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Environmental and Ecological Impacts of Manure Application to Farmland

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Earth Science and Medical Geology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 2877

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Prof. Dr. Xiangyu Tang

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College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China
Interests: soil pollution; antibiotics; antibiotic resistance genes; pesticides; transport; model; catchment; hydrological processes
Prof. Dr. Yiming Wang

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Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Interests: bacterial community; antibiotic resistance gene; plant growth-promoting bacteria; organic manure
Dr. Fenghua Wang

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Hebei Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Ecological Construction, Hebei Experimental Teaching Demonstrating Center of Geographical Science, School of Geographical Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, China
Interests: antibiotics; antibiotic resistance genes; bacterial community

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Land application of animal manure is a highly recommended traditional agricultural practice. In addition to the well-recognized benefits, the introduction of antibiotics and antibiotic resistome via manure amendment to farmland may have profound effects on the soil microbial community and its functions in nutrient biogeochemical processes and may lead to the pollution of soils and receiving water bodies by antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), and pathogens. There is clearly a need to evaluate the environmental and ecological impacts of manure application to farmland from various aspects. This Special Issue focuses on state-of-the-art knowledge on important topics including (but not limited to) the effects of manure application on the soil microbial community and its roles in nutrient cycling; the occurrences of antibiotics, ARGs, and pathogens in soil–plant systems under human utilization and interferences; the transport of antibiotics, ARGs, and pathogens in soils under varying environmental conditions; and mitigation measures of soil contamination by antibiotics, ARGs, and pathogens.

Prof. Dr. Xiangyu Tang
Prof. Dr. Yiming Wang
Dr. Fenghua Wang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • antibiotics
  • antibiotic resistance genes
  • pathogens
  • soil contamination
  • soil remediation
  • fate
  • transport
  • dissemination
  • soil biogeochemical processes

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Influence of Manure as a Complex Mixture on Soil Sorption of Pharmaceuticals—Studies with Selected Chemical Components of Manure
by Sören Thiele-Bruhn and Wei Zhang
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(12), 6154; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph20126154 - 16 Jun 2023
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Pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) enter soil with organic waste materials such as manure. Such complex substrates differently affect PhACs’ soil sorption. For the first time, batch experiments were conducted using five selected chemicals as model constituents to elucidate the effects. Urea, phosphate (KH [...] Read more.
Pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) enter soil with organic waste materials such as manure. Such complex substrates differently affect PhACs’ soil sorption. For the first time, batch experiments were conducted using five selected chemicals as model constituents to elucidate the effects. Urea, phosphate (KH2PO4), acetic acid, phenol and nonadecanoic acid (C:19) altered the sorption strength and/or nonlinearity of sulfadiazine, caffeine, and atenolol in an arable Cambisol topsoil. The nonlinear Freundlich model best described sorption. Overall, the PhACs’ Freundlich coefficients (sorption strength) increased in the sequence urea < phosphate < phenol < C:19 < acetic acid, while the Freundlich exponents largely decreased, indicating increasing sorption specificity. The effects on sulfadiazine and caffeine were rather similar, but in many cases different from atenolol. Phosphate mobilized sulfadiazine and caffeine and urea mobilized sulfadiazine, which was explained by sorption competition resulting from specific preference of similar sorption sites. Soil sorbed phenol strongly increased the sorption of all three PhACs; phenolic functional groups are preferred sorption sites of PhACs in soil. The large increase in sorption of all PhACs by acetic acid was attributed to a loosening of the soil organic matter and thus the creation of additional sorption sites. The effect of C:19 fatty acid, however, was inconsistent. These results help to better understand the sorption of PhACs in soil–manure mixtures. Full article
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New Models for Estimating the Sorption of Sulfonamide and Tetracycline Antibiotics in Soils
by Jinsheng Hu, Xiangyu Tang, Minghui Qi and Jianhua Cheng
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(24), 16771; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph192416771 - 14 Dec 2022
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Sulfonamides (SAs) and tetracyclines (TCs) are two classes of widely used antibiotics. There is a lack of easy models for estimating the parameters of antibiotic sorption in soils. In this work, a dataset of affinity coefficients (Kf and Kd) [...] Read more.
Sulfonamides (SAs) and tetracyclines (TCs) are two classes of widely used antibiotics. There is a lack of easy models for estimating the parameters of antibiotic sorption in soils. In this work, a dataset of affinity coefficients (Kf and Kd) of seven SA/TC antibiotics (i.e., sulfachlorpyridazine, sulfamethazine, sulfadiazine, sulfamethoxazole, oxytetracycline, tetracycline, and chlortetracycline) and associated soil properties was generated. Correlation analysis of these data showed that the affinity coefficients of the SAs were predominantly affected by soil organic matter and cation exchange capacity, while those of the TCs were largely affected by soil organic matter and pH. Pedotransfer functions for estimating Kf and Kd were built by multiple linear regression analysis and were satisfactorily validated. Their performances would be better for soils having higher organic matter content and lower pH. These pedotransfer functions can be used to aid environmental risk assessment, prioritization of antibiotics and identification of vulnerable soils. Full article
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