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Land Use and Riparian Effects on Prairie Wetland Sediment Properties and Herbicide Sorption Coefficients
Author(s) -
Xu Dani,
Meyer Sheila,
Gaultier Jeanette,
Farenhorst Annemieke,
Pennock Dan
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of environmental quality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.888
H-Index - 171
eISSN - 1537-2537
pISSN - 0047-2425
DOI - 10.2134/jeq2008.0357
Subject(s) - wetland , sorption , environmental science , sediment , hydrology (agriculture) , riparian zone , environmental chemistry , drainage basin , trifluralin , total organic carbon , agronomy , ecology , chemistry , geology , pesticide , geography , geomorphology , biology , geotechnical engineering , cartography , organic chemistry , adsorption , habitat
Sorption of commonly used herbicides by wetland sediment can provide important information for herbicide fate modeling. The influence of sediment properties on herbicide sorption as a result of different land uses in the wetland catchment is unclear. We examined the effects of land use on the physiochemical properties of wetland sediments and the associations between these sediment properties and herbicide sorption characteristics. Bottom sediments were sampled in 0‐ to 5‐ and 5‐ to 10‐cm sections from 17 wetlands under five different land use classes: (i) ephemeral wetlands with no riparian vegetation in a cultivated catchment (ECNR), (ii) ephemeral wetlands with riparian vegetation in a cultivated catchment (ECR), (iii) ephemeral wetlands in a grassland catchment established 4 yr ago (E4G), (iv) ephemeral wetlands in a brome grass catchment established 20 yr ago (E20G), and (v) semi‐permanent (SP) wetlands in a multiple–land‐use catchment. Sediments were analyzed for total organic carbon (TOC), total inorganic carbon (TIC), pH, electrical conductivity, exchangeable cations (EXCAT), total cation exchangeable capacity (CEC), and percent clay (%clay). Sediment herbicide sorption partition coefficient ( Kd ) was measured for trifluralin, atrazine, 2,4‐D, and glyphosate. The sorption of the herbicides in the sediment increased in the order of 2,4‐D < atrazine < glyphosate < trifluralin. The sorption of 2,4‐D, atrazine, and trifluralin was positively correlated to TOC, EXCAT, and CEC but negatively correlated to %clay. Glyphosate sorption was negatively correlated to pH, TIC, EXCAT, and %clay. Overall, wetland sediments that were recently cultivated (ECNR and E4G) had lower TOC, TIC, EC, EXCAT, CEC, and Kd values (2,4‐D, trifluralin, and atrazine) than sediments that had not been recently cultivated (ECR, E20G, and SP). The ECR wetland sediments had the largest Kd for all four herbicides, suggesting that land use and riparian vegetation have a significant impact on herbicide sorption.