Soil Block (IMAGE)

Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau

Soil Block

Caption

Pesticides are deposited on vegetation and in the topsoil outside of cultivated areas. This pollutes plants and animals. 

Credit

RPTU, Ulrike Eberius - multimedia-atelier.de

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The graphic may be used in the context of the study “Current-use pesticides in vegetation, topsoil and water reveal contaminated landscapes of the Upper Rhine Valley, Germany”.

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