naa a22 4500 510750168 CHVBK 20180411083101.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11270-013-1701-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11270-013-1701-3 Horticultural Use of Copper-Based Fungicides Has Not Increased Copper Concentrations in Sediments in the Mid- and Upper Yarra Valley [Elektronische Daten] [Adam Wightwick, George Croatto, Suzanne Reichman, Neal Menzies, Vincent Pettigrove, Graeme Allinson] The use of Cu-based fungicide can pose a risk to nearby surface water bodies due to the run-off of accumulated Cu from agricultural soils. In 2008, we conducted a reconnaissance survey of the presence and concentration of copper in sediments at 18 sites within the Yarra River Catchment, an important horticultural production system in south-eastern Australia. Observed Cu concentrations in sediment samples from the study sites (mean (95% confidence interval) 12.0 (10.6-13.6)  mg/kg dry weight) were similar to the concentrations present in the samples from the reference sites (mean (95% confidence interval) 12.0 (6.7-16.8)  mg/kg dry weight). The data on Cu and other metals in the sediments suggest that that there is unlikely to have been wide spread, diffuse, off-site transport of Cu from the soils of horticultural properties to nearby surface waterways in the Yarra River Catchment and that that observed sediment metal concentrations are unlikely to pose an ecological risk to sediment-dwelling organisms at the study sites. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Copper-based fungicides nationallicence Catchment nationallicence Horticulture nationallicence Sediment nationallicence Environmental risk nationallicence Wightwick Adam School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, 4072, QLD, Australia aut Croatto George Future Farming Systems Research, Department of Primary Industries, Ernest Jones Drive, 3085, Macleod, VIC, Australia aut Reichman Suzanne School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, 3001, Melbourne, VIC, Australia aut Menzies Neal School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, 4072, QLD, Australia aut Pettigrove Vincent Centre for Aquatic Pollution Identification and Management (CAPIM), Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, 30 Flemington Road, 3010, Parkville, VIC, Australia aut Allinson Graeme Future Farming Systems Research, Department of Primary Industries, 2a Bellarine Highway, PO BOX 114, 3225, Queenscliff, VIC, Australia aut Water, Air, & Soil Pollution Springer Netherlands 224/12(2013-12-01), 1-6 0049-6979 224:12<1 2013 224 11270 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1701-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1701-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wightwick Adam School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, 4072, QLD, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Croatto George Future Farming Systems Research, Department of Primary Industries, Ernest Jones Drive, 3085, Macleod, VIC, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Reichman Suzanne School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, 3001, Melbourne, VIC, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Menzies Neal School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, 4072, QLD, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pettigrove Vincent Centre for Aquatic Pollution Identification and Management (CAPIM), Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, 30 Flemington Road, 3010, Parkville, VIC, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Allinson Graeme Future Farming Systems Research, Department of Primary Industries, 2a Bellarine Highway, PO BOX 114, 3225, Queenscliff, VIC, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Water, Air, & Soil Pollution Springer Netherlands 224/12(2013-12-01), 1-6 0049-6979 224:12<1 2013 224 11270 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer