Suzuki_2004_J.Pestic.Sci_29_33

The dissipation rates of dimethoate, fenobucarb, flutolanil, simazine, prometryn and alachlor were compared among an andosol and a gray lowland soil subjected to different fertilizing practices over a 20 year period. The rate constants for dissipation of most pesticides per biomass carbon, biomass nitrogen and esterase activity among the plots in each soil were less variable than the corresponding rate constants, indicating that the dissipation depended on microbial amount and activity. The rate constants in the gray lowland soil were similar to or greater than those in the andosol, despite the smaller values of microbial amount and activity in the former. This is due to the larger water soluble fraction/acetone soluble fraction ratios in the former. The long-term successive applications of organic fertilizers were less effective in the dissipation for the gray lowland soil than the andosol. This is likely to result from a less effective accumulation of microbial biomass in the former.