic toxicity test) of algae Scenedesmus subspicatus. The results obtained demonstrate that atrazine and alachlor in concentrations found in our rivers have practically no effect on biodegrading heterotrophic organisms, while their adverse effect on algae is quite considerable.
    Source: Water science and technology. - ISSN 0273-1223 (Vol. 33, no. 6, 1996, str. 181-187)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 1996
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 17907205

source: Water science and technology. - ISSN 0273-1223 (Vol. 33, no. 6, 1996, str. 181-187)
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