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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 693, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.380
Keywords
Bisphenol A; Nonylphenol; Earthworm; C-14 tracer; Degradation; Bound residues
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21661132004, 41571130062, 21477052]
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [SPP 1090]
- Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Project of CAS [YJKYYQ20170058]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS [2017362]
- China Scholarship Council [201804910070]
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Large amounts of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) including bisphenol A (BPA) and nonylphenol (NP) are released into the soil due to the application of biosolids. Earthworms are the predominant biomass in many terrestrial ecosystems and profoundly influence the physicochemical and biological properties of soils. However, information about the effects of earthworm activities on the behaviors of EDCs in soil is still limited. Here, the effects of earthworms on mineralization, degradation, and bound residue formation of BPA and NP were investigated using the C-14 tracer technique. The results showed that earthworms did not affect mineralization of BPA, but significantly inhibited bound residue formation of BPA and changed the size distribution of BPA residues within humic substances. Regarding NP, earthworms significantly inhibited mineralization and bound residue formation, and thus significantly promoted the degradation of NP and NP's metabolites in soil. After nine days of incubation, 75% and 46% of the initially applied( 14)C-BPA and( 14)C-NP were already present in bound residues, respectively, indicating that the major route of degradation of BPA and NP in soil was bound-residue formation. Among total C-14-BPA or C-14-NP residues accumulated in earthworms, bound residues were also predominant (>50%). implying that risk assessment of EDCs based on their concentrations of free form in earthworms might be significantly underestimated. Taken together, our results suggest that fate of EDCs in soil not only depended on their physicochemical properties but also was intensively affected by earthworm activities, underlining that effects of earthworms should be considered when evaluating environmental behavior and potential risk of EDCs in soil. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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