S. Houot et al., EXPERIMENTAL-TECHNIQUES TO STUDY THE FATE OF ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN SOILS IN RELATION TO THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH SOIL ORGANIC-CONSTITUENTS, Analusis, 25(9-10), 1997, pp. 41-45
The fete of organic pollutants such as pesticides in soils is largely
governed by their interactions with sail organic matter. Most of the t
echniques used in the study of soil organic matter can be adapted to t
he study of pollutant behavior in soil; examples of physical and chemi
cal fractionation techniques and sail microbial biomass measurements a
re presented hereafter.