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- Veterinary antibiotics, particularly sulfamethazine, were studied for their impact on ammonia (NH) volatilization in paddy fields using different fertilizer types.
- Results showed that while sulfamethazine didn't influence NH volatilization patterns overall, it significantly increased the volatilization rate during the topdressing stage, especially when pig manure was used.
- The study highlights the importance of addressing the environmental impacts of veterinary antibiotics in agriculture, as increased NH volatilization is linked to higher soil urease activity and nitrogen content.
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Veterinary antibiotics have been widely detected in croplands due to the application of animal excrements as fertilizer. However, their effects on ammonia (NH) volatilization remain unclear. A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of sulfamethazine on NH volatilization from a paddy field when conventional synthetic fertilizer or manure was applied as basal fertilizer. Five different treatments were conducted in this study: without application of fertilizers and antibiotics (CK), compound fertilizer used as basal fertilizer with and without the addition of sulfamethazine (CF+SD and CF respectively), and pig manure used as base fertilizer with and without the addition of sulfamethazine (CM+SD and CM respectively). Urea was used for topdressing in the CF, CF+SD, CM, and CM+SD treatments. The results showed that regardless of the fertilizer type applied, sulfamethazine did not affect the seasonal pattern of NHvolatilization. However, it promoted the NH volatilization rate in the topdressing stage significantly (<0.01). During the observation period, the proportions of applied N lost as NH-N in the CF+SD and CM+SD treatments were 1.65 and 2.78 times higher than those in the CF and CM treatments, respectively. The promoting effect of sulfamethazine was more obvious in the pig manure treatment than in the compound fertilizer treatment. Sulfamethazine significantly increased the soil urease activity (<0.05). Furthermore, the NH volatilization rate was positively correlated with urease activity and soil ammonia nitrogen content (<0.05). This indicates that sulfamethazine can increase the NH volatilization rate by changing the soil urease activity and inorganic nitrogen content. Controlling the misuse of veterinary antibiotics and environmental and ecological risks posed by the antibiotic residues in farmland excrements are urgent problems in China that need to be solved.
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