Human and veterinary antibiotics occur widely in soil ecosystems and pose a serious threat to soil health. Landscape structure can be linked to Earth surface processes and anthropogenic footprints and may influence the variability of antibiotics in soil. In this study, an improved landscape source-sink model was used to characterize source-sink structures using the location-weighted landscape index (LWLI), which can be linked to antibiotic seasonality. The topographic wetness index was employed to identify source and sink landscapes, which represent antibiotic transport pathways via topography-driven hydrological processes. The results indicate that LWLI values and antibiotic seasonality are typically higher in farmland soils than in forest and orchard soils. LWLI values exhibit significant positive correlations with antibiotic seasonality in soils (R: 0.33-0.58). Furthermore, landscape source-sink structures have a significant influence on antibiotic seasonality between winter and other seasons in farmland soils; however, these structures affect antibiotic seasonality between summer and other seasons in forest and orchard soils. The results of this study indicate that water movement regulated by landscape structure may play a crucial role in influencing antibiotic seasonality in soils at the watershed scale, and the landscape source-sink model can be used to quantitatively evaluate antibiotic seasonality in soil environment.
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