Facilitated transport of pesticides

TABLE 3.2. PARAMETERS DESCRIBING LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TURBIDITY (IN NTU) AND HERBICIDE CONCENTRATIONS (PENDIMETHALIN: CP OR IOXYNIL: CI), AND BETWEEN TURBIDITY AND CONCENTRATION OF SOIL PARTICLES (CS): C = α.·NTU+ β. N=NUMBER OF OBSERVATIONS, r2=COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION. TABEL 3.2. BESKRIVELSE AF LINEÆR RELATION MELLEM TURBIDITET (I NTU) OG HERBICID KONCENTRATIONER (PENDIMETHALIN: CP OG IOXYNIL: CI), OG MELLEM TURBIDITET OG KONCENTRATION AF JORD-PARTIKLER (CS): C = α.·NTU+ β. N=ANTAL OBSERVATIONER, r2=KORRELATIONSKOEFFICIENT. Pesticide – Turbidity Dependent variable Season Event No. Concentration range, µg l-1   n r2 α 10-2 µg l-1 NTU- 1 β 10-2 µg/l Pendi- methalin, Cp 1999/00 1 0.00-12.6 12 0.94 3.2 (0.3) *** -3 (38) ns 2 0.00-2.3 12 0.62 1.9 (0.5) ** -13 (29) ns 3 0.00-0.30 11 0.45 0.19 (0.07) * 0 (4) ns 2000/01 1 0.05-0.91 7 0.98 0.74 (0.05) *** 11 (3) * 2 0.05-3.0 8 0.91 0.74 (0.10) *** -9 (19) ns 3   0.09-1.5 6 0.74 0.27 (0.08) *   20 (18) ns 4 0.00-0.08 6 0.78 0.06 (0.02) *   1 (1) ns Ioxynil, Ci 2000/01 1 0.00-0.27 7 0.13 -0.09 (0.13) ns 10 (6) ns 2 0.00-0.51 8 0.30 0.08 (0.05) ns 7 (10) ns 3 0.00-0.24 6 0.10 -0.02 (0.02) ns 7 (5) ns 4 0.00-0.00 6 - 0.00 (0.00) 0 (0) Particle concentration – turbidity Dependent variable Concentration range, mg l-1   n r2 α mg l-1 NTU-1 β mg l-1 Particle conc., Cs 0-685 77 0.95 0.87 (0.02) *** -3.3 (3.3) ns : Standard errors in (). Suffix shows the result of t-test for the hypothesis: parameter=0. ns: non significant; *, ** or ***: significant at the 95, 99 or 99.9 % level.