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DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.05.045
Title (Primary) Stable carbon isotope fractionation during the biodegradation of lambda-cyhalothrin
Author Shen, X.; Xu, Z.; Zhang, X.; Yang, F.
Source Titel Science of the Total Environment
Year 2015
Department WANA
Volume 532
Page From 415
Page To 419
Language englisch
Keywords Lambda-cyhalothrin; Biodegradation; Soil; Compound-specific stable isotope analysis; Carbon isotope fractionation
UFZ wide themes RU2;
Abstract In this study, the microbial degradation of lambda-cyhalothrin in soil was investigated using compound-specific stable isotope analysis. The results revealed that lambda-cyhalothrin was biodegraded in soil under laboratory conditions. The half-lives of lambda-cyhalothrin were determined to be 49 and 161 days in non-sterile and sterile soils spiked with 2 mg/kg lambda-cyhalothrin and 84 and 154 days in non-sterile and sterile soils spiked with 10 mg/kg lambda-cyhalothrin, respectively. The biodegradation of lambda-cyhalothrin resulted in carbon isotope fractionation, which shifted from − 29.0‰ to − 26.5‰ in soil spiked with 2 mg/kg lambda-cyhalothrin, and to − 27.5‰ with 10 mg/kg lambda-cyhalothrin. A relationship was established between the stable carbon isotope fraction and the residual concentrations of lambda-cyhalothrin by the Rayleigh equation in which the carbon isotope enrichment factor ε of the microbial degradation of lambda-cyhalothrin in the soil was calculated as − 2.53‰. This study provides an approach to quantitatively evaluate the biodegradation of lambda-cyhalothrin in soil in field studies.
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Shen, X., Xu, Z., Zhang, X., Yang, F. (2015):
Stable carbon isotope fractionation during the biodegradation of lambda-cyhalothrin
Sci. Total Environ. 532 , 415 - 419 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.05.045