Environmental Fate Modelling of Pesticides

Introduction
MATHEMATICAL PRELIMINARIES
Ordinary Differential Equations
Partial Differential Equations
Geostatistics
KINETICS
Linear Models
Nonlinear Models
Kinetics of Dose-Response
Environmental Covariates
PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN KINETIC MODELS
Problem Statement
Models in Explicit Form
Models in Form of Ordinary Differential Equations
TRANSPORT AND REACTIONS IN THE SOIL
Water Movement
Applications of the Convection Dispersion Equation
Coupling of Nonlinear Kinetics and Transport
Soil Temperature Fields
PARAMETERS FOR WATER TRANSPORT MODELS
Pedotransfer Functions for Water Retention Curves and Saturated Hydraulic Conductivities
Inverse Problems in Partial Differential Equations
Worked Examples
REGIONALIZATION
Transport Processes in Random Environments
The Concept of Random Soil Columns
Microscale Variation of Spatial Structure
Effective Parameters
Macroscale Variation
FUZZY-Approaches
Appendix
References